A woman I met on the clean, quiet, punctual train into town tipped me off that Los Tacos was the place for cheap(er) beers before 9pm. As a nation of lushes, Norway promises financial ruin \u2013 if you get change from a tenner you\u2019re doing well. So a cool \u00a33.92 for this pilsner was a serious win. What about food? I asked the latter of the two lads in the bar where to get a reasonably priced meal. \u201cMcDonald\u2019s or you go hungry,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
I asked him why Oslo was so expensive. \u201cWell, you pay what things actually cost to do properly,\u201d as if it was blindingly obvious. But what does that mean?<\/p>\n
Everyone knows about Norway\u2019s oil-made pension pot: at \u00a31.3 trillion \u2013 about the same as Australia\u2019s GDP \u2013 it\u2019s the largest sovereign wealth fund in the world. The corollary is high wages and pricey services. Combine that with strong unions, high taxes \u2013 particularly on the fun stuff \u2013 and an allergy to cheap foreign labour, and a \u00a310 Heineken begins to make sense.<\/p>\n
The new-ish Edvard Munch museum<\/a> \u2013 all wonky glass and 13 storeys high; you can\u2019t miss it \u2013 is about 50 metres away and open till 9pm, so I swung by for a post-pint mooch. Three of the five existing versions of The Scream<\/a> are on show, one at a time. The version you get \u2013 they differ a lot \u2013 depends on when you arrive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman I met on the clean, quiet, punctual train into town tipped me off that Los Tacos…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68972,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[37657,71,157,156,8313,5242,1413],"class_list":{"0":"post-68971","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-oslo","8":"tag-daily-features","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-norway","11":"tag-oslo","12":"tag-standard","13":"tag-top-story","14":"tag-travel"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116472911314968620","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}