Licence lost and found and an unexpected "trip"!

After another fine breakfast we checked out of the Radisson – great hotel but for one thing – the TV set in the room was mounted on the wall beside the bed so that when Willie got out of bed he had a tendency to bang his head or shoulder on it – fortunately neither TV nor he suffered any serious damage! As we left the town we saw some police officers for the first time – we don’t think that the long arm of the law is overworked either in Bodo or Tromso! After boarding the plane, Willie checked his credit cards and was most perturbed to discover that his driving licence wasn’t among them! He got permission to return to leave the plane and retrace his steps to look for it. He was most relieved when there it was lying under a seat in the now empty waiting room. We flew out at 11.25am – ten minutes early and two hours later landed at Oslo’s Gardermoen airport. We then had a long drive in a Toyota Auris hire car to the Dr Holms Hotel in Geilo up in the mountains. We had to watch the speed carefully as the Norwegian police are very strict with people who break the limits by as little as 5 km/h. We saw ominous grey boxes at strategic spots along the way – referred to euphemistically as “automatic traffic control”. Don’t think we broke the law but if we did, we are assured that we will find out about it on the credit card bill! It was 6.25 pm by the time we arrived at the hotel which celebrates it centenary this October. Dr Holm was a Norwegian chest physician who had the hotel built for his TB patients at a time when the only





























teatment was a good diet, exercise and fresh air. It was actually used by the Nazis in their “Lebensborn” programme. It is in a very beautiful setting and the scenery leading up to Geilo where it is situated is stunning. The hotel has a ten pin bowling alley, spa, swimming pool etc so we are looking forward to making good use of them. Willie was looking forward to going into the hotel and saying, “Hi, I’m Dr Holmes” – instead as he went through the door his bag caught on the spring door, he tripped and ended up in an undignified heap on the floor – not quite the entrance he had been hoping for!

Weather:
A very wet morning and early afternoon, but on the way to Geilo the rain stopped, the clouds cleared and we had blue sky, sunshine and an altogether beautiful end to the day.