My OperaAbout getting lost in all that green.
Sunday, June 20, 2010 12:18:39 AM
There is something I have been doing as frequent as (if not more than) eating is getting lost. I tend to think of it as born road-blindness, inability to read the map, or just highly disoriented personality. I feel helpless at the airport, even with all the signs and a speaker. Taxi is a best vehicle ever invented, which fulfills my confidence outside the "know-this-place zone", and if backpacking - then only when accompanying friends with maps, who know where they are going, and where the mobile signal is strong enough to send my cry for help.
And seems to me, that is what I have spent most of my free time doing in Oslo. Fair enough to say that it happens everytime I walk out of apartment door for a stroll in the city. But funny thing is - I like getting lost here!
[/IMG][/font]There is always an excitement in the air when it comes to exploration of a new place. Especially the place wrapped with green cover. About a week ago I was craving for a place where I could mindlessly be myself. It was quite a hard day, and it was only evening. I decided to take the bus and let it bring me somewhere ... quite. 30 minutes, and then it stopped at the place, that up till now still dazzles me. It was a high hill covered with grass and lined up with trees all around, like a protective border. Surprisingly, to a place beautiful and large like that, there were just few people enjoying the sun. A snake shape river was located just 20 minutes of walk away, flowing into most famous park in the city. The bridges (the were several) spanning the river remind me of those I used to cross in mountainous part in Sapa, Northern Vietnam. On the way back, many interesting things felt into my sigh. For instance, a tree with leaves so strange - it reminded me of Alice in Wonderland. The leaves looked like they have been painted - but when I checked, they turned out to be very real. Not only that one, but most of the trees here have held my breath. Maybe because it's been long since the last time I have been in Europe, or maybe because I don't have much green back home.
From that day, I try to come back as much as possible, with a book in my hand and a towel across my shoulder. Besides, I have found many other marvelous spots around. Here is the best that me and my lousy phone camera can capture at the other places, not the one mentioned above.
Hope someday soon I will step into Norwegian Woods. But without getting lost please
Van.
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And seems to me, that is what I have spent most of my free time doing in Oslo. Fair enough to say that it happens everytime I walk out of apartment door for a stroll in the city. But funny thing is - I like getting lost here!
[/IMG][/font]There is always an excitement in the air when it comes to exploration of a new place. Especially the place wrapped with green cover. About a week ago I was craving for a place where I could mindlessly be myself. It was quite a hard day, and it was only evening. I decided to take the bus and let it bring me somewhere ... quite. 30 minutes, and then it stopped at the place, that up till now still dazzles me. It was a high hill covered with grass and lined up with trees all around, like a protective border. Surprisingly, to a place beautiful and large like that, there were just few people enjoying the sun. A snake shape river was located just 20 minutes of walk away, flowing into most famous park in the city. The bridges (the were several) spanning the river remind me of those I used to cross in mountainous part in Sapa, Northern Vietnam. On the way back, many interesting things felt into my sigh. For instance, a tree with leaves so strange - it reminded me of Alice in Wonderland. The leaves looked like they have been painted - but when I checked, they turned out to be very real. Not only that one, but most of the trees here have held my breath. Maybe because it's been long since the last time I have been in Europe, or maybe because I don't have much green back home. From that day, I try to come back as much as possible, with a book in my hand and a towel across my shoulder. Besides, I have found many other marvelous spots around. Here is the best that me and my lousy phone camera can capture at the other places, not the one mentioned above.
Hope someday soon I will step into Norwegian Woods. But without getting lost please
Van.
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