Nina's Blog - Wednesday 18th September 2024

Wednesday 18th September 2024, 14:52

Woke up at 10:00! Put on a dress and pottered around choosing jewellery and a coat. When I got to my living room and checked my mobile I found that Tesla had called. They had also left a message in the app to say that they called to say that my car is ready!

I had just enough time to grab my handbag and open the bus company app to buy a ticket to the next town before rushing to the bus stop.

So now I'm on a nice quiet electric bus. It's quite a bit more comfortable than the ICE buses because there are no gears. It's interesting to see that it also has no external mirrors; instead it has cameras and screens.

It has as many USB charging sockets as there are seats half USB A and half USB C. Not everything is perfect though, it claims to have WiFi but it's not connected to the internet

Unfortunately I came out in such a rush that I forgot to pick up any lipstick :-(

Got to the car. Brought the spare key with me so it was easy to open and found the other key in the glovebox. The car was plugged in to a charger so it had 150 km more charge than it started with which is nice.

I decided that I should drive it a bit to make sure that it really is fixed so I went to the Henie Onstad kunstsenter for a walk. Now I'm having a very late brunch at IKEA on my way back.

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Secretsmile · 51-55, F

You have such nice photos. I love the heels. Thank you for sharing your story and photos. I don’t travel much now so it’s great to see other countries. I’m not sure where you are located?

ninalanyon · 61-69, T

@Secretsmile Thank you!

I'm at home in Norway now so all the pictures since the end of last month are from Norway. In the week or two before that I was en route from the UK to Norway via France, Belgium, Germany, and Denmark. I didn't take many scenic pictures then, mostly selfies in various IKEAs :-) Before that I travelled around England for about three months.

I guess you are in the US, which makes visiting other countries a bigger challenge than it is in Europe. A three hour flight from Oslo, Norway, gets you to any one of about two dozen countries. It also helps that I am both retired and widowed and have a reasonable pension so I can travel almost whenever and wherever I like.

Secretsmile · 51-55, F

@ninalanyon yes I am in US. You are lucky to have a leisurely life in retirement. I have traveled a lot here in the US and the islands but never across the Atlantic. Thank you for letting me take a peek into your life. ☺

ninalanyon · 61-69, T

@Secretsmile I'm glad you like the pictures. I write these posts mostly as a kind of public diary, so they are in a sense mostly for me. But I have found that having an audience that comments on things makes it much easier to convince myself to write something everyday. I have tried several times to keep a private diary but I could never manage to keep it going; so it's just a lot of boring things like appointments and very brief notes about things in my and my family's life that I shouldn't make public.

Do you have pictures of your travels in the US? If you do I'm sure people would love to see them.

And yes I am lucky. I've had a moderately well paid career, I have no debts, own my own house, etc. Part of what has helped with the luck has been a combination of willingness to take opportunities when they arise combined with a frugal nature so that I never over extended myself financially. I'd like to think that this was a result of something I willed into being but to be honest I suspect that like most things it is largely down to circumstances and the luck of the draw; all I have been able to do is to try to take some small advantage of the way the dice fell.