A quiet morning once again at Ragnhild’s and Anders’ cozy home. Our main outing today will be to spend the evening with a friend and former colleague of John’s from St. John‘s, Mari Skaug, at her home just outside of Oslo in Kolbotn.
Ragnhild took us to Sandvika in the early afternoon for a short walk along the riverside, past the performing arts centre and to the shopping areas. After an ‘all-important’ is, or ice cream, she left us to enjoy the area for a while before hopping a train to Kolbotn. Once to Kolbotn, Mari picked us up.
It was interesting to see Mari’s lovely home. It was once two living areas, but she with her woodworking and decorating talents, has fixed it up beautifully. It is in a pretty part of the town, near to the train and shops with lots of trees and gardens to enjoy. Mari had a lovely dinner for us complete with a feast of local strawberries! We were honoured to meet Hannibal, her 70 year old European turtle, as well. We didn’t realize that turtles could live so long. Mari expects that he could well live to be 120 years old! He is really quite amazing, moves more quickly than you might expect and is very stong. Mari has had him for 45 years.
After dinner we made our way back to the local train station with Mari only to find that the train we had planned on taking was not running in the summer months … just when we thought we were understanding the Oslo area train system! We took a taxi instead to central Oslo station and then caught the regular train to Slependen where John and I walked home in the gentle rain to Ragnhild’s and Anders’.
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