We got to Oslo by a short and very inexpensive Ryanair flight from Warsaw's Modlin airport.
The bus from the Rygge airport to the centre of Oslo takes about 60 minutes. These office buildings look very interesting, but the best place to see them seems to be the platforms of the central train station:
Oslo is quite compact, it reminds me of Amsterdam, and is also a port. From the train station hall you can see ferries that connect Oslo with cities in Denmark and Germany.
The city centre is surprisingly quiet. There are very few cars. Buses use tram lanes when needed:
I like plants in the cities, if grass can grow between tram tracks, great!
I was looking for street art. The best I found outdoors was this advertisement for milk chocolate. I was in Oslo only one day though.
I like the human scale of these buildings, like in Amsterdam:
An older and newer train, see the rust in these pictures? The climate is harsh:
This is a Norwegian tilting train capable of going 210 km/h. Next time I'm in Norway I will try to get on it:
The famous opera building - the roof is walkable and slides down all the way to the sea:
I have no idea what this building is, but it reminds me of the Hollywood Tower from Disney:
The Oslo City Hall building:
The National Theatre building is a symbol of a strong Norwegian presence in classical music.
The Norwegian resistance museum - it is much bigger on the inside than on the outside:
Neutral Norway was attacked by Germany on 9th April 1940. From the Polish perspective, the interesting thing is that Polish soldiers together with Norwegian, British, and French won the first major battle against Germans in WWII in May 1940 at Narvik:
German propaganda poster inviting Norwegians to join Waffen-SS in the fight against Bolsheviks:
Symbol of Norwegian resistance - H7 stands for Haakon VII - the king of Norway who escaped to the UK:
Finally, a few intriguing statues from the Vigeland sculpture park:
