The day before we were planning on returning to Oslo with our guests from Sherbrooke, they decided on changing their itinerary so they could spend the weekend in Amsterdam rather than Oslo!
So we decided to rough it alone in Oslo! What a great decision!
On Thursday, we flew via SAS, thankfully on a larger plane this time, from Trondheim to Oslo and caught a cab downtown to our hotel, the very modern Radisson Blu Plaza Hotel on the Sonja Henies plass.
While checking into the hotel, instead of the expected tall, blond Norwegians, the lobby was full of shorter, swarthy men! It turned out the World Cup soccer match between Norway and Turkey was happening the following day and the hotel was full of Turkish male soccer fans!
Our room was on a very high floor facing westward, so I took a few pics of our view! It’s very hard to see, but in the distance in the 2nd photo is the famous Holmenkollbakken ski jump!
As we had the day to ourselves, we decided to walk downtown and just explore as much of Oslo as we could!
At the end of our walk through the core of Oslo, we came to the palace!
After walking about the Palace grounds, we ambled through various neighbourhoods towards the harbour.
WW II Patriots memorial
de kjempet de alt
de gav oss alt
pa dette steo
ble norkse patrioter skutt
under krigen 1940 1945
they fought they fell
they gave us everything
in this way Norwegian patriots were shot
during the war 1940 1945
After our lengthy walk through the city and the harbour, it was supper time and what else would one have for supper in Oslo the capital of Norway? Pizza, of course!
That’s it for today… hoping to go to the Viking Ship Museum!