{"id":360,"date":"2004-08-30T14:15:09","date_gmt":"2004-08-30T14:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/archives\/2004\/08\/30\/oslo\/"},"modified":"2004-08-30T14:15:09","modified_gmt":"2004-08-30T14:15:09","slug":"oslo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/archives\/2004\/08\/30\/oslo\/","title":{"rendered":"Oslo"},"content":{"rendered":"

As today is a Bank Holiday in England I thought I’d better do something with my long weekend (other than sit around the house watching DVDs). I got on the cheap airline websites a couple of weekends ago and the only place I could get to cheaply was Oslo.<\/p>\n

I got back this morning.<\/p>\n

Apart from the horribly early starts to catch flights in each direction it was quite fun. I’d have preferred if it didn’t take about 1h45 to get between “Oslo” Torp airport and Oslo, but that’s what you have to put up with when you’re flying with Ryanair.<\/p>\n

It’s a nice city, although (as anyone can tell you) very expensive. I stayed at the Haraldsheim<\/a> youth hostel, which is only about 15 minutes from the central station by bus or tram. It seems to be a very quiet and family-oriented youth hostel, not an Australian to be found anywhere!<\/p>\n

The thing I had<\/strong> to see in Oslo was the Fram<\/em> Museum<\/a>, the ship used by Nansen, Sverdrup and Amundsen for various voyages of polar exploration.<\/p>\n

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It’s an interesting museum, with lots of artifacts from the voyage and (refreshingly) it barely mentions Scott. It would be nice if the building was a bit bigger so you could actually see the ship from a bit of a distance but that’s more than made up for by the fact that you can wander around the Fram<\/em> itself.<\/p>\n

More photos…
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\n\"Picture<\/a> Oslo’s city hall<\/p>\n

\"Picture \"Picture<\/a> Vigeland Park, full of slightly odd statues<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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