Oslo it so quiet

Oslo has not really sparkled for us, with only a day and half to do so and the beauty we have come from it perhaps wasnt going to get a chance.  We also needed to readjust our guage.

We headed down for breakfast, two with ears still popped from the flight and slightly deaf, into an almost literal bun fight and the chance of getting a pain au choclat was zero as the buffet breakfast was proving to  turn nearly everyone into some kind of food hoarder or binge eater.

With a massive coffee queue andthen putting coffee instead of hot water on your tea bag it was time to escape the harassment into the city.......

It felt deserted and so quiet 🤫 

Armed with a trusty paper map and a few assumptions as there was no key to the map we headed off to walk around the city with ultimately one goal insight......an ice cream!

As we ambled out around 1000 it felt like me didnt get a memo about being outside......there was no one around. Made walking around quite easy but felt weird slightly abandoned.

Pedestrian zones that didnt seem that pedestrian as quiet electic cars seem to sneak up and try and get you. We wandered quietly past the Church....interestingly everything is made.much more of brick here, had a photo at.the tiger gifted in 2000 as apparently oslo is also known as the tiger city! Saw Thors hammer, actually a WWII MEMORIAL and looked in at.a closed food hall before taking in the Opera House.

Fron a distance it looks like a cruise ship in the harbour and tou can stroll around the marble roof. It is weird experience as there isnt anything specific to do and the skyline isnt pretty but it is intriguing to see how people myself included interact with the space. Like little ants from a distance.

After this we walked the harbour edge not convinced by the the water that people were jumping in before using a the harbourside saunas. We settled for a coffee at SALT a rather electric space that no doubt is absolutely buzzing of an evening

Next up was the fortress that King Christinia remodelled in the 12th-13th century after moving the then capital further south and naming it among many other places across Norway Denmark and Sweden after himself, though Sweden wasnt reallly a thing at that point. He never really lived there but did make the trip from Denmark 5 times and was until recently the longest reigning monard of Denmark and texhnically still has the record for Norway.

After a chill in some swings we wandered on for lunch and eventually settled for ooen sandwiches at the Nation Museum after ambling past the town hall and through the gift shop of the Nobel Peace prize. I did not know it was Norway that created it.

Here we had stumbled across tourist centre with numerous dining places and yes finally an ice cream.

As we ate our ice creams on a bench we watched a japanese lady get attacked by a seagul, not like the guls in Lofoten but like the guls in the UK. As Lindsey commented that at the ice cream stand there had been a sign warning us of the seaguls one made a fully aggressive approach for Fis ice cream all but landing on her head! But we fought hard and one.

Feeling suitably fuelled we powered on past an astronaut to the sculpture garden we had seen on the map where we started with having the most expensive wee on the plant at 2 euros each!

We had done zero research on the sculpture garden but can report they were notably largely than the head we had hiked to but came with their own surprising theme.

The sculptures all represented the 121 stages of life of which we are none the wiser as to what they are! But here are a few for your own delight

Worn out by the nakedness and after a return to the hotel we spruced up and went out for a fish supper and possibly the most expensive bottle of wine we will ever have!

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Its soooooo quiet

Look its going dark