Irish visitors

The president of Ireland, Mary McAleese, visited Oslo last week, and there were lots of Irish and Norwegian flags outside the castle, and in Karl Johan Street.

Photo by: Stormel

Awarded

Today I got this really nice surprise. Oslo Daily Photo received a "Blogging Friends Forever" Award from Ystad Daily Photo. Ystad has been my favourite daily photo blog for a long time, and I just love his pictures. A very inspiring blog! Thank you, Fredrik! :o)

I need to specify that Oslo Daily Photo had not existed without Lothiane, Mark and Imzadi, so of course I share this award with them! :o)

Now it is our turn to give the award to other bloggers following these rules:

1. Only five people are allowed
2. Four have to be dedicated followers of your blog
3. One has to be someone new or recently new to your blog and live in another part of the world
4. You must link back to whoever gave you the award

It's really hard to choose only five, but these are the ones we choose (random order):

1. Grenoble Daily Photo (Bleeding Orange)
2. Edinburgh Daily Photo (Dido)
3. Ramsey Daily Photo (Babooshka)
4. Copenhagen Daily Photo (Kathrine)
5. Auckland Daily Photo (Lachezar)

Akershus Fortress

A view of Akershus Fortress one nice, sunny day in the harbour of Oslo.

Photo by: Lothiane

Warm autumn light

Photo by: Mark Wilkinson

The old queen

The statue of princess Maud of Wales, who married Prince Carl - later King Haakon VII of Norway. She was the first queen of Norway in modern time, after hundreds of years of oppression by Denmark and Sweden. The royal palace of Oslo in the background.

Photo by: Mark Wilkinson

Foggy morning view

Early autumn morning fog.

Photo by: Lothiane

The end of Holmenkollen

This is the end of the old ski jump, Holmenkollen. They are planning to build a new ski jump and yesterday they started removing this famous landmark. It's sad, but nothing we can do about it. Here's a link to a video presentation of how they are going to tear it down.

We've showed you several photos from Holmenkollen and the area before on this blog. Please visit again. And in a couple of years we'll be able to show you photos of the new ski jump. It's supposed to be ready in 2010.



Photos by: Lothiane

Bygdøy

Ocean salt and wet and deep
As of many eyes that weep
Everyone's alone

(From Berceuse by André Bjerke)

Picture taken at Bygdøy, a very popular area in the summer. People go here to swim and sunbathe. I prefer it in the autumn when it's more quiet.

Photo by: Lothiane

Train safety

Safety instructions at the underground.

Photo by: Stormel

A huge puddle

It was raining a lot last week!

Photo by: Stormel