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- Oslo
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- Norwegian Krone (NOK)
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- 4,503,440
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Oslo Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Oslo, Norway
It's been a sizzling fortnight for a proud uncle.
This is a top pick! ... family and friends. To name a tiny few. I revisited my two favorite childhood beaches along Glomma, the largest river in Norway. I enjoyed a few good parties with friends both in Elverum and Oslo, and rediscovered the meaning of a flipping fun nachspiel ...
Coming into Norway
This is a top pick! ... in for one night. We had an extension to 6pm and begrudged paying for another day. It is coming into the busy season in Norway and this caravan park can cater for 3,000 visitors. We moved to Holmenkollen (10 minutes up the road, literally) to the ski ...
CoastalBeauty
This is a top pick! As we camped between a mountain and the coast in Alesund, Norway, The mountain being in the east, we were not woken too early by the warm sun on the canvas, and the view to the coast was peaceful. There were quite a few large ships moving around the ...
Ferries
This is a top pick! ... I think that's why we're here, we're all loveing it. We had 3 ferries to catch today. There are so many fjorden coming into Norway the ferries just take us across the waterways, not from island to island. Each ferry had a toll as do many of the roads in ...
Naked Statues!
This is a top pick! ... pornography (including child pornography, no doubt) despite the lack of sexuality in nearly all of the statues. Whereas in Norway, a country which doesn't exactly have a "wild and crazy" reputation, families come to this park for a Sunday outing or ...
Oslo
This is a top pick! After a lovely holiday from the holiday in Melbourne, I'm back in Europe, this time in Oslo, Norway. I've fallen in love with Oslo, but maybe that is because the weather has been so nice. It's actually hot here! And is is only dark for a couple of hours ...
Flamsbana railway...
This is a top pick! ... credit card, it would be stupid to get into debt on a country that looks far less exciting than Norway anyway (sorry Kristian!). So, I booked a flight from Tromso to Oslo with the aim of finishing my jaunt on a high... My only regret on this trip, as ...
Cute Drug Sniffing Dog
This is a top pick! ... you need a coin to get in. It's like no free sauce with your meat pie! What are they thinking? Getting the bus to Oslo was an interesting experience to say the least. We like to call it Adventures with Spot, Dick and Jane. We got asked to mind ...
Anyone seen that Painting?
This is a top pick! ... any bags and had just crashed on a spare bed. No one had any idea when he came in or where he came from. Looking through the Oslo guide we found the free section on what to do around town. One of the things was the Munch Art Gallery. The gallery was ...
Dusting off the backpack...
This is a top pick! My trip to Norway began with a couple of nights in Oslo, and although my first impressions weren't great, I warmed to it in the end. Perhaps I was a little underwhelmed because the bus journey from the airport had been very scenic, and suddenly I was ...
Tour of Norway - Oslo and Sogneford (Days 1 and 2)
This is a top pick! ... from where we transferred to a small gauge railway to Flam and then a fast ferry down the longest fjord in Norway - the Sognefjord. During our afternoon in Oslo we walked down to the harbor from where we could take a ferry across the Oslo fjord to ...
Good result
This is a top pick! ... I had to drive out of Alesund as a soccer match is quite long and you can't just sit on one beer. The drink driving limit in Norway is .02. I bravely set off to find our campsite for the night and was lucky to find a spot by a lake and with 2 flat areas ...
Youth-hostelling is usually a great ...
This is a top pick! ... boat which he sailed all the way from Morocco to Barbados. We took the bus out to Vigelandsparken which is apparently Norway's most visted tourist attraction and contains over 200 sculptures by Gustav Vigeland. Neither of us had heard of it - Imagine ...
The loss of a hero
This is a top pick! ... , and it kind of, rolls over and dies. The guy calls himself a naturalist. As I said, used to be one of my heroes. When in Oslo, keep well away from this place. And then it happened, don't you just hate it when you pull that camera up for its first shot, ...
Perfectly Nordic
This is a top pick! ... year. Where it's colder than we'd like to remember and definitely the furthest north we'd ever travelled. We found ourselves in Oslo, Norway. I had always romanticized Scandinavia, ever since I read a book on Norse myths and legends in high school. I ...
Vigeland's Oslo
This is a top pick! ... -wise. We had already prepared for this though, as had our hostel room mate, Peggy. She had been in Stockholm before coming to Oslo and the rain over there had apparently been as common as Ikea. We all wanted to see the Vigeland Sculpture Park so we ...
Discovering the Peace Laureates
This is a top pick! ... the Nobel Peace Prize. All prizes are handed out in Stockholm with the exception of the Peace prize which is done in Oslo. The museum had an astonishing display of technology like a hologram book which would turn its page when you moved your ...
Back to the warmer weather
This is a top pick! ... room mate. The beer is really expensive. Works out to 5 pounds for half a litre. Good thing I've only had one night out in Norway. The next day I headed off to see the sights. I found the general feel of Oslo a bit non-descript. The architecture was a ...
Oslo
This is a top pick! Le voyage en train de stockholm a oslo fut merveilleux!!! Je crois bien avoir vu 1000 lacs! Il faisait un soleil superbe et dans le confort de ma premiere classe ( c`est quelque chose!) j`ai pu apprecier tous les merveilleux paysages. Parfois le passage ...
In and Out
This is a top pick! ... Oslo through a series of under-building tunnels we ended up in the centre with the sun again blazing. I was hugely impresses with Oslo and a little disapointed that we weren't going to spend more time here, just a side effect of travelling with others. ...
Første stopp med overnatting
Da er turen igang. Vi sto opp 0615 og tok toget fra Røyken 0705. Kom på Gardermoen 0830 og sjekket inn. Alt gikk etter planen. Flyet var 30 min forsinket da det ventet på passasjerer fra København. Ombordstigningen gikk veldig greit. Alexander var ...
Time to leave again... :-(
My time at home was up and I had to leave home for Boulder again. I needed a follow up on my neck, so I couldn't stay in Oslo any longer. The time flew by. I had a great month at home (except for the weather.) Went for long walks in the woods with Chili ...
XXX in Oslo
Greetings from the smallest capital city in Scandinavia...the city of Oslo, Norway. What a beautiful journey entering the Norwegian Fjords to arrive in this city which is also the site of the Nobel Peace Prize Award each year. We ...
First weekend in Oslo
... school, but nothing unusual to report. We tried a couple of the cafes near my apartment. There's a "Bagel O Juice" and a "Kaffebrenneriet" (Oslo's Starbucks). Bagels aren't bad, but not like back home ;-). My mocha is a little odd - they don't use ...
Heï!!
... pour commencer notre expedition a travers les Fjords norvegiens. Sa va nous aider budgetairement ;-) parlant parce que apparament que Oslo est une des capital les plus chers en Europe. Petit fait cocasse, les Courrones(monnaies norvegienne) sont beaucoup ...
Oslo Day 2
... to see the ski jump. Wow, it was awesome, amazing and a rewarding experience. Great views, supposedly it is Norway's most visited tourist attraction. We were already behind our depature for Stockholm but we too wanted to see The Vigeland ...
We overestimated Oslo...
First real day of cruise... Woot! However sadly Oslo, stop one, was a real disappointment. being a sunday everything was closed. Which made for a quiet day. The town itself was quite plain-not particularly pretty, developed or rustic, somewhere strange in ...
Oslo or Christiania
Velkommen to Oslo ! Founded in 1049 by King Harold, who setup the Akershus Fortress to deter those pesky Swedes. Norway has an interesting history, from being independent, to being taken over by the Danes, to being handed to the Swedes (both whom ...
Going back to my ice cold country :-(
... was the last we saw of St. Lucia, but the drive to the airport was nice. St. Lucia is truly a gorgeous place. Safely back home in Oslo, I couldn't even find my own car on the street where I'd left it. Lol! It had snowed in and I had to dig it out for ...
Never ending sun
Oslo was quite strange due to the fact that at 1 am it was so sunny out it looked like it was 6 PM. We don't think that it every got dark. Taking part in a Norwegien delicacy we enjoyed some waffles with something called brown cheese or Gjetost. The ...