Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Tromsø

Tromso! This is the name of the town up there in the north of Norway. The story of how we decided to go there is pretty short: one colleague told me that there is such an offer from AirBaltic side for EuroBonus points owners. In some several minutes we together with Ernesta decided to go there and got tickets at the same time. Only then we found out there we are going to fly :)



Anyway, shortly on it: we spent one night in Riga on thursday evening. We booked a room in hotel called something like Best Hotel Riga.. Quite ambitious I would say... Or - far away from the truth :) But forget it, next morning we went to Riga oldtown and even if I'm here for maybe fourth or fifth time already, but I still must admit that the oldtown is really great!



But as some boredom found us, we took a ride to the seaside - Jurmala. I'm still wondering of why the sea is that special for people. But those couple of hour walking on the shore was totally relaxed and perfect.



And finally we flew to the Tromso after this. Just need to mention that russian tourists are the worst ones which I've seen in my flights experience.. Drunk, loud and with absolutely no respect to others.. I don't want to make this long... so..

In Tromso we spent to days. First one was surprisingly warm - that's pretty insane feeling to walk on the snow and to be wear only t-shirts. However, as Tromso is nice, but quite small town, we wanted to spend as much time as possible being in the mountains. And as there is one close to the town and it has a cable car going up.. Here's what we did found there:


Wonderful, beautiful, glorious!

I also have to mention that our CS hosts Brynjulv and Ellen were just perfect and we are totally thankful for sharing their weekend with us. Food was good, we have our fridge full of brown norvegian cheese now. Reindeer and catfish was worth of trying as well.

Next day it was a bit rainy and quite cold, so museums was our choice of what to do. If you'll ever go to this place, visit Polar museum for sure! Even if we couldn't understand all what should be told there (norvegian has some similar words to Lithuanian, but anyway).. :)



P.S. You know, it is said that traveling is one of the best way to test your partner and yourself. I think me and Ernesta passed such test once again. And if was asked for a mark, I would give - excellent!



P.P.S. A bit more photos may be found in my profile @facebook