beautiful places and welcoming spaces

and expensive beer

in oslo, norway it costs $5 for a beer and $30 for a 6 pack, and that is at grocery store

i don't know how todd and zach made it when they were in sweden, where the beer is also so expensive (and low in alcohol), you can only get high alcohol content from the government store

but the sun is up from 5 until 10:30 (and that is short compared to June) but during the winter it is so dark and people have "sun" rooms to get the light they need

but wait, they found the black market, and as i mentioned in the last blog the women are so beautifuly, so i know how they survived

but everything else has been welcoming and beautiful - stockholm was amazing and oslo is too

and i am couch surfing, which for those of you who don't know, it is an online society of travelers who offer up their couches or floors or beds to fellow travelers and then take advantage of that hospitality when they are traveling

i just joined, even though todd told me about it 3 years ago, because a guy Oliver told me about it in Stockholm and told me of Jachym, from Czech Republic, who is a student in Oslo and so i joined and requested a spot and he mailed back and now i am here

it is awesome, he met me at the train station, showed me where to get a 24 hour pass, told me places to go, showed me the grocery store, and shared a beer with me

and he said the weather was always beautiful when travelers come because they need to see the city at is best, so i brought the weather

well, there is probably more to say, but i need to rest before my train in the morning