I knew I had more than one hour in Oslo this morning before my meeting started. Before leaving Trondheim I packed my diary and decided to find a coffee house where I could sit down and enjoy life just the way I do in coffee houses - sipping coffee, eating something sinful, writing, reading.
I had planned to go to Grand Hotel and the old, very charing place where we took Marta during our Oslo days last summer. But when I came it was still breakfast time for the hotel guests, not open for ordinary coffee house guests untill 11, which would be too late for me.
Well, what was I to do then? I passed several coffee houses, but they were all new and modern, and I was completely in a mood for something more of an old style.........
Suddenly I remembered a place behind Stortinget (The Parliament) where I have been once or twice years ago. Halvorsens Conditori.
It was open, it had the perfect style for me, and as it was still early, it was quiet. No problem to find a window table.
To celebrate the day and the birthday's of two friends (one in Trondheim, one in Venezia), I bought the most sinful cake I could find. After all it was already almost 5 hours since breakfast......
Eating, drinking coffee, writing.......and reading from the book I had bought just minutes before, Paul Theroux's The Pillars of Hercules.
"People here in Western civilization say that tourists are no different from apes, but on the Rock of Gibraltar, one of the Pillars of Hercules, I saw both tourists and apes together, and I learned to tell them apart......." Paul Theroux
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