Oslo!
It's past midnight, but it's just sort of dusky outside.
Everything is bright and shiny and clean and new here.
They give you ice water in restaurants without asking that you don't have to pay for. The tap water tastes like bottled water. A week-long transit pass costs as much as a month-long transit pass in Budapest. There are five wireless networks visible from where I'm sitting.
Norwegian looks like German and sounds like English if you're not paying attention.
I saw Star Wars. I haven't seen a movie in a theater in... I don't remember how long. As Hixie says, "Norwegians are strange. They have assigned seating in movie theaters, but don't have assigned seating on airplanes." The scrolling text in the beginning of the movie was in Norwegian, but fortunately every major noun and verb was a cognate, so it wasn't too hard to get the idea.
I think I should be discovering my ancestral homeland here, or something, but currently I'm just feeling the transition back to the west.