Oslo

Tak som sa konecne dostal do Osla. Oslo lezi v juznej casti Norka na konci Oslofjordu. Do roku 1805 sa volalo Kristiania, ale potom sa Nori odtrhli od Danska, vytvorili Uniu so Svedmi a premenovali hlavne mesto. Autobus mi odchadzal 7:30 a o tri a pol hodiny som uz prichadzal do Osla. Je dobre, ze Trysilekspress chodi niekolkokrat denne a prechadza aj cez letisko, cim sa doprava nan alebo do Osla ulahcuje. Ked clovek prijde do Osla, naskytne sa mu krasny pohlad. Centrum mesta v kotline, vsade naokolo domy v lese na ubociach a more, ktore sa taha cez fjord niekde do dialky. Na stanici si ma vyzdvihla moja area representative Sabine. Je to Nemka z Rostocku, ktora studuje skandinavistiku a uz tri roky zije v Osle, kde pracuje pre STS a uci Norov pracujucich pre LIDL po nemecky. Videl som celkom dost z Osla v ten den. Najprv sme prechadzali cez Karl Johans gate, ktora vedie az ku palacu. Ukazali mi sidlo STS v jednej z bocnych uliciek. Koncom decembra alebo v januari by mali mat vsetci zahranicni studenti z Norska stretavku. Je tam vela Nemcov tento rok. Skoncil som celkom na dobrom mieste. Jedna je v Stavangeri a druha az na Lofotach. Budu mat peknu zimu:-) Na celej ulici bolo mnoho poulicnych spevakov a umelcov, ktory si privyrabali svojim umenym. Jeden tam zongloval futbalovou laptou s barlami a hlavou. Z Karl Johans gate sme odbocili do jednej ulicky a vosli do narodnej galerie. Ja velmi muzea a galerie nemusim, ale tato bola vyborna. Norske obrazy su podmanujuce. Umelci dokazali presne zachytit prirodu a vyzeralo to skoro tak dobre ako na fotkach. Ale aj abstraktne a modernisticke obrazy od norskych maliarov boli zaujimave. Okrem tychto sa tam nachadzali aj obrazy mnohych znamych autorov ako Manet, Cezanne. Mali tam dokonca autoprtret Van Gogha. Jedna cela miestnost bola venovana norskemu najvacsiemu maliarovi Edvardovi Munchovi. Jeho obrazy boli .... zvlastne. Take Lynchovske. Potom sme si zvonku pozreli Stortinget, sidlo norskeho parlamentu, Slott, sidlo kralovskej rodiny, narodne divadlo a pristav. Nasledne sme zacali hladat nejaku restauraciu, lebo sme boli dost hladni. Tak mi to pripada, ze Nori v sobotu nevaria, ale chodia do restauracii:-) Nakoniec sme predsa len nasli jednu volnu cinsku. Ptom sme nasadli na metro a vyviezli sme sa cez les popri domcekoch z O m na asi 400 m.n.m k Hollmenkollenu. Je to skokansky mostik, kde sa sutazilo pocas OH '52. Z tadial sme sli hore hore kopcom k jednemu "salasu" odkadial sa nam skytal krasny vyhlad na cele mesto a more. O kusok vyssie bola stanica metra, z kadial sme sa zviezli dole na stanicu, aby som este stihol bus naspat. Vratil som sa asi o desiatej, zjedol zvysky soba, lebo som od obeda nejedol a siel spat.

So I finally visited Oslo. Oslo lies at the end of Oslofjord in the southern part of Norway. Until 1905, it was called Kristiania, but then they formed The Union with Sweden and renamed the city. The bus left 7:30. It is good, that Trysilekspress leaves many times a day and goes also through the airport, so it is easy to come there or to Oslo. We entered Oslo after 3,5 hours driving and it was a magnificient view. City centre in the valley surrounded by hills covered with trees and houses and Oslofjord making it's way to the south. On the busstation I was picked by my area representative Sabine. She comes from Rostock, Germany and is studying scandinavistic. She's been living in Oslo for 3 years now. She works for STS student agency and also teaches the Norwegians, who work for LIDL, German. We went up the Karl Johans gate, which was full of street artists. One guy was juggling with football helping himself with head and crunches. Sabine showed me the office of STS. Every foreign student from STS in Norway is invited to a meeting in the end of December or in January. There are many Germans here this year. I found out, that Trysil is quite a good place, some of the students ended in Stavanger or in The Lofotes. I wish them a nice winter:-) Then we turned into one street and went in the Natinal Gallery. I do not usually like museums and galleries, but this one was awesome. Both pictures from nature and modernistic pictures from Norwegian authors were very interesting and not boring. There was one room only with Edvard Munch's paintings. He was the greatest Norwegian painter. His paintings were, ehm....... strange. Kind of David Lynch's movies. Then we got out and we visited Stortinget, the building of parliament, Slott, the estate of the royal family, National theatre and sea shore. After that we tried to find a restaurant, but it looked like all the Norwegians eat out on Saturdays. Finally we managed to find one chinese restaurant. After the lunch we took the tube and went 400 m higher to Holmenkollen. This was the place for skijumpers during the OG '52. Then we went up and up and were rewarded with a great view over the city. We took the tube back so I managed to take the bus home at 18:20. I returned at 22:00, ate the rests of moose and went to sleep.