Our Neighbour, Oslo, Day 2

It is the 2nd day of Oslo and we had time to walk around the city centre amid the rainy weather.

The sights above include Karl Johans Gate - the principal shopping street in Oslo, Stortinget (with a round facade) - the building housing the Norwegian Parliament and University of Oslo (with the columns)..

Next up is the National Theatre and the Royal Palace of the Norwegian Royal Family at the end of Karl Johans Gate.

We just walked up abt a kilometre plus up Karl Johans Gate in the rain, and here I'm trying to give it a goodbye kiss! This is where they will have their annual celebrations for National Day on 17 May! This year is sort of a double joy for Norway as their representative had just won the Eurovision singing contest on 16 may in Moscow! In May 2010, the Eurovision final will be held in Oslo due to this victory...

More sights of the city: pretty roadside flowers

but the song says "路边的野花不要踩"!

A yellow-brown building at a corner of the street, and an art-piece seemingly made out of aluminium foil in the centre of a roundabout. Plus some simply-designed chairs on the street which I simply had to press my butt on to give it a try!

Saw this juxtaposition of a modern building fronted by a old chimney - there's also one inside my school KTH.. And then we stopped by this cafe for some cafe mocha - a big bowl, before & after shots..

Saw a cafe selling pretty macarons french style along the way. And then it was time for lunch before our train back to Stockholm. We had Thai food at Rice Bowl near Youngstorget (kinda recommended) and we are so happy to have tom yam soup with kway teow and pad-thai! It had been such a long time since we had fish-balls and beansprouts! Really took them for granted when we were in S'pore!

Finally, we were at the Byporten Shopping Centre to grab some snacks for the 6hr-plus train ride. A view of the relatively small central station of Oslo - Oslo Sentralstasjon.
That's all for Oslo, folks! Nothing much at all in the city centre, not so worth a trip in itself. Perhaps you need to visit the Fjords in the west coast to make a detour to the Norway worth it!