A Norwegian Summer Holiday Part 1: Travel and Oslo Ferries

Nice to see the start of your holiday. Off to Aviemore in two weeks for our summer hols before harvest starts on the farm.

Edinburgh airport parking tip. Stop at Halbeath Park & Ride just off Junction 3 on the M90 (free) and get the airport bus (also free once you get a bus pass). Can stop at the P&R for over a week. Do not go on to Ferrytoll P&R as the time limit there is a week. Hope you made it to the Fran (Amundsen) and Kon-Tiki (Thor Hyerdal) museums

"Battle Janissary Orchestra" translation is hilarious. Kampen is a place on the east side of Oslo, not very far from the downtown. A beautiful place most turists never visit, but the area are full of wooden buildings. We have several areas like this in Oslo: Kampen, Rodeløkka, Damsredet (with Telthusbakken), Sagene and several others. These areas grew up outside the city in the 18th and 19th century and then later became a part of the city. "Kampen Janitsjar" are one of the best orchestras in Oslo and Norway

We were only just there 2 weeks ago. We bought the 24 hours passes twice and got off on the islands for a walk around. We hired an ID3 for a week and the charging was pretty good. The UNO X stations were only 2.6NOK/kWh and Tesla were about 5 NOK. The disappointing thing is the street 7kW chargers have a limit of 3 hours, so you can’t charge up whilst you’re exploring the city.

Even as a Norwegian, I have to say that the prices you are paying are outrageous. Next time you book a hotel and flight, I recommend using a VPN to set your location to Norway.