A month has passed since I left my favourite city so far, but my love hasn't diminished yet, apparently! That's why I still feel like posting all the pictures I took and introducing other people to my ultimate (os)love. As Rachel from Friends would say 'It's so beautiful I wanna cry'. Mentally crying, I look at this beauty and I miss it everytime a bit of Freia chocolate finds its way to my mouth.
This very first pic is here just to show how fancy our opening ceremony was. Not always do you get an opportunity to eat some meatballs and macaroons in townhall in Oslo and I almost felt like a mayor but then I realized that I am not, but the experience was still cool. (Well, it looks like everything where you can get free food is pretty amazing).
Let's put everything straight. Literally. Just a brief look at this compilation of various pictures will show you that I really love outlining the lines and finding that one perfect horisontal and/or vertical and/or diagonal line in every picture. My straight-photo-OCD has become bigger recently but I am not too worried about that.
The upcoming picture is one of those I took during the first week. Still not knowing anything about the city and being way too excited about the fact that 'Hey, it's 11pm and it's not dark yet' we randomly walked around Karl Johans gate, getting there by tbane to use our super expensive monthly pass as much as possible.
#StortingetTbaneStasjon
But it's only a tiny-tiny part of my Oslover that you need to see. Time for the rest!
Let me introduce you - Vigeland Parken. With thousands of naked people it's, surprisingly, not a nudists' place.
However, with all its models, Vigeland Parken it's not my favourite spot in the city. Damestredet and Telthusbakken may seem so, but it's still not the All time top 1 destination!
It was my third week in Oslo when I went for a walk to explore this three places. Together with my norwegian-speaking companion we wanted to see a little bit more of the city, that's why we just walked wherever we could. And tried. We tried. We tried really hard to get lost. We tried and tried and when we almost got to this point when we didn't know where we were - we realised that we knew. Inner G-maps couldn't have been more unuseful. However, we still did manage to explore Grunnerløkka, wich is my almost favourite area.
Because you have to walk long enough... Long enough to find some bridges...
,..And then pass by some geometric buildings that could be a headquarter for D2squared.
And when it comes to this Opera House... Before my adventure I only had one plan - to see this geometric and a little bit stiff Snow White in the morning (actually Snow White was quite stiff too while laying in the glass coffin, so maybe it wasn't the best comparison). Well, 6 weeks seemed long enough to make it without rush, but I only managed to do that on the very last day of Summer School. Friday, 31st July, after 24h without sleep (and there was still 20 more hours til another bedtime, but at that point I didn't know that) I enjoyed the most calming and pure view ever. That's definitely how my definition of heaven looks like - lots of lines, geometric figures, no crowds, nice company and white. A lot of white.
Because white not, right?
Okay, I lied. There's this place where I'd rather go than sit on the rooftop of the Opera House.
Here it is, last but not least - Ekebergparken. (or maybe the picture showing the view over the city from the Ekebergparken). This place is a paradise and there's no wonder that it's 'Paradise' by Coldplay that makes me think about all the times I visited this place. Belinda Carlisle once sang that Heaven is a place on earth, but to be more precise - heaven is a place on a hill, Ekeberg hill.
And it is probably the first time my entry doesn't containt usual amount of poor puns and linguistic jokes, but sometimes we all need to be a little bit more nostalgic and serious.
