I have always wanted to visit Norway, so – foolishly, without doing any research on where we should actually go in the country -- in May 2013 we took a trip to Oslo, where we stayed four days. I don’t mean any offense to the Norwegians, because the people we met there were delightful, but Oslo simply was not my favorite city, and I didn’t have the greatest time there. It’s hard to remember now exactly why, but the weather was mainly miserable, the prices exorbitant, not really so much to see or do in town, places we did want to visit seemed to be closed, couldn’t even take a fjord cruise because of the pouring rain, you name it. I do recall, though, that we had a flight out at 8 p.m. on our last day there, and at 2 p.m. I was ready to go to the airport, which wasn’t more than an hour away. I just couldn’t wait to get back home to Budapest.

I did however take some pictures, and I hope they will show some of the nicer things we saw in the city. I have put off working on them for over two years due to other travels and focusing on Saudi Arabia, but I decided it was finally time to bite the bullet and do this gallery!

This was the National Theater, with some of the only blue sky we saw there.

The last of the Al Khozama Garden shadows, posted earlier