Walking around the town of Bergen
[Aug. 2009] I will continue the story of the time when we went to Bergen in Norway in the summer of 2009 (I am looking back on past trips because we could not travel much…
Norway
Looking at paintings of Munch in Oslo
[ May 2019 ] I do not know many famous people from Norway, but I know Munch, the painter. The National Gallery where there are paintings of Munch was unfortunately closed for renovation work to…
Visiting the Resistance Museum in Oslo
[ May 2019 ] Coming out of Akershus Castle in Oslo in Norway, we noticed the Resistance Museum on the left hand side. With the Oslo Pass, it is free to get in, so we…
Visiting Akershus Castle in Oslo
[ May 2019 ] There is a royal palace and a castle in Oslo, Norway. Currently the royal family lives in the royal palace and that is located at the end of the main street….
About the small market in Oslo and some other things
[ May 2019 ] I continue talking about our river walking tour in Oslo, Norway. One of the destinations of the tour was the area of many artists’ workshops called ‘Blå’. We had heard that…
The walking tour along the river in Oslo
[ May 2019 ] One of the benefits of Oslo Pass we bought in Oslo, Norway was that we could join the walking tours free of charge. We joined ‘the river walk’ started at 2…
‘Old Town’ of Oslo in the museum
[ May 2019 ] The Norwegian Museum of Cultural History is an open air museum which is better than many of the similar museums around the world with the indoor exhibitions as well as open…
Norwegian Museum of Cultural History in Oslo
There are 5 museums in Bygdøy, the peninsula in the west of the centre of Oslo city in Norway. We went to one of them, the Norwegian Museum of Cultural History. It is an open…
Opera in Oslo
[ May 2019 ] A friend of mine had told me that the opera house in Oslo is worth a look, so before going there we booked tickets for a performance. Everything in Norway is…
