Lillehammer Norway

This summer we made a day trip from Oslo to Lillehammer. This is only the second time my wife had been back since she attended Nansen Academy in the 1970’s.

More photos from our visit to Lillehammer can be found on my website.

The train station holds special memories for us. Back in 1999 we were on a hut to hut hiking trip to Norway. After the hiking adventure we toured around Norway for a few days making a stop at Lillehammer. We were a little late getting to the train station and ran through the station to catch the train. Then we waited and waited. Turned out there was some kind of problem on the tracks and we had to get off the train and spend a good part of the day on the street waiting for buses to transport us back to Oslo. The original station has been expanded since our last visit.

It was a warm day and as we walked through town we noticed a couple of kids ridding their bikes through a fountain.

We walked past the local church and a large athletic complex.

Our destination was Nansen Skolen where my wife attended school. She had a great time while attending school and became fluent in Norwegian as well as a good cross country skier. Some of of here stories about learning to cross country ski were quite funny. They usually involved her being face down in the snow and some little kid asking her if she was alright. As it turned out one of the reasons we got together because I was one of the few people in town who knew how to cross country ski. The second photo is the house she lived in while attending school.

After visiting several places we headed back into town to catch the train. Lillehammer like most European towns has a great walking street. We really wish more cities in the U.S. would wake up and convert some of their streets to walking streets. We spent some time wandering around looking for some of the places my wife remembered visiting as a student. As it turned out things have really changed since she was in school and most of her local haunts were no longer around.