Inside look at the capital of Norway - Oslo, Part 1

This is the first Part, in a coming series of posts, that will cover all kinds of aspects on Oslo.

I will give you the real thruth about what is what, and how it really is. The idea is to try to be as
objective as humanly possible. Although it is in fact impossible to manage to be objective
to anything 100%, this will be like 90% objective or something like that ;)

Lets start this post with one obvious sight in the real center of the city. The main street that goes, all the way from the royal palace and down to the railway station "Karl Johan". Walking down this street, that every tourist in the world will, when coming to Oslo. I will tell you this is both enjoyable and exicting, but dissapointing and unpleasant experience. Before i explain this further, lets take a look at a picture I have taken of the street I will talk about here. This is how "Karl Johan" looks in early winter time: (remember the winters are long and hard in Norway, so this is how the street looks most of the time in the year.)


Let me ask you, does this looks like a pleasant place to be? The Answer it NO, by the way, for many reasons. To start with the look of the buildings that lay alle around the street. Apart from the Royal Palace at were the street starts, the rest is grey-looking, and depressing. The best part of this street is deffinately in the beginning. Because the longer you go down to the end by the trainstation, the more filth you will see. By that I mean both how filthy the street looks with garbage all over, and all that. But also the people going around here. There are lots of drugs being dealt by the trainwaystation, just as you know that. So you dont need a very creative mind to figure at how unpleasant, it is to go around people dealing drugs, and that kind of stuff. I leave it to this for now. I will go alot deeper in all of the aspects about Karl Johan next time, and other Oslo related information then. Stay tuned for Part2.