Roadtrip to Oslo tomorrow

Last Friday was my last day with Egmont, where I’ve been working as a publicist for three years.
In my leaving speech I began loftily saying that leaving Egmont was like having to leave a really good party early, but degenerated into revealing that one important consideration of the move to Norway is that it’s more easily defensible from zombies.
Overall it was a good speech. Only one person cried and nobody hugged me, but I’m sure they would have done if they weren’t eating all the cakes.
I received the most amazing wrapping paper, covered in a repeating pattern of Chuck Norris (people think there’s a resemblance) and within that wrapping paper was whisky and a book about surviving Zombies (by Max Brooks) hence the zombie rant.
So just to clarify Norway is good for avoiding Zombies for the following reasons: Low Population Density, surrounded by water, high percentage of chainsaw ownership, lots of islands and shear rock cliff faces. Of course it’s never a sure thing with Zombies. According to Norwegian movie Dead Snow there are Zombie Nazis out there in the wastes of Svalbard and as most Norwegians are towering athletic types I reckon they’d make particularly hellish zombies.
But anyway, this is not a zombie blog or a zombie rant, this is about moving to Norway. Just don’t be complacent! There. That’s my last word on zombies.
In positive moving news I’ve signed up for Job Seekers allowance so that I can claim it when Io arrive there to tide me over. Perhaps there’ll be some political debate about benefits in the comments section? Nope.
I’ve also booked the van for our 24 hours road trip to Oslo (and back again) next weekend. We're following the route Clarkson took in one of those Top Gear challenges.
I’ll be tweeting live from the road trip as I cross through seven different countries and will attempt to post one of each of the following from each country:
• Us eating a local snack or delicacy
• A regional manhole cover (see www.manholecoversoftheworld.blogspot.com for those)
• A picture of us looking tired
• A picture of us trying not to kill each other
Follow the journey on twitter @Open_Book
PS. Still open to couriering something back to the UK for anyone in Norway with transport issues.