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Pining for the fjords...

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So - day 1 of my norway/swedwen trip was more sightseeing than theme parking, I visited frogner park in oslo - all Id seen was it was a sculpture park - and it had a pool.

It was stinkin hot, so I spent an hour in the pool, cooling off! There were a few slides but they were pay extra, and I'd already locked my wallet in the lockers.

I then went to the park istelf

The entrance:


a big house


where the sculpture action is:


looks creepy


THERE'S NUDES!!


a bridge full of em


AVERT YOUR EYES


how inappropriate


where are you taking those??


calm down...


Athletic...


caption contest time...


The ducks weren't too bothered.


There was also a fountain.


surrounded by more nudes


oh - and the bowl was held up by nudes as well

this fountain wasn't surrounded by nudes


This column also looked quite disgusting



yep - more nudes


they were even on the gate!!


and here's the reverse view


There is also another park which has sculptures, but It was really hot so I went back to my hotel. Had an adventure getting there - the bus stop just around the corner, actually went under a bridge, and I had to walk about 15 minutes heavily laden!! got a taxi to the train station in the morning - only 12 quid for a half mile journey!

did I mention the nudes??
 
This trip report is just one big dick joke isn't it?

I was reading it and for some reason it kind of reminded me of banes speech outside blackcock prison in Batman
 
Day 2 - Bob a job..

Day 2, was at Hunderfossen park up near Lillehammer. Hunderfossen has it's own train station, but there are only a couple of trains each way that stop there every day. The park has a troll theme

Ariived at about half ten, to a pretty big queue for tickets, the coaster had a 20 minute queue for the first hour or so. The park was very pretty, and had a nice inviting feel along with a couple of really nice rides.

The park had a nice outlook:


And a very hairy looking ropes course!


No - the trolls not doing a poo!


And here was the coaster I came for - It's a nice fun little family coaster




The station had blueprints



The train looked just as good as in the publicity



one nice detail is the front seat gets the steering wheel etc.




The theme for the holiday was the heat - particularly the first week! Even the monitor was feeling it!


The other main attraction was in this building


It housed a mini drop tower, and a fairy tale ride. The fairy tale ride was naff, but the drop tower was great - an abc rides construction - the preshow is rubbish, but you then go trough a nice walkthrough and into the dinly lit tower room, when It starts,the lights all go out and you start the slow climb, up to a little scene of a princess using a spinning wheel, followed by the drop - for such a small tower it really packs a punch - actually got a "whoah" out of me! rode it about 5 times and loved it!

PART 2:

When planning the trip, I noticed that just about next door to the park was..



The olympic bobsleigh run


During the summer months you can take a wheeled bob down - Reaches about 100kph. (in winter you can do the "regular" bob and luge (yikes).

It was about £25 for the run - and totally exhilerating - if you're traveling alone it's worth emailing them to see if there are any larger groups you can tag along on - as they need at least 3 others in the bob. There's no max weight, and I fitted in the bob just fine!
 
I had no idea you'd already been places before we met up. That building with the dark ride and drop tower looks incredible. Considering the design of that and the coaster train I look forward to seeing what else this park adds over the next few years.
 
Coulda been sure I'd mentioned my plans in at least one of the tusenfryd/live threads..

Anyway - Day 3 was unpleasant surprise day....

The overnight train to Stavanger was pretty uneventful, although on norwegian trains they don't put reserved signs above seats, so when you get on and find your "neighbour" already sleeping across both seats, etc. you have to take your chance on not being in someone else's booked seat!!

After putting my luggage in the station lockers, I had breakfast (Norwegian sausage mcmuffins taste spicier than the English ones), and headed to kongeparken.

Not a bad location:


Random teapot:


and the entrance


and once the taxi had moved:


Cred 1: (vekoma junior)


Cred 2 was a reverchon spinner themed to a castle:

Can also be seen here along with the log flume


Another shot of the log flume:



They also have Norway's longest wiegand toboggan!
It's somewhere in here!:




And a gravitron themed to the north wind

(and bizarrely cows..)

It had a wobbly bridge entrance



and a slide exit


As well as a thumping ride cycle!

I'd been looking forward to Luftskippet
http://bloggfiler.no/livjudit.blogg.no/ ... 868782.jpg

Unfortunately it was down, so more luftspitet....


After spending 9 pounds on chicken nuggets and chips the previous day, lunch today was half a chicken and a roll from the nearby spar....

After leaving , I went back to stavanger and took pics of the fountain and strangely colourful harbour





Norwegian and swedish train stations charge a pound a go for the toilets - In stavanger you had to pay by card! Took 2 attempts as the first time didn't open the door properly!!

And todays nasty surprise was getting to the hotel in kristiansand only to be told they'd given my room away as I hadn't arrived by 6! Ended up stressed and spending almost 100 pounds more on a different hotel

On the plus side, I did find a rather good burger place (burger bordello)
 
I really loved Hunderfossen! Both the indoor drop tower and Il Tempo Extra Gigante are great solid attractions, and I totally agree that we should wait and see what great things this park comes up with in the future :--D
 
Day 4 - SPLASH!

Expensive hotel night done, I made my way to Kristiansand zoo (which had a massive entry price)

I appreciate the honesty here, but it wasn't THAT bad!! (yes - it's called "Dyreparken"...)


The zoo had a small rides area, and an alpine coaster (I count these, so nyah!!)



The rides area had a spooky walkthrough - which was ok...

Rides done, I was going to have a lightish lunch before I saw this:

No - I didn't eat the train, just look inside...

Lovely juicy steaks....


I had the spare ribs, which were delicious!

The plan was to walk round the zoo, and then go to the waterpark, seemed most of the animals were resting due to the heat!
I did see a camel

an otter

OH GOD - IT'S ESCAPED!!

some carelessly discarded litter (in one of the enclosures)


Plastic Norwich city fan cows

real cows

sheep

whatya doing in my house?


and a moose


Before seeing this bathing tiger

and thinking "sod this heat - I'm off to the waterpark!"

The waterpark was great!
One building with 7 slides:

including these 4 head first ones


and a rubber ring, spewed out by a snake slide!

Kids area

and a bag-ass half pipe


On the way out, they had pictures from local kids - I particularly liked the snorkeling giraffe!
 
Rides done, I was going to have a lightish lunch before I saw this:

No - I didn't eat the train, just look inside...


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That is genius.

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Day 5 - Where have I gone???

Today was official pre-live day at Tusenfryd, So I took the overnight train from Kristiansand to Oslo.

Train arrived just before 2am, and should have left at half past, Got on, and couldn't get the power sockets to work - damn, was hopinbg I'd have enough juice on my moboile to get in touch with people when I arrived. Fell asleep and woke up at around 3:15 - and we were still in kristiansand! Spent another hour or so wondering when we'd get moving, and decided to ask at the trains buffet cqar - only there's noone there, Finally ask a guard who tells me that there's a problem with the power lines, they'd tried to get coaches but failed.

We finally left 4 hours late! And were told we'd need to change to a replacement coach for part of the journey - all told, arrived in oslo 5 hours late - Finally got in touch with Sue and arranged a late meet up in the park.

Still rather stressed, I didn't actually take any pictures during the day (did get on everything, so left happy)..

First up was speed monster - http://rcdb.com/3245.htm which I actually quite enjoyed, a little tame, but pleasant enough!

Then loopen - http://rcdb.com/1043.htm Which was PAIN!

Then I can't remember the ride order, but brief reviews:

Western Expressen - http://rcdb.com/10448.htm - Meh

Thundercoaster - http://rcdb.com/1042.htm - One of the surprise coasters of the trip for me, Rather rattgly, but gave some really nice airtime - had 2 goes, and first was better (can't remember if it was a back of front seat ride)

Supersplash - http://rcdb.com/1900.htm - Quite fun.

Dvergbanen / Teeny weeny - http://rcdb.com/1552.htm - small and just as dull as expected +1

Other rides:
Thors hammer - Rather liked this, even if it's not as good as spiderman - story seems to flow quite nicely, and there are some good scenes - one screen was faulty, and there may have been some misisng effects

Log flume - Meh..

Kids adventure trail - A nice goony diversion

Sue and co getting locked in Fryds house by stone cold - A nice goony diversion

Knightmare - odd shooty spinny cinema thing

Space shot - another sns shot tower...

Spin Spider - Just Fab! I don't know how the company responsible for the vile volare, can make such a sublime flat ride! Those who are put of spin rides, should consider it more a "swing ride with slow rotation to make sure you get a fair share of ups and downs etc.." - Floaty light and actually quite blissfull!
 
Day 6 - thunder and BANANAS!!

Not too much of a report on liseberg as people have already reviewed it in the live thread. I'd visited a few years ago, but had Atmosfear, helix and the new kiddy cred to look forward to.. A lot of people say it's "like blackpool, but cleaner" - I think there's far more to it than that though, as this picture should show


Helix ERT was first, and shared with hotel guests - which was probably a good idea as early morning it was a little rattly, and just felt too "intense" for multiple rerides. Initial thoughts were that it was a very good thrill coaster which packed a hell of a lot into it's circuit - The little pauses before the launches just give you a little breather before the next onslaught of fun, and it just seems to flow so nicely.

Balder was next - Last time I thought it was fun, but overrated - this time was similar, although it was running better after the rain. Next was poop time, followed by kanonen - They've recently installed the softer OTSRs - it improves the ride a bit, but it's still gross.

After this. some did the haunted walkthrough, I was getting knackered so I sat it out, and then before lunch we did the 2 kiddy creds - I didn't do rabalder as I already had the cred - Stampbanan was actually not half bad for a little coaster. Lunch was the grill buffet - had chicken legs, ribs, delicious, tender, rare roast beef and the staple of european buffets - Potato gratin - shame we didn't all go there, it was fairly quiet and good value, Grabbed an Americano on the way back which was just as good as I remembered from last time (S'kafferiet - and it's amongst the best coffee I've had).

Afternoon Highlights:

Atmosfear - Good, but not as good as Fritt fall
Lisebergsbanan and the thunderstorm
The chocolate umbrella (see the live thread)
The log flume - got soaked, shame it wasn't before the rain!

And finally the night ride on Helix - It had really warmed up, no rattle, no headache, could have ridden over and over - shame it was closing time!

Didn't take many pics.
Banan's loading station



Balder


One in the banan queue that didn't turn out too well


And some night shots




 
Day 7 - Stormy Sommerland.

We arrived at Skara sommerland at just gone 9, ready for our 9:30 ert on tranaan ( http://rcdb.com/4312.htm ). 9:30 came and no one was there to meet us. At 9:45 they started letting regular guests in... Ian got someone's attention, and about 5 minutes later we were heading in - only had time for 4 rides on tranaan, which was fun, and totally unique. After shortened ERT, we rode spinner ( http://rcdb.com/9913.htm) - my 450!, an odd combination of compact reverchon spinner, with maurers back to back cars - it was VILE so Ideal as a semi milestone..

Dull go karts and faffle followed- I won the uber-valuable coasterforce car sticker, and then the days final cred - Gruvbanan ( http://rcdb.com/1465.htm ) - a mack powered train going thruogh a gnomey cave thing - pretty nice ride! Ice creams and Flat rides preceded lunch.

After lunch we went to the waterskiing thingy - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqOHNYy ... VM80cz6ZnA - great to watch, but I didn't try it for some odd reason..

The plan was to head to the waterpark from there - but the thunder changed most peoples minds - a few of us got changed, found out the big slides were closing, and got in about 15 minutes of slides before they evacuated the whole pool - got changed, bought tat and met back at the bar - It rained VERY heavily as we were heading out.
 
Day 8 - Groaner lund

Another park I'd already visited, but now I had Eclipse - the 400 foot starflyer to look forward to. We were met by the lovely Annika who took us to our ERT on twister, and told us they'd had to close the whole park during the thunder storm, AND eclipse may be closed all day today (booooo!) - managed a good dozen rides during the hour - it's better in the back. It's just good fun, with lots of little pops of air, although I have to say I prefer GCI.

After ERT we did vilda musen - I loved this last time, but this visit it just felt slow and rickety and had none of the fun I remembered last time - BOOO! Jetline was ok, Kvasten was good, but not as fab as orkanen. I think Insane was next - I rather liked this last time, but just got an AWFUL ride this time thrown around, all sorts of ball pain, yeuch! we also did the 2 kiddy creds (can't remember if I did the zierer last time, but definitely didn't do the zamperla). Bla taget was also done before lunch - its a great ghost train - love the back prodders!

Lunch was chicken skewers - which where nice, if small, and I sneaked in a go on Fritt fall - which was every bit as good as I remembered! After lunch we did the fab fun house, and the not quite so fab tunnel of love. Ghosty walkthrough followed (pretty good), before saying cheerios to about half the group who were leaving for their flight back. Before saying bye to everyone else, and heading to my hotel for the next three nights, I got in another go on Bla taget and a couple of runs on the drop tower (sit down feels much better than stand up)

Another great euro live - Thanks again to Ian!
 
Day 9 - Money, money, money..

Having discovered I was running low on pants and socks, I spent the morning at the only launderette in stockholm (10 quid)

I also decided to find some new coffee beans (internet recommendation was VERY expensive!!)

In the afternoon I went to the abba museum (another 20 quid) - It was quite good fun, but a little expensive

It had interactive areas so you can see what you'd look like if you were in the band!



I prefer this one cos it gives me nice boobies

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Or appear on stage with them

(yes, that is someone else....)

The museum also includes the swedish music hall of fame, which features clips from other famous swedish groups etc. Could have spent longer listening to the clips, but got a bit wary of booth hogging!

The tat shop was very expensive (T shirts about 25 quid, a small jar of "honey honey" was almost a tenner, etc..) - I got 2 bits of tat which weren't way overpriced (socks and a corkscrew), as well as a cd of stuff the members did before forming abba.
 
Day 10 - More than a black hole.

When I heard that Furuvik in Sweden was the new home of the old Black hole, I had to visit - Was a bit put of by the price and time to get there last time I went to stockholm, so decided I needed to make time after the live.

Furuvik is more of a zoo, with a small rides section, the rides area is owned by a showman, so the zoo is about £20 entry, and rides are token or wristband (another £20). The rides opened later than the main park, so I went round the zoo first.

Monkeys:




There there - the scary man with the camera will go soon


does my bum look big in this tank?

Yah, huge!


Big ass spider


Goats



Kangaroos


and these cute guys:


There was also a boat ride, which was pay extra, and not included in the wristbands (What a flippin liberty!) Highlights were flamingos

and a rhea with babies





Before heading for the rides, I walked down the adventure trail to the "secret fort"

They had this "gladiatoresque" beam thing and big jigsaws

(you can't see in the photo, but the beam is barely a shoes width wide!!)

The secret fort itself was actually a coastal defence bunker


with weapons





and camp looking model soldiers



Heading towards the rides area, there was a big thunderstorm...

About an hour later, I finally saw

Yep - the black hole naked!! (AKA rocket)

didn't realise it was an electric lift hill


Was nice to have another go on it - the last visit I had to Alton when it was there, I didn't have time (ironically I remember thinking "well - they're not going to remove it are they!!??"). I may be a bit nostalgic but it was great!

The rides area also had
Mini bounce tower

bleugh

a big apple

And a fab ghost train!
After lunch, I had another go on rocket, and just as I finished, Another thunderstorm started
Rain

Rain and more rain..


SO I decided to call it a day, and got the (delayed) train back to stockholm

PS - just in case you need your vag serviced they had this area..
 
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