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This cute wooden shack is half-fishmonger and half-seafood cafe. However you choose to
class it, the well-priced fish is so fresh it might well flop off your plate and back into the
sea. If you're looking for picnic provisions, grab a slab of its smoked salmon to take away.
Information
Tourist Office
TOURIST INFORMATION
(
48 06 33 33;
www.visittonsberg.com
; Storgaten 38;
9am-4.30pm Mon-Fri, 10am-2pm Sat mid-
Jun-early Aug, 9am-2pm Mon-Fri rest of year)
Just off the main square.
Getting There & Around
The
Tønsberg Rutebilstasjon
( 33 30 01 00; Jernbanegaten)
is a block south of the train
station. Nor-Way Bussekspress buses run to/from Kristiansand (Nkr425, 4½ hours, one to
two daily) via most coastal towns en route, including Larvik (Nkr130, one hour, two
daily). Nettbuss runs to Oslo (Nkr199, 1½ hours).
Intercity trains run hourly between Tønsberg and Oslo (Nkr225, 1½ hours) or south to
Larvik (Nkr103, 34 minutes).
Bike rental is available from the tourist office for Nkr75 per day.
Drivers of their own vehicles will be stung by automatic tolls for entering the town pre-
cincts.
Sandefjord
Pop 44,950
This former whaling capital is a busy town and is home to one of only a couple of mu-
seums in the world dedicated to whaling.
Most buses running between Oslo and Kristiansand stop in Sandefjord.
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