Oslo, Norway

A couple of days later and here I am in Oslo, Norway. If I thought that Geneva was expensive, that's nothing to Oslo. I was warned that a taxi ride from the airport to the hotel would be about $200 so caught the train instead...then a flat white coffee in the hotel lobby cost me 24 Norway Kroner, or almost $5 Australian. I have to check Coke prices to get a relative idea of cost!
Anyhoo, did a bit of wandering today - firstly to the City Hall, which is pretty hideous architecturally but it has a really nice clock and a waterfally thingy at the back...
I stopped in at the National Gallery, mainly for Daniel for 'The Scream', one of which was returned just the other day - this one was stolen when the winter olympics were in Lillehamer and returned a few years later. How on earth one walks out of a national gallery with what must be one of it's prized posessions I don't understand, however unlike many other museums around the world, there is no security into this one - you just wander in ... and out it would seem!

Also in the National Gallery but unfortunately closed for the time being, is Kittelsen's work, which I would have liked to see. This picture of a troll rising from the water is pretty cute huh? How about this one called Skogtrollet (Hill Face)?
Some of the buildings are lovely : the National Theatre, a building that's now the Hard Rock Cafe, and the parliament buildings, all shown below.

The Royal Palace is not quite what we have come to expect, given Buck Palace etc, but is surrounded by lovely gardens. I'll finish off today with a couple of nice bronzes - the first is a tiger outside the main railway station, the second was in a little park in which there was a memorial to Munch, but no indication of who did this sculpture.


More soon....