We made our way back to that area with the nice lake, not too far from Bodø. This time I managed to find a tree my size!
Stinkypaw completed this Inukshuk, just perfect for me! A nice way to end our little excursion around Bodø.
Of course, Stinkypaw went postal, again! Think about it, the lady at the library where she bought most of her cards, remembered her from three years ago! Same thing for the girl at the bakery! You know you've been often when...
This time, she almost managed to wrangle herself a mini meet-up with a Postcrossing member in Bodø! That member actually sent Stinkypaw an official card last year, and when she found out she was going back, she contacted that member and asked if they could meet. And they did. We ended up for a bite to eat at "Mon Ami" a French restaurant, wrote a few cards, and talked lots. That member was a timid but nice gal. We'll see if they keep in touch...
Everyday we were in Bodø Stinkypaw shopped for cards, she wrote cards daily and even tried that new feature on Postcrossing called "Travel Mode" which gives you an ID code from the country you're visiting. She was all happy to be in a "rare" country, and she actually sent forty official cards in the two weeks we were there.
Enjoying a moka from the bakery, in the same little apartment we had three years before! She actually left a few days prior to her husband to go to Oslo and attend a meet-up there. She was really looking forward to it, and it was fun! I got to see that lady we had met our last visit in Oslo, she's holding me next to the pile of cards signed that day, a few hundreds. They were 10 women attending, a nice group of ladies.
After all those cards, we took a walk in the port and went for some isk, we walked a bunch, but it was good... so I'm told!
On the way back, since Stinkypaw was alone, she decided to take some shots along the way... as we walk by the City Hall - a weird square shaped building, with an important role in the history of Oslo/Norway...
In the park along the main street, heading towards our hotel... One of the nice fountains...
It was actually VERY hot in Oslo at the time. The morning we left Bodø it was 9 degrees, after a plane ride of 1.5 hours we arrived in Oslo to 30 degrees. We went from winter to summer! She even had to buy herself a pair of shorts, it was so hot!
This statue was also along the way to our hotel, on the street (as it was three years ago too), one of many pieces of art we can find walking in Oslo, it's actually pretty nice to see all those big pieces just there on the streets for everyone to enjoy as they walk by!
One of the souvenir that was brought back, was this Norwegian duckie... my new pal!
On our last day, we enjoyed a cold drink on a terrasse and a bite to eat. The eat was a bit much, but the water was cold and the company was good, so a good way to close this visit back to Norway.
