Travel Man: Oslo
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If Richard Ayoade and Fay Ripley’s wintry weekend in Oslo on Travel Man made you want to see the city for yourself, this bookable three-day itinerary is built to get you there. It sends you hurtling down an Olympic toboggan run, out across the fjord by boat, and into a Norwegian capital that knows how to eat and play. The link below opens the full trip, where you can change, edit, or lengthen any part of it.
A Toboggan Run Built for the Olympics
Start with the headline act. Take the Metro up the hill to Korketrekkeren, a run that began life as a bobsleigh track for the 1952 Winter Olympics. Now you ride it on a toboggan, and riders hit around 25 miles per hour on the way down. Yes, you will scream. Then you will climb back up and do it again. It is the kind of thing you do not forget, and it gives the whole weekend a story to tell.
Your base is Citybox Oslo, the itinerary hotel, so you can head out into the cold and come back to somewhere warm.
Oslo on the Water
Oslo sits at the head of a fjord scattered with islands, and the itinerary gets you out onto it. The Oslo Pass opens the door to the city’s sights, and an island-hopping trip by boat takes you across the water from one island to the next. The B1 Oslofjord Island Ferry is on the list too, a simple way to hop between islands on your own schedule. Out on the fjord, the city shrinks behind you and the horizon opens up.
Eat, Drink, and Take a Seat
Oslo rewards a big appetite. Kontrast is on the itinerary’s list of places to visit, the stop for a serious dinner out. For something quicker, Syverkiosken keeps you fed between sights, and the National Theatre is a grand stop when you want a cultural change of pace.
Add the Sculpture and the Waterfront
Sculpture was part of the episode, and Oslo has plenty. Add a visit to Vigeland Sculpture Park, where the Monolith, a towering column of carved human figures, steals the show. And for a landmark on the water, add the Oslo Opera House, the angular white building at the edge of the fjord that is as much a sight as a stage.
Open the trip below to see the full itinerary, then adjust the days, stops, and extras to fit the way you want to travel.
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