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Although Oslo isn't exactly a destination for sunbathers they have good opportunities for swimming and relaxing in the sun.
We visited the nice Huk beach on Bygdoy-peninsula. You'll find small bays of sandy beach between rocks and a green lawn and can enjoy the view onto the fjord. A part of it is an official nudist beach.
You can get there by bus #30. Go til the terminus and walk some 200m on in the same direction. But don't leave the bus at the Fram and Kon-Tiki-Museums where some of the busses stop on a second terminus. Leave a Comment
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 by SORHUS
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u can start from diffrent place.....take a tram or train from the town center to ur starting point Leave a Comment
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Take the blue tram (number 18; direction Holtet, or 19; direction Ljabru) from town and you will enjoy a sightseeing and a great view as the tram climbs up the steep hills overlooking the city. Get off at Sjomannskolen, which looks like an old fortress (used to be a school for sailors). Cross the road (to the right) and keep walking straight ahead until you reach a small parking lot and a path that leads down to a grassy plateau. Here you will find a small cafe (the red little house) where they offer home-made cakes and treats which you can enjoy at the tables outside while admiring the stunning view over the Oslo fjord and the islands.
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 Botanical garden, Oslo, Norway by prleprle
The Botanical Garden
P.O.Box 1172 Blindern
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 Old Bislett Stadium by ChiTownMike
They have been rebuilding the stadium this past year and are also putting in a new track. Leave a Comment
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 Architecture museum by sourbugger
It is quite an impressive place, with a glass roof being strung over rows of old townhouses to create an impressive exhibition space.
Examples from all over the world are presented with drawings and models, from cutting edge skyscrapers, to a park and ride stations in Strasbourg and small scale community projects.
As it is free, it is worth a brief look, especially if you actually know some of the projects described.
I'm not going to have a go at architects, but if you descend to the lower floor and go to the men's loo - there is no bog roll holder. The paper roll is just left on the floor ! Attention to detail is supposed to be everything in the architectural world.
Kongens gate 4, 0153 Oslo, Norway Leave a Comment
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Telenor is Norway's telecommunications giant, with an increasingly growing global presence. Up until recently, Telenor was state-owned, but it has been partially privatized in recent years. (I wonder if there are stock options for employees?) Obviously, they wanted to create a work environment that would make it possible for them to hire - and retain - a highly skilled (but potentially mobile) labor force. Telenor wanted offices that were aesthetically satisfying - compensation perhaps for the long hours that the employees put it. They spent 35 million NOK - about $5 million - just on art for this place. Leading international artists were brought in to help shape the environment. The North Building features a constantly scrolling videotext, flashing phrases and sentences in red: the work of American conceptual artist Jenny Holzer. It gives a strange flavor to the place: sometimes it seems just a little Orwellian. At other times, the text provides an ironic counterweight to the busy activity of Telenor's workers: it's somewhat peculiar that a telecommunications company should be patron for an art piece that suggests the banality of communications. (And it's in English!)
Hey, we're all globalized these days! It was an odd coincidence that I had just started reading Douglas Coupland's brilliant novel "Microserfs" before I arrived in Oslo. It's set in the Microsoft-land and the Silicon Valley in the 1990s, and follows the steps and mis-steps of a group of techno-geeks as they grapple with corporate buy-outs, start-ups, and their own emotionally messy lives. It's a brave new world of work. I noticed that there didn't seem to be anyone over 40 working at Telenor. I guess once you pass a certain age you are turned into Soylent Green. Leave a Comment
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stateliness by yooperprofLeave a Comment
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 by Bada-Ran
On winter the lake frozes and gets covered with a pretty thick layer of snow. Lots of people go there to cross-country skying, trekking, going for a walk. I tell you snow it's no a handicap. We even has a barbecue on it!
Personally, I didn't realise I was wolking on a lake until someone told me and I saw people making holes to fish with canes.
The pictur shows the lake, you'll see just for how flat it is, and the group of people I was with. Leave a Comment
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