Wiggles in Frognerparken

Our chihuahua enjoys Oslo as much as we do. Today we met 2 other wawas in the Frognerparken right around the corner and let them play for quite some time.

Now Wiggles is sleeping like a baby - really exhausted but happy. :)



The next meeting with even more chihuhuas is scheduled for monday evening.

Another new experience: reindeer meat

Seems my beloved one wants to test out my flexibility some. ;)
Well, today we had reindeer meat with rice in some brown sauce. It did smell rather strange when uncooked, a bit like dog food, and it also looked like dog food - but when cooked it smells fine and tastes really good. Couldn't figure out any taste that is similar yet.

No more Nutella ...

It's empty - and I failed to find any Nutella in Oslo so far. But I've found a worthy replacement: sjokopålegg - cheap (8kr=1€) and really tasty.

Shrimps

Barely a week in Norway and guess what - I had to eat shrimps!

Well, they are damn tasty. :D

Our new home

A living room with kitchen, a sleeping room, a bathroom, a hallway, a biiig balcony and a fine backyard - that's our new appartment in Majorstuen, central-west-Oslo.
Right around the corner we have a super market, a chemist's, a zoo shop, 2 banks, a bus station, a tram station, a rapid-transit station, a cool cinema and everything else that we might ever need - simply great!



NextGenTel fixed our internet access today (that's why I'm writing all the new entries now).

Yesterday and today I had some runs to the public authorities (6h at the aliens department are not to much fun) but now everything is solved. I'll get my important "D-number" within the next 2 weeks and then I can fix a bank account as well. Will probably choose Nordea because they are the closest. :P

Done!

Finally it's over!
The last travel up was a bit more exhausting than the 1st one - pentecost travel drove me from traffic jam to traffic jam and the car from Sixt was just a crappy VW Sharan (no navigation system, no speed control, no proper foldaway of the seats) instead of the much bigger and better Ford Galaxy the week before.
But after ~8h we've finally arrived at my brother's house, unpacked everything (he suddenly decided that he wants the have my old washing machine because his broke). After removing all unneeded seats we managed to pack all stuff in the car and went on with 3 ppl (my fiancé, my brother and me) and little Wiggles (one of our chihuahuas). Our other furball has to stay at my brother for 1 more month until he can follow (some rabies protection restrictions).



12 hours and a short stop at the Norwegian border for toll control later we arrived in Oslo, unpacked everything and had a 1st walk in the nearby Frognerparken. My brother took a long nap, ate some, started to drive back alone and arrived back some hours later.

Finish spurt!

The "pack the rest and prepare for departure"-day has come.
All the remaining stuff (clothes, dishes, documents, etc.) will get packed. Around 12 I'll go to get a van from Sixt again and an hour later I'll pick up a carpet cleaner from Bauhaus.

Good bye old friends!

My last day at work is now over and I got a really really hearty "good bye".
Thank you so much everyone! It was so much fun to work with all of you.

First tour successful, 23 boxes moved

Last weekend we did the 1st trip to Oslo. 23 boxes got transported and the new appartment inspected. Everything worked fine, no trouble at all. Being fully prepared with long and detailed lists of the boxed stuff was very helpful (obviously). Even the weather was on our side, no rain until the car was fully unpacked.

Status: 18 boxes packed ...

and a lot went into the dustbin.
Guess we'll end up with ~30 boxes in total plus a few items that cannot get boxed properly (e.g. snowboard). So I'm quite positive that we'll manage to get along with 2 van-tours.

Myhammer.de

Next Friday we'll leave our old appartment to finally move to Oslo.
To save time and trouble we've decided to find someone to paint our old appartment before the administrator checks it. So I started an auction on myhammer.de to get a nice price for that work. Currently (little bit less than 1 days left on the auction) the price is at 290€ incl. paint and other material - quite fair for my taste.

So we'll see how this turns out.

Update: Auction ended at 230€ and the whole appartment got painted on Tuesday. (Thanks to Nicole for suggesting to use that page!)