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Day 4: Reunited with our backpacks (and having made the important realisation that you should always pack a spare pair of underwear in your carry-on luggage), we were ready to take on the world again.
But were we ready for a six hour drive northwards from oslo followed by a 14km walk around a fjord […]

Day 3: After passing through immigration in Oslo in record time, we descended to the baggage collection hall to find ourselves caught in a seething mass of inbound Norwegians moving as one towards the airport duty free store. “When in Oslo, do as the Oswegians do,” we thought, so we picked up what we thought […]

Day 3: A short walk from the Oslo Central train station, Anker Hostel was clean and central. As check in was at 3pm, we dropped our bags and headed off into the city.
It was a no frills hostel experience, with nothing in our room that couldn’t be cleaned with a fire hose and not so […]

Waiting at Bombay Airport we got talking to an interesting guy, Dr Jasper Graham-Jones.

Day 2: It was always going to a stretch making the connection in Heathrow - our flight from Mumbai landed an hour before the departure of our connecting flight to Oslo. What killed us in the end was the queue to pass through the security check a second time. By the time we made it […]

Day 1: Our first night out of Australia and the Residency Hotel Andheri lived up to our relatively low expectations for Asian budget airport hotels (it’s a tightly contested genre) and probably exceeded them in some aspects. What we really needed was sleep - and the hotel delivered.
Check-in was painless, staff were generally helpful […]

Day 1: Arriving in Mumbai was pretty much what we expected - chaotic. There was no obvious taxi rank but there was no shortage of hustlers to take us to our hotel.
It’s a matter of honour that we weren’t out of the airport for more than five minutes before we had our first dodgy […]

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