Why didn't we like Oslo?! 🤭

hello a fan from Oslo in Norway I'm Josh I'm Ashley welcome to the way away if you haven't already be sure to subscribe definitely give us a like and if you haven't pressed that notification bell so you can watch more of our videos we are continuing our Nordic summer series and today we're just going to explore awesome our first stop is at a Saturday market and but as you can see it was just a few stalls it's always a strikeout when you're trying to do something just kind of local and low-key because you just never know how popular it's gonna be really when we're out and about on Saturdays I always tried to research like a local market a place to go and put the name of the local crafts maybe try some local food this time it didn't really work out the local market that I did find was not great and that's really sad although my next plan is go to old town Oslo and currently we were very close to it and and our directions said to come through this so you just kind of go with the flow especially when it's not like a big old plan thing this is literally us just exploring Oslo [Music] all right we have found old town I don't know here's the thing I don't know if we're just buying the wrong directions or if Oslo is odd because this is not maybe it's old town as in those are old buildings but it certainly is not any sort of historical or cultural center all right no you can't see that to be fair I can't see why this is called Old Town it does have some old buildings but it's not at all what we expect for like an Old Town in the European city we think of an old town like this traditional centre all right we're gonna keep looking we're gonna find something fun to do in Oslo today yeah [Music] [Applause] [Music] the Sun is out and it's a warm summer's day here in Oslo and it seems that Oh the Norwegians white-skinned is out as well we have seen people walking around the city centre without shirts on and their swords I'll be honest it's everywhere I think I've seen more shirts off in swimsuits in this degree that I have seen at most beaches I go to even in parks that are far away from the water people are laying out on towels and blankets and Santana just under center sunning yeah they need the vitamin D I think being from here in Oslo but it's kind of fun it gives summer vibes or ever yeah I've definitely noticed that in the Nordics people are really taking advantage of the Sun yeah exactly I mean we are used to Washington weather where it rains all the time so taking advantage of the Sun is one thing that I really really like to do and maybe is the Norwegian inside me that explains we're covered up from the neck [Music] all right we have finally made it to a proper like downtown area but now we're hungry so we just defended some food yeah all right we found a classic old standby Turkish kebab inspired food with toppings on it about $10 apiece which is pretty cheap for the city center so deathly kebab shops are our go-to when we need to eat something but we're in city centre and we can't cook yeah and it's it's delicious I mean that chili spice and mine pasta and then the kebab meat is pretty much always good so [Music] Filan get some food in our bellies and it's funny because until we came down here to the center Nellore centrum we haven't seen like any shopping areas there even around where we've got our Airbnb or like on the forty minute walk downtown we didn't find any shopping here like one does I got coffee shop and then like a small little grocery store hold on Ashley just rescued some child that found her mother yeah that was that was very heroic and brave of you but now we're on the main shopping street here and we're just gonna look around a little bit one thing I've noticed though you can pay with cards pretty much anywhere but not so many places have the paid to tap working and there are a lot of services like buying a metro card or a bus ticket or like getting the bikes that you can rent they require you to have a Norwegian bank card we haven't been able to get any of those things to work with our American credit card yeah so that's part of the reason why the walks here today because we haven't been able to figure out how to buy a metro ticket yet [Music] this whole downtown area it was a little hard to figure out like on our way here we saw and found nothing there's like no people yeah but now that we will I got really bright but now that we've actually made it like properly downtown there is people everywhere and like the farther we go towards this like park Palace thing we can't figure it out because I think well for whatever reason özil is just not vibing with us like we can't figure anything out we don't know where anything is but we're still enjoying [Music] funnily I was absolutely correct in my guess of what this is it is the Royal Palace Park so we're headed up to the Royal Palace and the park area to check it out [Music] kinda nights at the palace gardens are just open to everyone and they're well menu manicured mint men's man escaped landscapes manicured there's like a pagoda and their things and people are just kind of hanging out on the bank and everything there's a lot of really nice grassy areas where you can just chill out relax enjoy today [Music] it is it is strange like it has all the elements that we like in a city but for some reason Oslo is just not clicking with me yeah yeah easily I can say that is my least favorite that we've gone to in the Nordics out of all the city at all like everywhere you go and and again just to clarify there's nothing we don't like it we're just haven't found anything that's like really making it like wow I love this place [Music] like buying drinks or ice cream because it's a lot more expensive sure that's probably a big part of its beyond there's a huge body [Music] if you think all the action that's happened in aqua is down by the water we've come to really stumbled upon it yeah yeah it's called hacker Bergen which I'm probably saying wrong because I don't speak Norwegian it's where a lot of the fairies are coming in since we're waiting on fairies but also there a lot of cool restaurants right here on the water and bars that people are just chilling out yep even that fun place for a place for your kids to play shopping bars place for the kids to hang out where is it there you are and just like people everywhere there's even a bunch of great hold ships down by this waterfront it's the whole waterfront area is cool it's the whole fjords so a lot of boating a lot of water a lot of people just drinking kool-aid yeah walking around I am starting to like it down by the waterfront is the place for me I think yeah for sure we design the beer so much we've have my hope we encourage you to gather and travel today come to the Mon slope give it a shot yourselves we started to like it more once we hit the water a huge shout out to all of our patrons who helped make this video possible if you want to follow more 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Length: 10min 25sec (625 seconds)

Published: Thu Aug 22 2019