"It's not just Tulips and Cheese….. To
Norway, Holland and Bulgaria"
Day 1
I am flying to
Oslo today and it is quite pleasant so far.
SAS is a very
professional airline, I survived the obese, seriously baked English tourists,
bursting out of their recently purchased, at least one-size-too-small shorts
that will rip apart at the seams as soon as they leave Spanish territory and
have no-one to whine at because the guarantee is no longer valid, while their
equally chubby children persist in kicking footballs around the airport as if
they owned the place. …. I actually survived all that!
And I just
enjoyed a reasonable, if somewhat over-priced, chicken pasta salad.
Nothing so far
has bothered me anywhere near as much as being constantly reminded that Norway
won the recent Non-Eurovison Non-Song Non-Contest and being told that the
performance was ¨fantastic¨. I just ordered some ¨fantastic¨ Norwegian coffee
and got a dirty look from the head steward who was wearing an equally dirty
shirt.
I think
Moldavia or some such non-European country won the non-contest last year and
they are even ahead of Norway in the alphabet!! I don´t know which one is
actually closer to Europe though ….
I´ll be in
Oslo in a few hours … it´ll be interesting to see who else wants to discuss this
apparently gladiatorial achievement. Whoever it is I shall heartily congratulate
them on the fact that it was a Norwegian team that won their national football
championship.
No doubt that
it will be a team that is either full of foreign players or players that want to
be foreign players, but that´s another discussion.
¨Live Fire¨ is
97.5% Norwegian and all of them are winners as far as I am concerned. The other
2.5 % is what´s left of Iceland in Eric. Come to think of it, what IS left of
Iceland?
I haven´t see
the band for too long and I am really looking forward to this trip. It will be
our first time playing in Holland, a country where you get great gas mileage
because they figured out a long time ago that you could achieve this by removing
all the hills!
I´ll have
dinner with my old friend Morten Jensen and then spend time on the radio with
another old friend, the number 1 radio personality in Norway, best-selling
author and now (justifiably proudly) the poster child for weight watchers in
Norway, Mr. Finn Bjelke!
I am proud and
lucky to have such good friends ….
Oh and I´ll
have little argument with someone who spent more than one thousand euros of my
money without asking me!!!!
