Norwegian weekend

Came a wonderful weekend. We went to the wedding of friends in Norway. These friends were at our wedding.

This is my fourth wedding in Norway, but the first on a purely Norwegian composition of the spouses. Show was very interesting, and too much reason to go to Norway it was impossible to miss.

Thus, the most that on there in the early morning on Friday we were sitting at the local airport to fly over the Gulf of Bothnia in the city of Stockholm, and from where, on another plane, waving to his native heart of Oslo.

The plane was unusual (operated by Danish Air Transport), « vintage » - t. e. with two screws and painted like a clown. If you try to start the engines, the captain kindly explained that the left propeller does not rotate and the reason that we now do a quick reboot the aircraft, and all will be fine! .

The wedding took place in the town of Huso Fjellgard ( which in English means mountain farmstead). Pretty interesting place to which it was necessary to get from Oslo little more than two hundred kilometers. In order to overcome them were a few options: train, bus or rental car. As a result, when all tickets were sold on the train, it was decided to rent a car, which was even cheaper.

So, on arrival in Oslo, we went to pick up our hire car. Gave a brand new Opel Corsa 1. 2 ( some luck lately on Opel ). To go to Norway is interesting, but tedious. The roads are narrow and have to constantly focus on the road. The rate is also small, so that, in addition, still sleepy. The machine does not rabotalprikurivatel (which for us is simply nonsense, and a force majeure ), so the navigation was dead in the middle of the road. I had to read the card, look at the signs and find the pole star. But in the end we arrived and drove the first. The rest of the people from all over Norway, gradually tightened during the day.

We had tried to take a walk in the mountains, but there is still snow and our event with a crunch in the snow, and this is the failed.

Saturday morning was a wonderful. Finally warmed up! .

During the day all went to church where the wedding took place. The priest continually, and even with humor, talking about different things wise and philosophical. After getting married then told her 'Ja' and everyone was satisfied and happy.

In the afternoon the celebratory lunch -dinner, at which all drank, ate, and, of course congratulated Novozhenov. Well, after Brandy was already, and other sweets in the form of a wedding cake. Fighting on the wedding cake was not and no one rushed. The Norwegians, that they take.

An acquaintance with interesting people.

A Norwegian boy talked about his seven-day journey on the Trans-Siberian Express from Moscow to Beijing. In my head srazunarisovalas picture ' of torture by Russian trains '. Although his story was not so terrible.
Still, he talked about how he was a student, for his master's study flew in the spec- plane which achieves short-term weightlessness during the flight from the curve of Kepler. They studied the behavior of fish in zero gravity. And interestingly enough, the experience was a success. Under the bottom of the aquarium set up a light source, and when the plane formed weightlessness, the fish swim upside down ( probably more accurate to say, fins ).

Met a Pole, whom the groom once violently banging the vodka, then bravely went to Russia. This Pole - a biologist and is engaged in various research. By the way, fluent in Russian. He is constantly on the move, including in Russia. He told me many stories about how he floated on the rivers in Siberia, the Siberian peasants and colorful features of Russian heartland.
He said that recently three days on skis crossed the Gulf of Bothnia near Oulu. And soon going on a fishing trip to Petropavlovsk -Kamchatsky.

In general, a trip was a success. I was even able to speak the local language, after five years nepraktikovaniya thereof.

Norway, as always, taxis, and invites us to her!.