I had a good idea what I wanted to do during my time in Oslo, and whilst I don’t want to be too organised [that’s just too boring huh?] I do like to spend the 1st full day wandering around the city, getting to know what is within a good walking distance of the hotel, where the attractions and public transport stops are located, plus mingling with the locals.

I don’t know why this is but whenever I go on holiday, I always get people coming up to me and asking for advice or directions. I don’t particularly mingle in that well, but I think a lot of it is because I appear to have confidence when walking around and I don’t walk around with my head in a map.

What I found different was that they were some attractions, like the Vigeland Sculpture Park would have been best seen from May to October, but the Holmenkollen Skiing Stadium was best seen this time of the year in the snow.

The one thing that stood out for me about Oslo was the amount of graffiti – most UK cities have it’s fair share of graffiti, but a high percentage of properties in the city centre have graffiti on the walls, which I thought was a shame, and I suppose you could say it gave the place a bit of character.

The ferry services to the Kon Tiki Viking museum and other parts of Oslo don’t start up until April, so you have to take the number 30 bus, which wasn’t a problem, but it would have been nice to have taken a trip there by ferry.

The Oslo City Museum was very educational, and I think I was the only tourist in the museum – it gave you a great insight into the history of Oslo. If you get the Oslo pass, you can get free access to all of the museums and attractions I have mentioned in this blog post.

Price examples:

Beer – between 60 and 80 nok [£6 to £7]
Hot Dog & Bottle of Coke – 30 nok [around £3]
Oslo Pass – 300 nok [around £30]
Internet access – 20 nok [around £2 for an hour]
1.5ltr of Mineral Water – 17 nok [around £1.80]

I’d recommend visiting Oslo and Norway to anyone – it’s a beautiful country, and I’d like to visit again and this time, take a trip up the Fjords and take in the magnificent scenery of the mountains and lakes.

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