Walking Tour of Oslo

We decided to go on a walking tour on Monday, July 15. We are supposed to meet our guide next to the tiger near the Osló Central train station.

Since we were there, we did what all the other tourists do: have our photo taken next to the tiger

Our guide, Suzanah, led us to several places, including the opera house, which is supposed to look like an iceberg coming out of the waters

And a mini iceberg in the nearby waters

We saw the Munch museum, which we planned to visit on Tuesday

Byens Andre Rådhus is a former city hall building from the 17th century

If you look closely at the right part of the building, you’ll notice it’s not exactly lecvel. According to our guide, the builders were inebriated when they built it.

Johannes Finne Brun was an 18th century Norwegian actor

This is the oldest restaurant in Oslo, Café Engebret.

Oslo was originally established around 1000 AD. Built out of wood, it burned to the ground in 1624. This led to the rebuilding of Oslo closer to Akershus Fortress, and the city was renamed Christiania in honor of King Christian IV. (Later it resumed its original name in 1925.) This statue commerates King Christian pointing to the place where the rebuilt city would start. We’ll see a lot more of the fortress tomorrow.

You can always tell where out Airbnb is by looking at the tower.

Once we got down to the waterfront, we abandoned the tour and walked to our place. On the way back, we passed a guy on stilts,

a play structure in the shape of a lobster,

and the spaceman from yesterday. Here’s a view of all three:

Tomorrow we will revisit in more detail some of the places we saw today.