Yesterday spent the entire day in Drammen. Visited a museum, had dinner by the waterside and visited family, It was really fun and great to see family again.
We headed off around 1 pm because the museum we were heading to were only open until 3 pm and it took us around 1h to get there. Since my parents hadn’t been there before we did struggle a bit to locate it, but after driving around for a bit we did managed to get there eventually. The place was called “Drammen Museum” and had multiple departments and this was one of them. Upon arrival it was already 2 pm so the lady said that since it was only 1h left and because they had part of the museum closed she would give is free access, which was really great. There were too buildings with two floors. The oldest things started from the top and got more modern as you walked down. The second floor was my favourite because is was filled with a lot of great things that had so much history behind it.
The second house had a small gallery which I didn’t find that interesting since paintings aren’t really my thing, but some of them were really nice. There were apparently paintings from a lot of famous Norwegian artists.
After we were done with the museum we still had a lot of time to kill before we were visiting my cousin, so we parked the car in the city and took a small walk down by the river side. The weather was beautiful with it being around 25 degrees. We decided to have a drink at Norwegians biggest square that was located in the city. It’s called “Bragernes Square” and it was pretty huge. There was a lovely pub and we decided to have something to drink. I went with a apple cider which tasted really nice. I basically asked the waiter which of the ciders that was the sweetest and he suggested the apple one.
When we had rested our legs for a moments we headed off to a restaurant where we had booked a table for the three of us. The restaurant was located right by the river side so we had a lovely view look out over the river. The place was called “Kawa” and was apparently an Asian inspired restaurant. My dad and I had Chicken Katsu while my mum had salmon sashimi and a chicken salad. For drinks I spotted a Lychee martini and really wanted to try it out. it was amazing. I was worried that I would taste the alcohol and not like it but the sweetness of the drink triumphed that. They also had a cocktail that contained dragon fruit which also sounded tempting, but that’s for next time.
After our delicious dinner we went to the care and headed towards my cousin’s place. She had recently moved into a small house together with her boyfriend. The place was located on a lovely quite hillside. She had talked about it being working project to get it finished and she wasn’t kidding. They had done tons of renovations and they were still not even half way there. She showed us around and explained her plans and it that it most likely will take the rest of the year if not more to have everything done. We all sat down and talked and I told them about my life in Belgium and about the new “ID” card I had gotten. We got to meet my cousin’s new dog called Bitten. She was really sweet and also really playful. Since it was getting late we decide not to stay for too long. We still had around 1h long drive.
As we got home it was time to relax for the evening. We watched a couple of episodes of the tv series together until we all headed to our rooms for the rest of the night.
Today we decided to have a calm day since my mum woke up with a migraine.
The Anna behind Yannani 