We get a bit fixated on lounges here, and in most cases these are dry-walled boxes with cheap furniture and impractical tables where you're packed in, trying to construct a meal out of garnishes and mysterious wraps with something that is almost but not quite entirely unlike chicken, washed down with whatever happens to be on free pour. Every now and then, a besuited phwanquer will zig zag in front of you on a very important call, earbuds in and gesticulation set to 11.

There must be more to life than this. Even at airports. So I wondered what others have found that's preferable? In terms of food, drink, other facilties?

My starter gambit is Fiskeriet, dotted around Oslo airport. This is a chain of fish restaurants, and they do a magnificent and generous fish soup. You'll sit at a bar or small table working your way through it, and there is excellent people watching available in the terminal. It's a really nice alternative to the lounge, which usually has a thin soup and random salad oddments.