Norway has very nice trains and busses, but this country is very large with a relative low population and it is not always very pleasant to be outdoors. Choosing where you live means choosing to be completely depending on a car or not. I live very near Oslo, only a half hour by car, but the nearest anything is 5 km or more away, and my work in Ås 30 km. Neither my house nor the university is next to the train station and the travel in between takes 1h19min (except at 0718 only 34 min, which I can not catch since Merijn schoolbus leaves 0730) besides that it costs NOK 51 one way (www.nsb.no). When I want to visit friends in Bergen I take the train, if booked very early NOK 199, but for the daily routine I need a car. So after scanning www.finn.no for a few days I found a Toyota yaris, much like the one I sold two years ago, a little newer though. Yesterday I called the importer to check whether the car was still there. After a final check on other options that evening I made an appointment with my neighbour Margunn to drive to the station together, she works in Oslo and drives to the Tomter station. Mind that I was already there using their wireless internet at their home. I found that I can use my mobile to connect to internet too, but this connection is very unstable.
The Finn car sales page covers the whole country, and although an even better looking car was for sale close to Bergen, I choose one on a little closer on the other side of the Oslo fjord. I took the train Tomter – Tønsberg, where you now also can use a chip card to pay for a ticket. Changed trains in Oslo, luckily without delay, and arrived in Tønsberg 2hours and 20 minutes later, where I took the taxi to Sem, since I had no clue where it was. The taxi driver informed me on how to avoid the toll roads on the way back, on the way to the ferry Horten - Moss.
I saw the car and liked it. Dirty outside and inside, especially the engine, tyres without profile and scrape marks in the plastic part of the boot. The sound of the engine was as a diesel should sound, and it drove as expected of a tiny turbo diesel, a lot of power and little weight. This model has a much different interior compared to my previous one, but I already like the volume buttons on the steering wheel. Dark grey metallic may be a bit dull colour, but very practical. I bargained for two sets of better tyres, with the summer set on alu. Unfortunately I have to pass by the place next week to pick those up. I signed the contract, paid via by internet and called my insurance company. Then the seller called Morten was off to register the car, and pick up new number plates.
I had to wait two hours in a village with only a few shops, two petrol stations and a Chinese restaurant. There I ordered a cup of tea and managed to hook-up to the internet with my mobile. By 1530 I was called back and received the car keys, so within an half hour I had tried all buttons,radio, glove and related compartments and was on my way back home. The ferry cost NOK 78, for a car and driver for about 40min sail. The coffee on board was pretty bad, but there is free internet access. From Moss it takes exactly 30 minutes to reach home over the bumpy roads because of the thawing frost underneath (telehiv).
If the weather becomes as good as promised I will have a car to clean this weekend, nobody here I can pay KES 50 to do it. Good the car is a little smaller.
Link to car advertisement:
www.finn.no/finn/car/used/object?finnkode=21176648
The Finn car sales page covers the whole country, and although an even better looking car was for sale close to Bergen, I choose one on a little closer on the other side of the Oslo fjord. I took the train Tomter – Tønsberg, where you now also can use a chip card to pay for a ticket. Changed trains in Oslo, luckily without delay, and arrived in Tønsberg 2hours and 20 minutes later, where I took the taxi to Sem, since I had no clue where it was. The taxi driver informed me on how to avoid the toll roads on the way back, on the way to the ferry Horten - Moss.
I saw the car and liked it. Dirty outside and inside, especially the engine, tyres without profile and scrape marks in the plastic part of the boot. The sound of the engine was as a diesel should sound, and it drove as expected of a tiny turbo diesel, a lot of power and little weight. This model has a much different interior compared to my previous one, but I already like the volume buttons on the steering wheel. Dark grey metallic may be a bit dull colour, but very practical. I bargained for two sets of better tyres, with the summer set on alu. Unfortunately I have to pass by the place next week to pick those up. I signed the contract, paid via by internet and called my insurance company. Then the seller called Morten was off to register the car, and pick up new number plates.
I had to wait two hours in a village with only a few shops, two petrol stations and a Chinese restaurant. There I ordered a cup of tea and managed to hook-up to the internet with my mobile. By 1530 I was called back and received the car keys, so within an half hour I had tried all buttons,radio, glove and related compartments and was on my way back home. The ferry cost NOK 78, for a car and driver for about 40min sail. The coffee on board was pretty bad, but there is free internet access. From Moss it takes exactly 30 minutes to reach home over the bumpy roads because of the thawing frost underneath (telehiv).
If the weather becomes as good as promised I will have a car to clean this weekend, nobody here I can pay KES 50 to do it. Good the car is a little smaller.
Link to car advertisement:
www.finn.no/finn/car/used/object?finnkode=21176648
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