Tuesday 5 May 2015

a week in norway

Back from beautiful Norway after 5 days of adventure with my friend Nick. 

We spent the first couple of days in Oslo exploring the city with all it's wonderful architecture (the huge modern opera house with it's slanting roof, the amazing neoClassical Royal Palace and traditional wooden structures that are iconic to Norway..). We stumbled upon an Indian Festival celebrating the turban. It was beautiful and colourful with fantastic traditional Indian music, delicious food and turbans for everyone! 

We visited a couple of museums and art galleries including the Emanuel Vigeland Mausoleum which is amazing! We also had a lovely picnic lunch in the Vigeland Park with all sorts of crazy sculptures. (Gustav and Emanuel Vigeland are brothers - Gustav being more well known.)

We spent the rest of our trip couch surfing in Nesodden, one of the most beautiful, tranquil and picturesque places I have visited. There was a wonderful coastal walk that we went on, taking lots of photos along the way. It was so nice to be outside in the fresh air - it is so crisp and clean and we were lucky to have sunny weather the whole time (except the last day when it began to snow!)

We also visited Drammen and Sandvika with a lovely friend of Nick's. The highlight of that was visiting the Drammen Spiral. We drove up inside a mountain, around and around and around in this tunnel until we reached a door at the top, drove through and we could look out across the city of Drammen. It was really beautiful and photos just don't do it justice!

It was so lovely for me to travel with a friend this time - I have had enough of solo travelling for a while! Thanks Nick for joining me and for doing so much of the organising and map reading and for cramming so much in to such a short amount of time!

Here are some pics of our adventure. Enjoy xx

Vigeland Park


Vigeland Park


Outside one of the art galleries.

Outside one of the art galleries.

Turban Outfitters Festival

Turban Outfitters Festival

Turban Outfitters Festival

Turban Outfitters Festival

Turban Outfitters Festival


Turban Outfitters Festival

Turban Outfitters Festival

Busker in Oslo

Drammen

Nesodden

Nicholas!

Nesodden

Nesodden

Last day in Nesodden

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