Downtown

One of the entrances to the metro, in front of Byporten shoppingcenter.

Photo by: Stormel

Akerselva again

This is another photo from the Akerselva river in Oslo. A lovely evening photo from Anne-Sophie. :-)

Akerselva

We are so lucky to have another guest blogger. This photo is by André and his photo is from the river that devides Oslo in two: Akerselva river.

The river starts from the large lake Maridalsvannet (which also is the drinking water for a large part of Oslo's population). The river runs for 8.2 kilometers before it ends in the Oslo fjord and offers nice walks for those who are interested:

Follow the river Akerselva from Maridalsvannet to the centre of Oslo.
8 km with recreation, through forests and old history, fishing, swimming and several waterfalls. The highest waterfall is next to "Hønse-Lovisas hus", a small, red house, and the Beier bridge.

(From VisitOslo)

Here's a page about Winter Walk along the river Akerselva. And here's yet another page about the river walk for tourists in Oslo.

Fagerborg kirke

This is a lovely night-time photo of Fagerborg kirke (church), taken by our new guest blogger Anne-Sophie from Oslo gjennom mine øyne (Oslo seen through my eyes). She has a really nice photo blog in Norwegian, but you don't need to know the language to see the beauty and humour in her photos. :-)

Grassy roof

A quite new house, but built in the old style with grassy roof. It's quite cosy, I think. :-)

Photo by: Lothiane

Isn't this sad?

A while back we told you they are tearing down the skijump Holmenkollen, and this is what it looks like now. Not much left, just these sad parts. To the left you can see the Holmenkollen Park Hotel, a beautiful wooden building.

Photo by: Lothiane

Let's rest for a while

This cat has obviously found a nice place to rest; on top of a car that is still warm. :-)

Photo by: Lothiane

Why I don't like winter

A lot of people have a romantic view of what winter is like. This is mostly people who don't have snow where they live, and have probably never experienced winters at all. At least not the winters we usually have in Oslo.

Let me tell you what it's like:

It snows and it looks really nice for a short while. Then it starts melting and we get some kind of grey "soup" that we call "slaps". Slaps is horrible, really, but it gets even worse. After some days of melting and a lot of slaps, it may get colder again. In fact it gets so cold that the "slaps" freeze and the ground turn icy. This makes it very interesting to go out for a walk, sometimes you even end up in the hospital.

In this photo you get a good look at what the frozen "slaps" looks like. ;)

Photo by: Lothiane

Monday morning

I woke up to this view today. Beautiful, don't you think? :o)

Photo by: Stormel

November

Photo by: Stormel