Having visited the birthplace of the ancient Olympics as well as the Barcelona 1992 venue for the summer Olympics this year we were excited to learn more about the winter Olympics. We spent a couple of hours at the Lillehammer Olympic Museum this morning learning even more about the Olympic movement - we enjoyed the exhibition of the recent Olympic torches, including the 2012 torch that we saw in Guildford and we watched the speeches at the Opening Ceremony in...

The sun came out - hurrah! We spent the morning on the campsite doing schoolwork which then turned into a game of cricket as it was such a beautiful day (PE needs doing as much as maths) and then headed into Lillehammer with the satnav getting us horribly lost before doing it the old-fashioned way and just following the road signs to Maihaugen, a Norwegian Folk Museum. I have become increasingly fond of these open-air museums as the year has gone on and a...

After a disturbed sleep, due to the campsite being right next to a train track and a busy road we headed to the "Hunderfossen Familiepark" next door. This theme park is based around Norwegian traditional stories mainly involving trolls! However, there were also a lot of car rides sponsored by various companies such as Mercedes, Volvo trucks and Shell. The park also had go-karts, Megan was just the right height so I took her on them but she was slightly pe...