Can’t believe it’s been two weeks since the Norway road trip! There were a few things I forgot to mention for travel tips.
1) If you’re an American and don’t have a debit card with free foreign transaction fees, get one through Capital One! Though Norway takes credit cards everywhere, there were certain places like gas stations where they took cards with a PIN number only. So every time we went to a gas station we needed to use a debit card. This is the same for metro/train stations in Copenhagen too (we stayed a week here after Norway; I won’t recap as I went to Copenhagen before and that trip is somewhere on this blog!). We never used cash anywhere or exchanged for any Norwegian money.
2) If renting a car, make sure to take pictures before and after and note any damages before you start your trip. When we returned the car, Enterprise emailed us after and tried to pin scratches from the front on us but we had proof it was there before we drove it so they dropped the charges.
3) Be aware Norway doesn’t really have air conditioning! None of our hotels had it and it got pretty warm sometimes. Some hotels had fans. It is probably only warm for a few weeks a year so I can see why they don’t have a/c though.
4) If you fly into Norway through another Schengen country, there is like no passport control! At least we didn’t encounter any flying in and out of Bergen! It was pretty seamless entry and exit.
5) Their WC/ bathroom signs crack me up
Would definitely like to visit other parts of Norway at some point but it’ll probably be a long time before that happens but glad to see what I did! I don’t have as much time or energy to research/plan/recap trips but will try as I keep gallivanting the world! :)
