We got personal guide tour to this amazing place. Located in central of the city and well known…read morefor the amazing mural and the annual Nobel ceremony celebration. Huge main floor and brick wall covered with events taken place here with informations. Quite a unique place to check out.

Oslo City Hall wasn't open most of this week due to local elections but we finally got inside on…read moreour last day. City Hall was an imposing building of brick. The long driveway up included covered walkways with mounted wooden carvings depicting scenes from Nordic mythology. Each scene included a bilingual explanation which was helpful to learn the context. Well worth the time to see these. Inside only the first floor was opened for visitors on the day of our visit. It was cavernous with much higher ceilings than I expected. The wall murals were spectacular. A small display on one of the offshoot halls contained some details about the annual Nobel Peace Prize ceremony. Downstairs were the WCs and cafeteria. At least free to entry versus some other Scandinavian city halls!

I actually just walked the outside of the castle. The grounds were gorgeous. There were various…read morefruit trees. Oranges and crab apples. The large crab apple tree planted in the center of the large lawn was so abundant that there were tons of over ripened ones that had fallen all over and littered the lawn. This caused a bunch of bees buzzing around them on the lawn. There are also a lot of tourists walking the outer grounds of the castle, stopping to pose next to the cannons. The views of the ocean and blue skies are noteworthy. It was worth the long walk from the hotel.

Great castle with great history details in it. There is a church, burial site, dining halls,…read moreevents halls, royals bedrooms, dungeons and among others. Worth checking out for sure. Stunning architecture and the details of woodwork in each room. Locate in the edge of the hill over looking the water and the city. They do have varies courtyard and quite nice too. Really enjoyed the visit here and learned something of Nordic history.

If you're Stallone and you break into a prison camp to rescue a bunch of hostages, that's a…read morePOW-Raid. This is not that, sadly. But if you watch the Rambo movies you can see plenty of that. Honestly I used to be a big fan of Powerade. It used to kind of do it for me, but those days are gone. When I first came to the country, I balked at the taste of the Gatorade and Powerade and the other energy drinks, I thought they were bad, or like the worst things ever. Then when I was playing a lot of soccer and I needed energy, I started getting into the whole Powerade revolution, because it was all that was sold at my sports center, was cheaper than "the Gate", and I actually noticed that it seemed to give me more energy and refresh me in a way that regular water didn't, so I think there's something to be said about it. It's sweeter than Gatorade in a weird way, and so I used to like it a little bit more because it wasn't too salty. In retrospect I think it's really just that more sugar goes into the P-Ade than the G, and in that respect it's not as good for you (not that either drink is good for you), and it's also not the original, but in some regards is better, some of the flavours are better, and it does have some things going for it that Powerade doesn't. You'll just have to try it and make up your own mind.