Day 23: Tue 1 Aug: Oslo

Start time: 8am
Stop time: 3:30pm
Weather: patches of blue sky and sunshine every now and again, but mainly overcast, 12 to 21deg 

Slept well despite having a casual day on the bike yesterday. Didn't need as much fuel (breakfast) this morning as we're only doing the walking thing today. Greg then went with Mick and Kate to check our bus for tomorrow as we weren't that confident about getting bikes on buses. Anyway, we spoke to the driver on the same bus we'll be on in the morning and he assured us that it would be okay. However, he was quick to refer us to the Swebus website regarding the policy for packaging the bikes up. Having sorted that out Greg went off to meet up with Wendy while Mick and Kate decided to do a city walking tour with Ken and Maree. 

We then had a great wander through the city centre, Town Hall, Akershus Fortress, Army Museum, Oslo Uni, Historical Museum, Cathedral and the Botanical Gardens. Enough ticks in the book there to sink a battleship. Seeing it's a rest day we'd better do some, so it was back to the hotel for a rest. It was 3:30pm so we'd done good.

Met up with the rest of the gang for pre-dinner drinks with dinner back at Cafe Sara because we loved the food there last night. Also, it was our pick for a dinner place and we couldn't find anything nearly as good.


Entrance to City Hall

Inside City Hall

Patterned floor

City Hall from the other side

Statue at Akerhus Fortress

Surgical instruments at the Norwegian Armed Forces Museum

Iniversity of Oslo Faculty of Law

A bin for apple cores ONLY

Flower markets

A flash building in the city

City Hall

City Hall pano

Lovely old boats

Cruise ship entering the Harbour

Army Museum

A little Norwegian guy

Very flash Oslo Uni ceiling

An even flasher Uni dunny


13th century interpretation of the crucifixion at the History Museum

History Museum


Olso Cathedral



The city bikes being collected for a service

A cute little courtyard

Interesting scluptures

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