ENROUTE TO GERMANY...

Day 197

Overnight stay on sleeper train, Bergen, Norway - Oslo, Norway
Oslo - Gottenburg, Norway
Gottenburg - Malmo, Sweden
Malmo - Copenhagen, Denmark
Final Destination: Hamburg, Germany

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Commiserations to all the Eagles fans!!! All i can say is......We'll all have to wait to get our WA team (Dockers) into the grandfinal next year!!! hehe

And to think..it's been 15 years or something since the Eagles lost to Collingwood! So that was a bit of a shock wasn't it??? Bet there are so sad, sorry heads about...

We were so looking forward to booking a hotel in the US too, with cable, drinking fosters, eating pies and barracking for WA!!! Our dream is shattered!!! Now the question is, do we or don't we still watch the grandfinal in US?......Of course yes!

Geelong to win?

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Onto more real things...it's 6.30am here now...

What a mammouth task we've just had...hanging around Bergen all day yesterday to catch the train here to Oslo at 11pm last night.

We checked out of our hostell yesterday (the gorgeous Montana Hostell which is situated on the mountain, so beautiful!) and then decided to go into Bergen, drop our packs off at the lockers in the train station, and look around Bergen again..to the fish markets, shopping mall, museum etc..

Well...we did that...and it's beautiful...but then....it started pouring down with rain!!! We escaped to the shopping mall and had our thai dinner (to celebrate the September birthdays!) and finished that at 5pm.

Our train didn't leave till 11pm...so what to do? It was pouring down with rain (apparently it rains in Bergen 275 days of the year!) and we didn't want to get soaked knowing we had a 7 hour journey to Oslo coming up...

So..we waited in the cold, in the train station, for 6 hours, with a mob of other poor cold souls....

And then caught our sleeper train....

And here we are in Oslo...now waiting for our next train! In another 3 hours!

We don't get to our destination, Hamburg, till almost midnight tonight...ohhhhh goshhh...

At least we're getting our money's worth on the Eurail!