Friday, December 01, 2006

A walk down Karl Johan, part 2

Hello! and Welcome to an update on this site on Norway By
a norwegian.

Okay, lets again take a dive into the main street in Oslo "Karl
Johan". The start of the street that begins with the Royal palace closeby, is truly
the best part of it, like I have said before. The best shops is placed here. You have
the shopping center "Paleet" wich houses 42 shops and 7 eating places. Here you can
buy lots of different things, but there are mostly high expensive designer clothes
that you will find here. But there are also some electronic shops, like the new
Sony center shop wich is nice. And there are a comicbook shop and a normal bookstore
here that is a nice place to visit. The restaurants here are really high quality, but also
probably one of the most expensive in the entire city. Going out from this somewhat small
shopping center, and going futher down.

You will mostly see more restaurants by the left side. The truth is that there aint much
to see going down this street at all. There are no great statues or buildings or anything like
that. There just are average looking shops, that you have seen a thousand times before.
So for a tourist this is not so great spending a lot of time here, in my opinion. There are better
places to be than here. A new attraction on the Karl Johan street, is that you can hop on a
sightseeing bus. That will take you to many important places in Oslo. I would recommend
that tourist takes this oportunity, go here for a look where the bus goes!

Going more straight down the main street, I would recommed that you visit the shopping
center called "Steen og Strøm" on the right side. It is newly enhanced with a better apperance,
and looks invited and sweet. The prices here are high, very high indeed. So you better have
much money to spend, if you go in here, with the purpose of buying things.
This is a number one thruth about Oslo, it is an EXPENSIVE town indeed. But then again
that goes for almost every city in Norway, is isnt cheap to be a tourist here.
This is the end of part 2 about Karl johan. Look for more info in my next update,
"Karl Johan, Part3!"