On 15 Mar 2000, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote:
> Allan Rae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> | On 16 Feb 2000, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote:
> |
> | > We will have the meeting in Stokke, in my parents house.
> |
> | How many Stokke are there in Norway? From a search at mapquest.com I seem
> | be get a choice of at least five (9 possibles found)
> |
> | It looks like the most likely candidate is near Stavanger. Should be a
> | lovely place then.
>
> But that is the wrong place :-(
>
> Look at the Stokke near Tonsberg (Tønsberg) and Sandefjord instead.
This also looks like a lovely place.
> | Shall I add a note to LDN?
>
> How many can we expect that will show up? :-)
Hundreds if not thousands! Don't know (You did say there were no limits
except for the boatride back to Oslo). Anyone interested in LyX would
probably already be subscribed to the list or have looked through the mail
archive and seen this thread. So it would be news but I don't think
anyone extra would turn up.
> | Australia -> Copenhagen (1 day or so) -> Oslo -> train tour up to Narvik
> | (photos crossing the Arctic Circle, icicles hanging off my...there's a
> | bus involved there somewhere)
>
> If you are going by train to Narvik you have to either take train
> through Sweden _or_ go by bus from Fauske (Bodø)
-> Bodø -> bus to Narvik
> | -> Boden
>
> Is that a misspelling for "Bodø" or is it a place that I have not
> heard of?
It's in Sweden. Near the coast, close to the Finnish border (well closer
than Stockholm is anyway) but on the line from Narvik.
> -> Stockholm ->Oslo (at least 8 or 9 days have now gone by)
>
> And a lot of cash... (in beer that is)
It's a good thing my tastes have matured and I now prefer wine ;-)
> | June 7-8th
> | Find Stokke (either via train to Bergen/Flåm and then a ferry to somewhere
> | near Stokke, swim to shore, get rescued by lovely Norwegian girl, live
> | happily ever after...[a long time passes] where was I? Oh that's right
> | getting to Stokke... or via train to Stavanger if that's the right
> | Stokke).
>
> Please don't follow this route. Then we will never meet you!
But what about that lovely Norwegian girl? She'll be heart-broken!
> The Stokke is about 100 Km south of Oslo on the Railroad
> "Vestfoldbanen", it is the stop after Tønsberg. OR if I am by chance
> in Oslo at the moment we will meet there and go by car to Stokke.
Okay I found a map only a couple of miles across so I'm still a bit lost.
I might not need to go to Oslo to get to Stokke then if I'm coming from
Stockholm.
> | Stokke -> Oslo on Lars' boat
>
> If we go non-stop the boadtrip is 10 hours, but we will most likely
> have a stopover in some bay/fjord/whatever
Ahh... so there might still be a lovely young lady involved somewhere.
Allan. (ARRae)
