Oslo in pictures

Just before Christmas we took a little trip to Oslo for the weekend, to enjoy some serious snow! We woke up on the first morning to this:

It was super cold, and we stocked up on thermals before we went. However, we were amazed at how life simply goes on as normal with such heavy snow yet grinds to a standstill when we have just a couple of centimetres in England!

We got ourselves an 'Oslo pass' on the first day, which worked out really good value as it got us onto buses and into all of the attractions and museums for free.

One of the highlights was seeing two versions of The Scream at the Edvard Munch gallery, which was really fantastic having studied the painting in my school art lessons! (See Jimmy doing his best 'Scream' impression!)

Many of Oslo's museums are on Bygdoy, which is a peninsula to the Western side of Oslo. This was great as we headed over there and were able to walk from museum to museum around the island. We saw a lot of boats including the Polar Ship Fram, Kon Tiki (to the left) and some Viking boats.




We also visited the Norwegian Folk museum, probably my favourite as it was an open air museum that allowed you to walk around houses and buildings through the ages.






However, the best was yet to come...on the Sunday we went toboganning! Neither of us had done anything similar before, but both agreed it was awesome! We had to get on a little train up to the top of the slopes, which was pretty eerie at first as the train dropped us off in the middle of what looked like an arctic wilderness!

However, we found our way and spend the whole morning whizzing down the slopes and occasionally falling into snowdrifts (mostly me). Even Reginald enjoyed himself!

An amazing weekend away, and a fantastic way to get in the festive spirit!