She had literally just arrived and dropped her stuff at my place on Friday evening, when we already left again for the first adventure: going up Vettakollen! You might remember that that was also my very first adventure in Oslo in January; however, things were a bit different this time. I'll keep it short: less snow and less daylight...
We kind of missed sunset waiting for the T-bane:
Anyway, it was still quite nice, although I was barely able to recognize the path, since I only knew it covered in snow.
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| The very famous Holmenkollen ski jumping ramp again! |
The way down again was... interesting. As you can tell from the photos, it was already getting dark. By the time we arrived back at the metro stop, it was basically completely dark. But hey, we made it without any injuries or instances of getting lost in the woods!
On Saturday, we went out to explore Oslo - by foot! Cornelia had thoroughly prepared and elaborated a route from my place to the city centre via all the stuff she wanted to see. So basically, she guided me, since I had only been to these places by public transport. When I had had my first visitor in early February (for the posts about this week, see here, here, and here), walking everywhere was just not an option. If I have to remind you: it was something like -12 degrees and super icy everywhere... :P
The weather was really nice on that day, so I'll just post photos from the places we went to, although I had been there already. I mean, look at all the blue sky in the background!
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| Hi birds! (Vigelandsparken) |
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| Det kongelige slott (the royal palace) |
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| OMG, flowers!! |
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| Fountain with rainbow :) (at Nationaltheatret) |
Then we went to Aker brygge...
... where we got the first ice-cream of the season. At least for me, it was the first. Nope, it definitely wasn't cheap, but why would you expect anything different in Oslo? :P Also, props to Paradis Gelateria: they understood the word "vegan", could point out all the vegan flavours when I asked (all the fruit sorbets and a vegan chocolate flavour!), and even the cones were vegan! :) (I don't like taking my ice-cream in a cup because of the unnecessary waste, but I don't want unnecessary animal products in my cone either...)
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| Chocolate & strawberry :) |
Afterwards, we took the ferry for a round trip in the Oslofjord. This time, it was possible to stay outside for the whole trip for the first time. Ok, it was also much more crowded than in February and March. But at least, there wasn't a massive queue for our ferry - unlike for the Hovedøya ferry. (They changed the ferry schedule a bit, with a separate ferry for this island, while the Øyene round trip ferry doesn't go there anymore.) I'm kind of looking forward to the "summer" timetable for the ferries though. :D
After the ferry trip, we continued walking through the city centre:
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| Operahuset, once again. :P |
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| Barcode area |
Yeah, and that was the day when I got my first sunburn in Oslo. It was well-deserved (and it usually happens in March already when I'm in Germany. The issues of being pale and underestimating the strength of the sun in spring...)
On Sunday (and Monday...), I left Cornelia my key cards so she could continue to explore Oslo on her own while I had to go to school and deal with my group term paper. (I'm proud to announce that we finished and submitted it by now!) To compensate, we had a waffle night at my place on Sunday, properly celebrating the last evening, since Cornelia went back to Bergen on Monday. I heard the weather was quite Bergen-like on the whole train ride...
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