Monday, January 26, 2009

Oslo

Oslo is a really cool city, though it is not so large in both size and people (550,000). I got lost for about an hour last night after I got in and went looking for a place to grab some money and quick food at about 10:30 on a Sunday night. After being lost, I looked for how to get back, ended up walking the wrong way down a street and ended up about 2 kilometers from where I wanted to be. However, that is not really so long of a walk, and I was able to get back rather quickly once getting directions from a local.
So this morning I walked out from the hostel and checked out about 3 museums (all of which were closed it turns out) and so I walked over to an old fort overlooking the harbor and the city and then headed over to the Royal Palace to see the changing of the guard. Then I headed back to the hostel for some washing up and doing some laundry, as I am out of clean clothes as of this morning.
A quick break from the laundromat and I am here to do some blogging. I have a free reservation for the train to Bergen on the West coast of Norway for tomorrow at 8:10 am and I also now have a free place to stay in Copenhagen thanks to couchsurfers.com.

2 comments:

  1. My favorite part of Oslo is everyone speaks better English than me.

    And they smirk when you ask if they speak English.

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  2. Actually, Norwegians are like Canadians, but even a little friendlier, so I think they would only smirk on the inside :)

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