We are both awake around 7am-ish so decide to get up and have a coffee with some telly and breakfast

While doing a bit of work too, we get a bit hungry so have the rest of the Norwegian meatballs from yesterday’s dinner for a small lunch

As it gets closer to midday, we start getting ready and head out; we purchase a 24 hour Oslo train card, costing just less than £10 each, as we’ll be wanting to use it at least three times in that period

We take the train from Ensjø to Nationaltheatret where we get off and walk South

Along the way, we pick up a chicken and pesto panini to share from Narvesen; with this, we walk to pier E where we wait to board a ferry at 1:30pm

Today, we’re off to explore Oslo by water with an electric catamaran boat for a couple of hours

We’re taken first round to Bjørvika, which we visited on foot yesterday; this is where Oslo was founded around the year 1050 by Harald Hardråde who also minted the country’s first coin and fought to his death in the Battle of Stamford Bridge

Oslo’s Old Town is behind this and was established with the urban structure around the year 1000 and was selected as the capital of Norway’s dominion in 1314; the current construction work going on at the moment aims to open up the waterfront to make the areas along the fjord more accessible to Oslo’s inhabitants and visitors

There’s a pink building, often called “The pink palace of Bjørvika” is Havnelageret, which is a big harbour storage building, built in the period 1916-20 and designed by architect Bredo Henrik Berntsen

When Havnelageret was completed in 1921, it was the largest concrete building in Europe and the largest building in the Nordic countries; the building was so substantial that the 4th floor was used as an air-raid shelter during the Second World War

The Opera House of Oslo opened in April 2008; it’s award-winning design was the work of the Norwegian architectural firm, Snøhetta

The building was built to resemble a glacier, and the main building material is Italian Carrera marble; the special design makes it possible to walk on the roof

As we learnt on our wanderings on the ridge yesterday, Edvard Munch is one of Norway’s most famous painters and did works as part of the early representations of expressionism

The MUNCH Museum is designed according to the FutureBuilt criteria of at least a 50% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions in the areas of transport, energy use and material use compared to current standards

It’s home to 26,724 of works by Munch, which consists of: almost 1,200 paintings, 7,050 drawings and sketches, 18,322 graphics, with 842 different motifs, and 14 sculptures

Norway is surrounded by the Barents Sea, the Norwegian Sea, the North Sea and Skagerrak with the total coastline towards the sea is approximately 2,650km long

If you include all the fjords and islands in the calculations, Norway has over 25,000km of coastline; this makes lots of sense  as to why the Norwegian economy and culture revolves around life by the sea, such as the oil industry, fishing, fish farming, and shipping

We’re then taken by a lighthouse which looks a bit like a church; it’s called Heggholmen Fyr and it originates from 1827 making it the oldest lighthouse in the inner Oslo Fjord

Then, Nesodden is on our left which is just one of the many places along the fjord that is home to a multitude of summer houses, though these specific ones also come with bathing houses on the waterfront; they were built at a time when it was unthinkable to be seen swimming in a bikini, and much less naked

The original bathing houses were fitted with a staircase that ran from the door of the house down to a room with barred walls, where people would sit in the shadows and splash around in the water while they talked with their neighbors through the wall without being seen

During the prohibition period in the 1920’s, when alcohol was strictly forbidden in Norway, the bathing houses at Nesodden were used extensively by smugglers; being accessible by boat but not visible from Oslo, the houses were the perfect location for the illegal sale of alcohol

The boat then takes us round past Oustøya, which has a golf course, Fornebu as well as Bygdøy, also known as museum island, before taking us back to the original point

We get off and have a look around the port area before heading inland and going to Amundsen Bryggeri & Spiseri for a couple of Norwegian pints

Time to get some grub: we pop on the 11 tram and head up to an area called Grünerløkka to a place for dinner

Vulkan road has a food court, called Mathallen Oslo, and one of the food vendors here is Helt Vilt (Completely Wild)

We’ve come here specially for the Villsinburger, or Deer burger, Tipsy Elgburger, or Moose burger – these animals are a delicacy here so we figure we might as well give them a go!

As we’ve got to get to bed extremely early today, it’s a quick turn around once we finish these back to the tram stop we got off at for here, though we also pop into 7 Eleven for a cheeky cookie to share for dessert

We change from tram to train and then get back to the Airbnb to finish some left overs in the fridge as well as have a camomile tea each before tucking ourselves into bed around 8:30pm