Oslo in 2 days
Trip Start
Aug 11, 2007
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Trip End
Aug 18, 2007
Oslo,
Oslo,
Norway
Friday, August 17, 2007
We need four hours to arrive to Oslo from Dombäs but before arriving at the capital we stop at Lillehammer to see the ski jump (used in 1994 Winter Olympics).
Bordering lake Mjosa (the biggest in Norway) we arrive at Oslo at 1.00 p.m. It's a beautiful city, very modern and urban. It has nothing to do with the incomparable fjords but it's OK. We're used to see small villages surrounded by forests so now Oslo seems stressful, but much less than Barcelona, no doubt!
We visit the Town Hall, the Parliament, the Royal Palace, Akersus and the boisterous Karl Johann pedestrian street.
Later we still have time to visit 3 MUSEUMS!: Norskfolkmuseum (Norwegian Folklore Museum) - an open air museum where you can see Viking buildings as wood churches, old typical houses with grass on the roofs, etc
Lillehammer's ski jump
. and where you can see traditional dances-, Fram Museum - the boat that Admunsen used in his first expeditions to North and South Poles-, and the Viking Boats Museum.Late in the evening we go to Frogner Park. It's great!!!! It's full of Gustav Vigeland's sculptures. The park is veeeery big, beautiful, with all these realistic human sculptures. the best thing is the 15 meters height monolith located in the middle of the park, made of naked people interlaced. You have to see it! The park itself is really symbolic; it represents the different stages of life: childhood, adolescence, youth, adulthood, old age... and death, of course. I think Frogner Park is bound visit if you visit Oslo.
At night we dine at Hollmenkollen, a hill from where we have a splendid view of the city. Here is located the oldest ski jump in thw world, and it's still working
August 18
Our last day in Norway. Our flight departs at 7.00 p.m so we have all the morning to walk along Oslo. We take Karl Johann street that leads at the Royal Palace
Norskfolkmuseum - Oslo
. We enter in the Palace Gardens and then decide to go to the cemetery to see some "famous graves": the playwright Henrik Ibsen is buried here, and so the ar know painter Edvard Munch (the author of my favorite picture, The scream). Warning: is quite difficult to find Munch's grave, it goes unnoticed because it's small and sober.At 2.00 p.m we eat at Burger King (wrong! but it's the only site accesible to small pockets!) and later we discover a great comic book store in the train station. OH-MY-GOD!!! that's paradise for a comic lover like me!! We stay so engrossed that we have to run to take the bus if we don't want to loose the plane. Anyway, the flight delays one hour and fourty-five minutes (always the same!).
The trip's finished and, as usually, it's hard to adapt to everyday life. Return to routine! :( I must start thinking in my next trip!
