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Hi. I'm Norwegian. I'm not sure where the other guy's from, but you really don't have to tip here, and there's definitely no 10%-rule.
People do this differently though. Some people tip no matter what, others tip if they are pleased with the visit, and others tip only if the whole experience was much better then expected. Personally I tend to go for the last one. If I'm really impressed by the food, and the service is great, then I tip whatever I feel like. I usually round up towards a nice round number. (Unless it's too little. I normally tip approximately 50 kroner.) But it's really up to you.

And like the others here are saying, NFC isn't very normal yet. Use your Visa card. Be sure to remember your PIN. (Some tourists come here with cards that they don't have to use a PIN for. That doesn't work here.

Also:

http://www.visitoslo.com/en/

Edit: Also see this.

as seemereddit said, none of the real fjords but the nature still is quite nice around Oslo so rent a car and go for a drive - just try to avoid the highways, they aren't that scenic :).

This is a route I show friends who want to see the nature but don't have much time: https://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=Oslo,+Norway&daddr=59.797871,10.73508+to:dr%C3%B8bak+to:59.6924221,10.5169645+to:Slemmestad,+Norway+to:Oslo,+Norway&hl=en&ie=UTF8&sll=59.797871,10.691757&sspn=0.27219,0.508118&geocode=FY02...

Do stop at Drøbak also, its a very nice little town.

I'd recommend the restaurant Fyret at Youngstorget.

It's usually very busy, but you can get some good food. Fyret

Just got back from an Oslo-Tromsø trip. In Tromsø you can expect the roads to be pretty packed with snow. In Oslo the temp seems to fluctuate a bit more around the freezing point, so you could get wet roads, snowy roads, or icy roads on any given day.

We didn't rent a car at all for the 10 day trip, and we don't regret it. We did a lot of walking, and on our "museum days" we bought Oslo city passes to use public transit for free. It's a great deal and Google Maps has all the routes and times, so getting around was easy.

Tromsø is another story though. We walked a LOT to save money, but if you're wanting to chase the lights outside the city itself, you'll probably want a car.

As a side note, in Tromsø we had the best airbnb experience we've ever had. If you haven't booked lodging yet consider this place: https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/12140256

Not only is it a lovely place, the owners are fantastic people. We spent an evening with them and they went out of their way to help us see the northern lights, even notifying us via the airbnb app when they were visible from just outside the apartment.

yeah, updates will usually screw something up if you are running a hackintosh. I used to run one and this happened all the time. I don´t know your specific problem, but I would start by trying to boot with the USB that has Unibeast on it. Usually did the trick for me.
Also look at the forums at tonymacx86 by far the best place for information about hackintosh.

Again, it depends. You can get cod for maybe 15-16 USD/kilo, trout for 18-20 USD/kilo. Most food stores carry a good selection of seafood, but mostly frozen. If you want fresh produce, check out these guys - a seafood store in central Oslo that both sells seafood and has a restaurant.

There are a few recipe suggestions for cooking seafood here - some are traditional and some are modern.

A question I never thought I'd see on this sub. I personally bought a portable bidet called Fresh Buzz. I can't find it on amazon now, but this is exactly the same with no branding:

https://www.amazon.com/Portable-Sprayer-Personal-Hygiene-Elderly-Green/dp/B083R59JPW/ref=mp_s_a_1_7?crid=131DFYCB7DM04&keywords=fresh+buzz&qid=1660234149&sprefix=fresh+buzz%2Caps%2C180&sr=8-7

Other than that if you are thinking of a permanent solution, Clas Ohlson or Europris or similar places sell mini shower heads you can connect to your water piping system under the sink and ir comes with a mountable grip for the shower

It is an application primarily targeted at tech savy users, but if one still wants to use it, it can be installed and used by anyone with NodeJS installed on their computer. You can download NodeJS from https://nodejs.org/en/. Then, opening the terminal (terminal on mac/linux, command line on Windows) followed by writing "npm install ruter-cli -g".

You can now access the program from the terminal by simply writing:

ruter <departure location> <destination>

such as

ruter jernbanetorget majorstuen

Ah, fair enough. Then definitely check the weather reports when you get into the country, and perhaps also consider the opening hours of things you might want to see in Oslo as well.

Som du kan se på Hygglo.no er 200 kr dagen billigere enn de andre (prisene i søkeresultatet er kunstig lave av en eller annen grunn, om du trykker deg inn på noen av dem ser du ekte pris): https://www.hygglo.no/category/3914-lastesykkel

Her kan du se pristilbudet jeg har fått (men som jeg skriver tar de forbehold om at det kan bli 20 % dyrere): https://cryptpad.fr/file/#/2/file/Lg+ntuOu7TBdC4HLuBkizT9x/

Og uansett hva den endelige kostnaden blir på så vil selvsagt alle som betaler for en dag eller mer med leie få det når den er ferdig reparert.

Had the same issue. Complained to styret, the lady said and I quote " some levels of noise should be tolerated", or in other words nobody gives a damn. Went to talk to neighbours, they didn´t bother answering the door. Called the cops, but they didnt come because there were so many parties taking place in Oslo at the time.

If you have talked to your neighbours but they are low on the brain cells and nothing seems to get it through their head, I would suggest retaliation. If you are as unlucky as I was and the neighbours are upstairs, try this:

• Invest in a good sound system or at least a google home, you can find those for Nok 400
• Pick the time when their music isn´t yet on
• Put the speaker in a metal bowl (Google Home, whatever works) and put it up to the ceiling making sure it actually touches it. I put mine on the top kitchen shelf and if it doesnt reach the ceiling, put some books under it
• blast the nastiest music ( I would suggest Lil Wayne - A milli, Busta Rhymes, any high bass music would do at this point)
• Wait

Once I did this the morning after my dumbass neighbour threw a party, things magically calmed down. Not only that, a different neighbour from 2 floors down politely asked us to keep it down since he could hear everywhere and it drove him insane, which made me think that the vibration really helped the sound travel.

If all you want is to concentrate, buy a white noise generator. We got ours here and it works wonders. You don´t even pay on it as far as I remember. It generates this kind of noise that you typically hear on an airplane, and after a while you don´t notice it anymore. It really saves your nerve cells if nothing else works.

The app called Mattilbud is great. It lists all of the big grocerychains' offerings, updates every monday. Lots of kroners to save if you shop smart!

I’m American but staying in Oslo and had the same problem. So I’m building a mobile app to help me find live music when I’m in town. If you have android it’s out now, else iPhone version should be approved by the time you get to town :-)

And actually, would love to have you try it and see what you think since this is exactly the use case I’m building the app for. Let’s meet up Thursday for a beer and a show if your up for it!

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.frekvensapp.native

iPhone: Coming in a couple days (waiting for Apple to approve it)

The app? (I guess if You can't receive sms you might not have internet either?) https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/oslo-bysykkel/id1092618048?ls=1&amp;mt=8 https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=no.urbaninfrastructure.bysykkel&amp;hl=no