Arrived safely after a brutally long day. Now showered and awake, sat on patio facing the boats with Frexinet and gave thanks for my life and all who make it fabulous!!

In OSLO at the Central Hostel. It is so clean and nice and reasonably priced! It is my birthday today. 56 WOW, this has been some year, and it is still not over - 21/2 more months to go! So my priorities have changed - would rather catch up my pictures than worry about what I am going to for me. Tahyia and I will go out for a quite evening later so I cam looking forward to that, but otherwise, happy to do this. I am helping this little girl whose name is Pr...

We arrived at 11:30am or so. Missed the flight to Kilimanjaro but as it turned out - because I dished out another $220Cdn for an economy 'plus' seat, I was near the front of the plane. Not only did I have a more comfortable flight with no one beside me, when I de-planed, I was able to find help before the mad rush of nervous and cranky passengers. The lovely women helping me showed me that KLM had already re-booked the tickets so I leave today at 8:30pm, arri...