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Oslo City Guide: The Best Museums, Neighbourhoods, and Experiences

Oslo City Guide: The Best Museums, Neighbourhoods, and Experiences

Oslo is a capital city on its own terms — not trying to compete with London or Paris, but increasingly confident in what it does uniquely well. At roughly 700,000 people, it combines genuine city amenities with remarkable proximity to nature: you can...

How Much Does Norway Cost? A Realistic Travel Budget

How Much Does Norway Cost? A Realistic Travel Budget

Norway is expensive. There is no way around this. The country consistently ranks among the 5 most expensive countries in the world, with a cost of living index that places Oslo above London, Paris, and New York. For travellers arriving from most of E...

Oslo's Viking Ship Museum: The World's Best-Preserved Viking Vessels

Oslo's Viking Ship Museum: The World's Best-Preserved Viking Vessels

On the Bygdøy peninsula — Oslo's museum quarter — stands a cross-shaped building of modest exterior and extraordinary interior. The Viking Ship Museum (Vikingskipshuset) holds what is beyond reasonable argument the finest collection of original Vikin...