Back home

So we didn't sleep so well in our large hotel room last night, too hot, too quiet and I had a headache after my 1 pint of beer!  Oh hum, never mind, we had something to look forward to, a Norwegian hotel breakfast.  We feasted ourselves on all the goodies - still not as good as the Scandic in Oslo, but can't really complain - much better than anything you get in the UK.  We all managed a good 3 courses before our stomachs started to complain.

Then upstairs for showers and to sort out bags before counting up our money and going around the Tromsø souvineer shops to spend it.  We didn't do too badly - a last patch for Tom's blanket, a half price T-shirt for Matt, a half price jacket for me, a couple of fridge magnets (turned out one was a business card holder) and some danglies.  We still had a bit of money left, but felt we had done justice to Tromsø.

We then got the airport bus back and checked in our flights.  Had to do everything ourselves - and managed to screw up - I operated the touch screen and didn't see any questions about bags for the hold and therefore we had no tickets to put on our bags, so we had to stand in line and get an operator to do it all again for us!  Oh hum.

Tromsø is a small airport so security took us about 30 seconds, how lovely.  Then Tom sat and watched planes arrive and depart, Matt did some work (he has a workshop coming up this weekend in Edinburgh) and I read a book.  Flew from Tromsø to Oslo with no incident and then had to wait 2.5 hours for our flight to Manchester.  Got some food, then counted up the Krona again and went to duty free.  Bought a box of red wine and a mini chocolate bar for exactly the amount we had left.  Yay, not often that you use up every last penny of your holiday currency.

We got back to grey, rainy, miserable Manchester on time, got the car and headed home.  Matt was freaked out the by the car - it was too low, too quiet, too fast and on the wrong side.  I was quite scared as we were going really fast.  The average speed we went in Norway was probably 70km an hour which is 43mph, so 70mph on the motorway felt VERY fast in deed.  Also there was so much more traffic than we were used to.  Oh hum, and we live in an 'empty' part of England!

Got back around 10pm, so pretty much went straight to bed.