That was the plan at least. I got nervous already at 2pm when I heard flights were cancelled at Heathrow, London UK and hoped it wouldn’t be the same here. I arrived to the airport in good time (8pm) and got my bagage checked in and past the safety control without a problem. Walking towards the gate, (8:30pm ish) I overheard other passengers also going to Trondheim, saying ” we have to find an other flight ” and I realised the flight was cancelled.
I went to pick up my suitcase and txted friends. I called one friend because my adhd brain needed to calm down. I realised quickly that it wouldn’t help to go home and try to sleep and call a taxi to be back at the airport around 7am. So I’m still at the airport.
Bought night snacks/ food and a espresso.
[Boring info, I ate and drank my coffee] Because the flight was cancelled by the airline they also got meca new ticket and a new time for departure.
New boarding time is 08:35am the 23rd, towards Oslo [one of few airports I hate]. Hopefully it will go well for my adhd [that’s why I hate big airports]. I am on my way up north, towards my brother and sister in law at #haltdalen south of Trondheim but north of Røros.
Walked to the arriving board to check if my new flight had got there with information. Walked past a good couch where I’m laying right now (23:40/11:40pm) I have set the alarm for “working alarm” at 06:30am and hoping I’ll manage to rest maybe sleep some. But the lights in the ceiling are quite bright… but I am tired!
11:40pm Sola airport, 22nd of December 24.
I woke up 04:30am from passangers walking past where I tried to sleep. Manage to rest 30 min more b4 I really needed the wc. I have maybe ‘slept’ 4 hours at the airport,
…already checked in my suitcase and got my double espresso. 06:30am and soon breakfast….
I’ll boarding in an hour (08:05am).
My pray now is to I stay awake when needed and can relax or eat at Gardermoen/ osl airport and that I don’t get migraine.
It’s Wednesday the 10th. I enjoy it’s my first day of my holiday.
It’s 11:40ish and the temperature is +19°C some sun most clouds. Just perfect! My friends I am visiting are at work and I enjoying there house and garden 😊
My bonus-bonus babysister and me.
My bonus-bonus baby sister came visiting me while I was in Frövi. We haven’t seen each since 2018 because of corona and closed borders.
We did everything we could to spend time together 😊❤️.
My sister under the water😆😆.
Me in the water 😊
Coffee outside on the porch waiting on the thunderstorm 😊.
Table games – ticket to ride.
We spent approxy nine hours together, coffee, swimming, dinner and table games with my friends, before she had to drive back home.
July 11th;
I woke up 06:30 am just couldn’t sleep more. Coffee alone in the kitchen 😊 and a bit later breakfast and bought my tickets for today’s journey.
I didn’t have the peace in my body to sit and wait in my friends home … walked down to the train station and waited there instead.
Frövi train station. 10am.
This train is very nice and fresh!
10:43am, train railway issues… waiting on a station to go forward to the next station. I don’t mind I have a ticket for the bus but the bus departure time is not until 12:25 pm which I really hope I make. This train arrival time was expected to be 12:09 pm. Let’s hope we make it 🤞🙏. We arrived 12:40 pm still good time to catch a bus towards Falun 😊 after a short walk from the train station to the bus hub.
Geografic museum in Borlänge, Dalarna.
Walked 5 minutes from the train station in Borlänge to the bus hub and waited on bus 152 towards Falun 1:10 pm
In Falun it’s a tiny walk, straight ahead from the bus hub to the pedestrian street. I arrived 1:35 pm.
The start of the pedestrian street in Falun.
pedestrian street and the square nearest the bus hub.
Approxy 1:40 – 1:50 pm. In this square, in one one the shopping mall it’s a farmacy and there I was going to meet my friend (this friend, I got to know when I was living here back in 2001 – 2004). I am staying in her place despite the fact that she won’t be home this weekend 😆😆, approxy 1:50 pm I was picked up by my oldest brother and heading towards their home.
This is Lake Runn.
It was +18,9°C in the water/lake 😊. Swimming temperature 😊.
This view is Summer for me! I have spent many Summer holidays here when the kids (my niece and nephews) were small 💜😍. Now two of them are young adults and the third is a teenager. It’s here I love to swim and hang out 😍. And today it was them, a family of five, and my 2nd brother and his wife there too (they live in Trøndelag Norway). And later on this evening friends of one of my nephew came. On top of that my head started to ‘boil’ and spinning – to much impressions for me 😔🤪. The positive side is that I know I will sleep heavy tonight 😊
The holiday started with an accident while walking Saga 😔.
And instead of waiting to catch a city bus 9.15pm I choose to catch a bus 8.15pm so I could go to the farmacy and buy things to clean my sore elbows before my night train departure 10.15pm
On the train
Arriving Kristiansand approxy 01:45am and leaving about 02:15am.
Slept approxy 3,5 hours on the train 🤪. Wok up 06:03am. Out in the morning sunshine but chill morning!
A cool bus! (From one of the villages not to far from Stavanger)
Arriving Kongsberg 06:12am, here it was bus for train departure 06:19am. Now on the bus towards Oslo my first destination on this holiday.
The library of Oslo.
It’s a distance of 550km, from Stavanger to Oslo (north east).
A really good breakfast at the train station in Oslo with a friend from my church network from when I lived here.
Fancinated that it took me three years to get here again! After I moved away. And even if I am not really in Oslo, I just had breakfast and changed buses 😉 here. I’m here for a short while.
Off to Örebro, 4 hours drive with the bus and I am gonna sleep what I didn’t sleep on the night train! A distance of 340km east from Oslo.
The border of Norway – Sweden
Årjäng.
Karlstad.
Two more hours on the bus from Karlstad to arrive to my second destination (but first where I’ll stay for 48 hours) 15 hours later from when my journey began 🤪😆🙈.
I arrived 2:25pm toÖrebro. Been very careful with my elbows all this journey! Managed anyway to hit the right elbow 😔 and then I tryed to lock my suitcase in a locker but oh no that didn’t work 🤬🤬🤬. I have than the second time today been a customer to Espressohouse 😆😆.
This time a Chai latte and a very fiber rich sandwich. Even if the best for me after 17 hours of traveling would been propper food like a pizza, kebab or a burger. If it hadn’t been for my elbows 🙈 I wouldn’t care.
The very fiber rich sandwich actually worked 😊
But my journey isn’t done yet 🙈😆. I will meet with my friend I’m staying with 4:30 pm, catch the last train for today towards Frövi a smaller village 200km north of Örebro.
Örebro train station.
Örebro train station from track 4 where we waited for our train.
Frövi.
After dinner and catch up time with the family I visit (which I haven’t seen in ten years! ) we played some table games.
What a crazy trip 🤪🤪 13 hours all together! Yes I will tell you everything about it.
This was the flight plan…
I went out of my door at 12.30pm June 29th to catch the local bus to catch the shuffle bus. Realizing the 🌡 is +26° ☀️☀️ and nearly no wind = 🥵🥵🥵🥵 for me. Got the first heatstroke waiting on the shuffle bus 🥵🤪🤢🤯.
…eventually got to the airport 13.30pm ish. Needed water, suger and than past the security control. No issues there.
The first tunnel out to the airplane was so so hot 🥵🥵 second heatstroke, not as big, hit me. (I wish I had a diagnose so people could understand me better). I sat with the AC on the whole way to Gardemoen to cool down once again.
From Sola, Stavanger airport to Gardemoen, Oslo.
Arrived /landed to Gardemoen 17.20/ 17.30pm, tryed to find my gate. Needed to cool down again, my head was boiling 🥵🥵🥵 from the heatstroke. I walkeded back and forth pasting gates and restaurants, tired, hungry and dizzy. Just wanted to eat, but nothing I liked… Ended up at a kiosk with a mix of a sandwich and a pizza. Warmed up as a pizza. After the pizza-sandwich I went to nearest wc to cool down my boiling head. Maybe 10 minutes later a good strong double espresso/americano. 😊
And the waiting at Gardemoen was planned to 3,5 hours which was long enough for me in this heat. But my flight got delayed with even 55min more 🤪🤪🤪
19.44pm Gardemoen June 29th.
The Lord gave me patience to not freakout.
From the air to landing at the airport of Værnes, Trondheim 20.35pm to walking in Trondheim at 21.45, buying an ice cream to catching the night train (leaving 23.15pm) towards Oslo, on the train for 1 hour.
At Støren train station m6 newest mother in law came and saved me 🤩🤩 from this super long day 🤪🤪. 00.10am. We drove to my sister in law’s house and arrived 01.22am (the 30st)
(I really nead a driving license!!)
Me and my sister in law were up to 03am 🤪🤪 talking. I found the bed, slept good and woke up the nxt day ready for helping out with the decoration for the Wedding party the 1st of July. The weather was much better for me this Friday (June 30th) 🌡⛅☁️🌧 +20°C .
The top picture is my sister in law, finishing her decoration. Decoration a barn between 12pm to 7pm ish.
The last hour before we actually could go home, I stumbled, landed on my right sad knee, which got even more sad 😖🤪, swollen and sore.
Saturday 1st of July = Wedding day and party in Trøndelag, Haltdalen Church and Wedding party at Nordpå fjellhotel.
Picture to the left: Haltdalen Church & wedding ceremony. The picture to the right: The Wedding party.
Sunday 2nd of July, delayed 50th party for my brother (who got married yesterday), for his exame (I think to become a preast) and my sister in law’s 35th birthday, with friends and family.
The evening was less stressful, less people and more enjoyable for me. I could pack, relax infront of the “telly” , I sat out in the garden for an hour cause it was to warm indoors for me 😆😆.
Monday July 4th. Traveling day.. woke up 07.30am. Got my coffee. Got ready to catch the bus towards Trondheim, which before I left home had planned to walk “all day” but becauce of the stumble on Friday wasn’t an option.
0900 am on the bus to Trondheim. 11.10 am in Trondheim, but I got off the bus to early 🤪🤪😆😆. On the other hand I got to walk in an aera I never seen before and I walked over a bridge, past the famous #Nidarosdomen , got into the city and found my way to Espressohouse. Bought me brunch and sat down for an hour 😊😊
Walked around with my suitcase and tryed hard to not walk so fast cause of my knee…
Around in Trondheim.
Approxy 2.40pm I found the bus stop for the shuffle bus, waited for a bus to arrive to be sure. Why, well it was some bus stops that were closed for the Summer… but I couldn’t sit there and wait, no benches 😔. Went to the nearest food store to buy some candy & gum.Walked in the shadow, didn’t want an other heatstroke, found a park. Sat down for approxy 45min in the shadow 😊😊, 🌡☀️+26°C that day… 🥵🥵🥵.
Trondheim city.
Went back to the shuffle bus stop. Waiting on the bus.. got to the airport (4.45?pm) 😊😊 dizzy, need of suger, ate some & drank some water, switched cloths b4 the security control. Depature time 19.50 pm
Gardemoen 20:40pm
Arrived to C7 had to walk to A12…
From Gardemoen it was planned to departure 21.15 pm but no it got delayed there too 🤪🤪 the good thing for me was, it wasn’t as hot at the airport as on Thursday.
The coolest sunset I ever seen, above the clouds. 😊 . Between Gardemoen and Sola, Stavanger the night to July 5th.
We were finally in the air 22.48pm. Now was just the question if I would reach the very last night shuffle bus back into Stavanger city for me to catch my last bus out to my suburb?!? We did arrive 23.50pm and you all know arriving doesn’t mean out of the airplane. Luckly I only had a cabin suitcase. I forced myself out of the airplane to be able to catch the last shuffle bus. 0.13 am I steped onboard 😊 HaPPy. Asked the driver what time we would be at the bushub, and he said 0.50 am. I asked friends who I knew could be awake, to pray that I would be able to catch my bus. I did. I locked up my housedoor at 01.20am exhausted in both body & brain.
The Lord was with my all the way. No doub! Eveey time I started to freak out He showed his love & peace. I made it becauce of Him.
…a week later, is more yellow than any other colours. I sat in my couch at home for a week becauce the leg was so sore…
mia-simone. svenberg 