Walking along the streets on Friday, a easter public holiday was brillant. No crowds, no cars. Just peaceful moments to enjoy the different architecture around. There are so many different style of architectures around that made the walk interesting.
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| City Hall |
With a baby in tow, finding a reasonable priced and central location hotel/apartment was important. I took a leap of faith and chose an apartment hotel, My City Home for this trip. Reason being cheap, right in the centre of major attractions and shopping area, and comes with a kitchen where we could dine in when baby is grumpy and prepare his food too. It is quite a hassle when baby just started solid food and has limited choices.
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| Pardon the mess. There you see the kitchen and living room area. |
Both of us are not an art person, so our choices of attractions to visit are either science or history based. We joined a 7 hours grand tour which brings us to Holmenkollen Ski Museum, Vigeland Park, Viking Ship Museum, Polar Fram Museum, Kon tiki Museum, city tour and a 2 hour cruise. This tour covers most of the attractions we intended to visit. We don't have the habit of joining tour but based on my research, the hop-on-hop-off bus was not operating till summer. To save the hassle of taking public transport, we joined and regretted.
Don't be mistaken. The tour was great. We had a humorous tour guide and every museum visit was explained in details. If you want an overview, join the tour. Save your walking energy.
Regret number 1: the hop-on-hop-off was in service! We could have used that to avoid the rush of the tour and have a calmer baby.
Regret number 2: due to baby being over tired, he started crying just as we were about to go for the cruise. So, we skipped and missed it!
I would advise to read up on Vigeland Park before going if you are visiting on your own. It is a park full of statues and each with its own meaning. It will be quite meaningless if you just look thru without knowing.
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| Vigeland Park. Full of statues everywhere. |
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| I'm imagining my son to behave like that. |
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| Our look so serious yet so humorous tour guide. |
Anticipation of the ski museum built up with the awesome overview of the city and the glimpse of the ski ramp if that's what it's called. Standing at the viewing point of the ski ramp made my legs jelly just by looking at it. How did they get the courage to even ski down? As the guide told us, you only have 4.5 seconds to recover. Gosh!
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| Looking at the steepness make me sweat. |
All 3 Viking ship, polar fram and kon tiki museums are all about ships. But the history was quite interesting. I'm not going to elaborate here, worth a short and quick visit though. On the way to polar fram museum from viking ship museum, you will pass by the summer house of the royals. Looks very nice and relaxed with a huge garden.
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| Viking Ship Museum |
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| We are getting good at selfie shots. |
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| Polar Fram Museum |
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| My son, the Eskimo |
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| On board the polar fram ship |
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| Kon tiki Museum |
We took a walk around Akershus Fortress and castle on our own. Nice walk but nothing very fantastic. Could give it a miss if you are running out of time.
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| Akershus Fortress and castle |
Aker Brygge is a must go place for dinner. It has a totally different vibes from other parts. It wakes you up. We had dinner at Onda, a seafood restaurant. Costly it was but everything is expensive there anyway. Lobster was so fresh and sweet, smoked salmon and fish soup tasted so good where cod fish was mediocre but interesting with the sauce. Dessert was a Movenpick ice cream along the walk back to hotel. I still prefer such ice cream to gelato. Personal preference though.
Plenty of shops to go around but we just didn't have enough time.
It was a short and sweet weekend. More lessons learnt when travelling with our little boy. It is just going to be a on-going learning journey for us.
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