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Best breakfast of the week goes to Thon Hotel, Harstad. Unfortunately, we didn't have much time to enjoy it as we had a plane to catch. We finished the week as we started, pouring with rain. It was quite a shock to the system when we got off the plane in Oslo, it was 18 degrees and quite muggy. After checking in at our hotel, we took the shuttle bus back to the airport and caught a fabulous train into the town centre. It was a smooth and quiet ride, clean and comfortable carriages with excellent information. We visited the Oslo Opera House. The Norwegian nature is free for everyone to walk in, and The Oslo Opera House, which opened in 2008, was built as an extension to this idea. Visitors are invited to walk on the marble roof which slopes right down to the water. From a distance it looks like a ski run! We walked round to Aker Brygge Wharf. For more than a century Aker Brygge was the site of a shipyard, Akers Mekaniske Verksted. The architecture at Aker Brygge is distinctive, with its combination of old, venerable shipyard buildings and modern architecture. We walked back through the town and returned, exhausted, to the Clarion.
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