Oslo

Oslo, the capital of Norway, was the second stop on my current month long journey around Europe. Going to Oslo was an obvious choice, as we were working our way through Scandinavia, it made sense to go to one of its capitals, and was also very easy to get to from Bergen, on Norway's west coast, where we'd made our first stop. Getting to Oslo was relatively easy: we took an overnight train from Bergen, which since it was during the summer meant that it was slightly difficult to sleep as it didn't get very dark, though this did mean that we got to see the beautiful scenery of the Norwegian fjords as we wizzed across the country through the night. It really was a ...

Oslo, the Nordic City of Light, has changed over the last 100, and even the last 20 years, and a new cosmopolitan Oslo has wakened in the shadow of the images of the old sombre Oslo as depicted by Edvard Munch, the city’s famous painter. Getting There ----------------- Oslo is situated in southern Norway, at a latitude of almost 60 degrees N. If you have the time and the money, you can reach Oslo via one of the 100 or so cruise ships that stop here every summer, but otherwise the simplest way is via direct flight to one of Oslo’s two airports – Gardermoen to the north of the city, takes 40 minutes into the capital, or Torp, served by Ryanair takes ...

A couple of summers ago we decided we'd hitch our way from here in the Stockholm area of Sweden to Oslo in Norway. One way or another, in sweltering heat, and by more than half a dozen different lifts, and with virtually no money in our pockets, we made it. This is a a little bit of what we did. After a first nights camping in the north of the city forest area called Sognvann, we decided that we would go and see some of Oslo today, so we made the journey by bus and train back to the Central Station, and put our rucksacks into lockers, although it was quite unclear how much they cost or how long you had. We ...