Ready to Go Ashore, Olso, Norway

"ONE OF THE most remarkable things about the cruise was that each place was entirely different, and no two programmes arranged for us were alike. When we started, each port of call was merely a name for most of us, and we wondered if we should be very bewildered from seeing so many places in so short a time: now each one of them stands out clear and distinct in our memory and glows with a light peculiarly its own.

"So Oslo, the last place that we came to, shines out as quite different from any of the others, and it certainly was one of the most beautiful, both in its physical aspect and in the welcome which was given us there.

"To begin with, Norway was the only country where we saw mountains. All the rest, so far as we had seen them, were flat-the south coast of the Baltic flat and sandy, Helsinki and Stockholm flat and rocky. As we steamed up the fjord towards Oslo, the mountains rose up on either side of us, and it was quite as beautiful as the entrance to Stockholm: less smiling, and more majestic. Again it was an exquisite day, and we all crowded on deck, anxious not to lose a fragment of the beauty through which we were passing all too quickly, and trying to engrave it on our memories, to be remembered on dull, wintry days after our return.

"We anchored off Oslo soon after midday on Friday, August 25th. The distance from Stockholm by sea is 830 miles, and this was the longest non-stop run we had."

Rose Kerr, The Cruise of the "Calgaric" August 12th-29th, 1933, London: The Girl Guides Association.

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