Escape to myself

Well the hostel is fine if large like all these northern hostels. I miss the smaller type of hostel I found in Italy. The city is modern and I was told it was boring but so far I’ve walked the city centre, past the Cathedral and ended up by the fjord and the Akerhus fortress which was started in the 14th century and houses a variety of museums including one for the Norwegian resistance. It’s also home to the Military University. The castle is massive and sits overlooking Oslo Fjord and has some great views though today they were somewhat obscured by this monstrosity.

Akerhus Fortress

It’s a cruise ship and the castle was full of overweight and geriatric Americans. Cruel I know but they were so typical. Stereotypes always have a basis in truth.

Cathedral

Cityscape

The city has some poor modern architecture and the deLoitte building shows money doesn’t equal taste.

The city is very multicultural and chilled and the nordic men blonde, tall and very handsome when young. Not so sure how they age. My next stop was the Munch Museum… google maps took me a very weird way but I enjoyed the walk.

Munch

This is how you present an artist’s work. Munch left his enormous body of work to the state and they have treated his importance accordingly. Beautifully curated. I will post separately on the gallery. It deserves it. Here is a taster.

Around Oslo