Oslo
After leaving Berlin, my friend Mattea and I went to visit her cousins in Norway! They were so nice and let us participate in some of their Christmas traditions including singing carols around the tree (outside at night in the cold!) with their neighbors and eating lots of Christmas cookies.
Opera House
Of course, the number one thing on my Oslo bucket list was the opera house by Snøhetta! It lived up to all my expectations and was quite slippery trying to walk up the ramp in the icy snow! But I survived and am very inspired.
Norsk Folkemuseum
The Norwegian Museum of Cultural History was an unexpected highlight of the trip! It was so cool to get to see a bunch of traditional Norwegian buildings. The old church was incredible and it had such detailed carving.
Architecture Museum
Of course, I had to go to the Architecture Museum. It was actually really cool! They had a bunch of old hand drawings by famous Norwegian architects and an exhibition about the future of architecture in Norway.
Sledding!
Mattea’s cousins insisted we go sledding at Korketrekkeren. I was wary at first but it was so fun! It’s a 2km long toboggan run and you take the train back up the top. There were incredible views of the city lights along the way.
If walls could dream… they’d dream of sledding down a mountain in Norway!
