Gone fishing...:))

When I was a little girl, my dad used to take me with him, to some lakes outside town ... He was fishing and I used to collect the little ones in my fishing bag! Awsome memories!

For the first time ever, my own fishing session, ended up with ... a single fish...it's not a faboulous amount, but I was happy with my first achievement. Not mentioning a big one escaped along with my bait!!

Still love to fish though!I think the poor fish died stragled by my own hadns ( because of the excitement), not cause it was out of the water...sorry fishy!that was not the bait....

ancient Oslo

Coming in Norway and not seeing The Viking Ship Museum , it's like going to Paris without seeing La Tour Eiffel. A single word to describe these 3 ancient ships: incredible!

Oseberg Ship

It is part of the Museum of Cultural History of the University of Oslo, and houses archaeological finds from Tune, Gokstad (Sandefjord), Oseberg (Tønsberg) and the Borre mound cemetery. The museum displays the Viking Age Oseberg ship, Gokstad ship and Tune ship alongside sledges, beds, a (horse) cart, wood carving, tent components, buckets and other grave goods.In the Viking Ship Museum visitors enter and immediately face the Oseberg Ship. If you walk past the ship, you can reache the centre of the museum, with artefacts from the Oseberg discovery right in front, the Gokstad Ship to the left and the Tune Ship to the right. The Museum also has a balcony that is open to the public with a beautiful view from above of the Oseberg Ship and Gokstad Ship. On the mezzanine above the entrance there are thematic exhibitions.next stop: The Fram Museum The museum shows the history of the polar explorers. Here you’ll find the world’s most famous polar ship, the Fram, from 1892. The ship is displayed in its original condition with interior and objects perfectly preserved. Every visitor is welcome on board! The museum tells the story of the Norwegian polar expeditions, who also represent international history in the field of polar exploration: Nansen's journey across the Polar ocean and his attempt to go to the North Pole, Sverdrup's expedition to Greenland, a voyage where more than 200 000 square kilometers of unchartered land was discovered, and Amundsens journey to the South Pole, the discovery of the Northwest Passage and his attempt to reach the North Pole by plane and airship. The exhibitions in the museum have a representative selection of animals from the Polar region, like polar bears and penguins.

After visiting these beautiful pieces of art since ancient times, a bit of rest taking a sunbath near the North Sea shoreit's a YES SIR!

Oslo fjord

Oslo City Hall Last year I didin't had the chance to visit the city hall inside, so I didn't missed it now. The paintings on the walls were very interesting.Here is some more detailed info about it :

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Oslo City Hall (Norwegian: Oslo rådhus) houses the City Council, City administration, and art studios and galleries. The construction started in 1931, but was paused by the outbreak of World War II, before the official inauguration in 1950.

Its characteristic architecture, artworks, and the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony makes it one of Oslo's most famous buildings. It was designed by Arnstein Arneberg and Magnus Poulsson. The roof of the eastern tower has a 49-bell carillon which plays every hour.
It is situated in Pipervika in central downtown Oslo. The area was completely renovated and rebuilt to make room for the new City Hall, back in the late 1920's.

In June 2005 it was named Oslo's "structure of the century", with 30.4% of the votes.
Nobel prize for peace is given to the winner on 10th of December each year in Oslo city hall.

My lunch consisted of a sandwich that I was forced to share with the seagulls that circled me as soon as I sat on the bench near the sea...Damn, they are so selfish and quarellsome when it comes to food!Aker Brygge- the best part of the Oslo fjord

It was full of pleasure boats, cruisers, yachts. Having a boat in Norwey it's like having a car.

some kids amusements :))

Aker Brigge

Like other people (not the ones from Romania, that's for sure!!), the norwegians are very relaxed. The kids were free to bath in a fountain in the middle of a very select part of the rich Oslo.

The next stop was the Akershus Fortress or Akershus Castle (Akershus Festning, Akershus slott) - old castle built to protect Oslo.The first work on the castle started around the late 1290s, by King Håkon V, replacing Tønsberg as one of the two most important Norwegian castles of the period (the other being Båhus). It was constructed in response to the Norwegian nobleman, Earl Alv Erlingsson of Sarpsborg’s earlier attack on Oslo.

The fortress has never been successfully captured by a foreign enemy. It surrendered without combat to Nazi Germany in 1940 when the Norwegian government evacuated the capital in the face of the unprovoked German assault on Denmark and Norway (see Operation Weserübung). During World War II, several people were executed here by the German occupiers. Akershus fortress is still a military area, but is open to the public daily until 9pm. In addition to the castle, the Norwegian Armed Forces museum and the Norwegian Resistance museum can be visited there.

wonderful Oslo

I'm starting to fall in love with this city day by day...there are soooo many things to see and visit in Oslo, lots of museums, interesting architecture spots, gardens, castels, boats, statues, the sea, the fjord...and it's a loong list! Here are some of the main atractions in Norwey's capital.

Oslo OperaOn top of the Opera you can see a great part of the norwegian fjord, with all the cruise ships.Oslo Parliament

up&down - Vigelan's sculputures park. Amazing!
They were all body based sculptures, a day wasn't enough to contemplate them in detail.Of course, couldn't miss the theatre!

up&down - Oslo National Theatre

Grand Hotel

At the end of the day, I was exhausted and just wanted to have a snack before dinner on the balcony, breathing some fresh air and enjoying the silence.

Oslo taste...

All of my sightseeing actions began with a 4 km bicycle ride till the bus station that drove to Oslo...so I also did my body fit besides visiting :)My bro lives in one of the many islands that Oslo has, in a new complex of buildings, that I simply loved!this was the cut between the big Oslo land and the Nesoya islandthe norwegian fjord

plane to Oslo

And I'm off to Norway to see my bro and visit Oslo in detail. The hard part of the entire journey is this waiting deal that I hate...this pic is taken in Budapest airport, terminal 1...still smiling after 7 hours since I got there...had my plane to Oslo at 1 p.m.third time flying with Norwegian...had better ones.....a quick photo stop in Oslo airport, I was exhausted but happy to start my vacantion in one of the most beautiful (and expensive) cities in Europe!

Norway...here I come!

Tonight I'm leaving Baia to Budapest...Ill get to the airport at 3 a.m. and I'll have to wait until probably 11 am to have my check in...the plane to Norway should take off at 12.45... It's funny I'm gonna travel more going from Romania to Budapest(6 hours by car..bus...whatever...) than Budapest To Oslo...(2h30m).

Until the 15th of august...God...we're already august.. :O ... I'll spend my time with my bro and his future wife on an island near Oslo, where he's living, and continue my sightseein' in Oslo and the surroundings. When I was there in december, because of bad weather issues...I couldn't see all the things on the MUST List...so, hope I'll get to visit all the good staff. Just hope it won't rain too much...I saw the forecast and it's not too brighty :/

Anyway...I'll keep u guys in touch! Waiting for comments or questions!!!

P.S. I'll post some pics from my last visit to Oslo, dec 2008

the Theatre

Karl Johans, the central street in Oslo

up - The Government Building

up&down - the new Opera of Oslo