O$lo the city

We have two days in Oslo, so we decided to do one seeing the city and one seeing the surrounding nature.  So far my favorite is the opera house, which is made so you can walk up its slanted 'walls' and around on top of its roof. I suspect it's not open in for such activity in the winter though - those walls are steep, and pretty smooth.







In addition to the thoroughly modern opera house we saw the genuinely old and historic Oslo fort. It felt like a real castle, in stark contrast to the tower of London. We had no idea what it was from the outside, actually - I had guessed a university. I'm glad we decided to wander in!

If you guessed that we found these places by accident, you are right. The internet is less of a good guidebook than you might think. But wandering has gone pretty well for us, and takes a lot less planning!