I just found this feature on the web that I wrote over a year ago for The Scotsman on Oslo, and didn't even know it was there! It has brought back memories of the trip, and how surprised I was that it was unusually hot for early May when I was in the city.
As well, I remember baulking at the idea of a pre-dinner champagne in the world's most expensive city. I'm not mean when it comes to bubbly normally, and will generally quite happily cough up for a glass, but I couldn't bring myself to summon up the £17 or so it would have cost in the particular restaurant we were in!
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Travel news is always interesting to me, seeing as I'm always keen to fit in travel writing when the opportunities present themselves.
I use HolidayWatchdog a lot to check out package tour hotels (it has saved me from a Faulty Towers experience on many occasions!), as well as TripAdvisor for my independent travel, so I was intrigued to read on Travolution that TripAdvisor have bought HolidayWatchdog.
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