Oslicante Part 1: Oslo

Before exams in Edinburgh, they give you a reading week where you don't have class or exams. A WHOLE WEEK. So naturally, Sasha, my friend Zach and I decided to take a trip. Zach wanted to go to Scandinavia and Sasha wanted to go to Spain so we found a 15 euro flight from Oslo to Alicante, Spain and made a plan. We arrived in Oslo on a Tuesday afternoon but it was already dark because it gets dark around 3:30 in Oslo.

The start of a great trip:

The first night, we basically just walked around downtown and got Mexican food at a place called Mucho Mas. Despite the name meaning "much more" in Spanish, it was a very good albeit overpriced burrito.

The next day we decided to take the metro/train outside of downtown up the mountain to see the whole city. The view was incredible! Downtown Oslo is would be down the mountain to the left in this picture.

Then we preceded to walk around this neighborhood, called Holmenkollen. We saw the Olympic ski jump stadium, a very Norwegian church and a large Viking sculpture.

After that, Zach really wanted to go to the Folkemuseum which was is essentially an outdoor Norwegian history museum. It is organized like an old Norwegian village. 

After having lunch at a nearby cafe, it was nearing sunset and we wanted to see the Vigeland sculptures in Frogner Park. If you do anything is Oslo, you should see these sculptures at sunset because it is amazing!

(The pond was icing over at the beginning of December)

At this point, we were slightly exhausted from doing Oslo in basically one day so we went to the Christmas markets, got some mulled wine and got dinner at a very nice place kind of near the Grunerløkka neighborhood. 

The next day, we saw the opera house, a building Oslo is known for, before heading to the airport for Alicante!