After two days of work in Oslo for a client of mine I spend one night and a day walking, eating, drinking and driving in Oslo (hmmm, I didn’t do the last two on the same day by the way, I know the Norwegian fines). The last time I actually visited Oslo was about ten years ago (I’m not counting times I visited the Gardemoen airport, about one hour from Oslo). I was actually positively surprised about it. I didn’t remember all of it and what amazed me was the fact that it’s a really hip and trendy city with lots of cool design building and other freaky design things.

A friend of mine from Sweden came over for a night and we had a good laugh, great food right next to the harbor in a a place called Food and Wine (can’t remember the Norwegian translation). After having finished our dinner we went to a couple of bars (Mr. John or something like that and a couple of other ones, of which I can’t remember the name).

The day after was really cool. With my friend’s car we drove through what he called the Beverly Hills of Oslo. I knew there were all kinds of little Islands in the Oslo Fjord, but I didn’t know they had built really nice summer houses there with excellent views. In between the islands, the sea is filled with lots of boats. Definitely a place I could spend some time later…

All-in-all, a really cool city to spend some time during a weekend!