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Peppe's Pizza or Dolly Dimples are both ok. Egon is an another "cheap" alternative. The best pizza restaurant, Villa Paradisio, is located at Grünerløkka. It is too far away from the city center. Grünerløkka is the Norwegian version of West Village in NYC.
The Opera roof is open to all free of charge.
Bus route 30 to the Viking Ship Museum (at Bygdøy) departs from Jernbanetorget, just outside Oslo Central Station, or the City Hall. Both bus stops are easy to find.
Central Oslo is quite small. You can walk from the Opera at Bjørvika to Aker Brygge in 25 min.
Then I certainly think I can rule out Holmenkollen if its more than 1 hour of travelling combined, as the stay is only for 6 hours. Would be great if DFDS could have their ferries stay a bit longer, 6 hours is very short and staying overnight in downtown Oslo is probably not affordable, besides its already booked and payed. I will visit Akershus Fortress and the Opera House for sure, is the roof open to public access all time of the year? Will probably also visit the Viking Ship Museum if its not too troublesome to get there without walking.
By the way just looked up Peppe's Pizza and the prices there looks okay, and if Jensens Bøfhus has the same prices as in Denmark that would be okay too. Quality food is not a requirement.
We spent about 74 USD for a big pizza , soda and beer. The pizza was decent, but I have pretty high pizza standards. It's also very centrally located. It can look very busy when you walk in but we were seated quickly.
My Norwegian friend told me Norwegians go to Sweden for alcohol, Swedes go to Denmark for alcohol and the Danish go to Germany for it.
No, Swedes go to Germany for alcohol nowadays, cause nowadays its not much cheaper in Denmark than in Sweden. I don't know anyone who goes to Denmark to buy beer. However they often drive through Denmark as transit on their way to Germany unless they take the Trelleborg-Sassnitz ferry.
It used to be Denmark in the old days when the Danish krone was lower than the Swedish krona, but since the Danish krone has raised everything has gotten much more expensive there. Also plus the EU Membership and Schengen Agreement that allows Swedes to go to Germany and take whatever they want with them without any hinder or customs.
There is really no reason at all to buy your beer in Denmark instead of Germany, it only takes about 2 hours more to drive to Germany where its much, much cheaper. Maybe if you live in say Helsingborg or Malmö it can be worth it to take a short trip across the border to Denmark and buy some slightly cheaper beer for the weekend, but not any bigger amounts that will last longer.
Before we joined EU in 1995, we could only go to Nordic countries without passport and without having to pass customs or border controls, through the Nordic Passport Union.
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I never buy beer in a restaurant in Oslo. I am not a millionaire.
If you are cheap on it then buy alcohol from the hillbilly farmers outside of every city in Norway, they make it themselves. Not sure how much it cost but probably around 100 usd for 20L of 96% alcohol.
Hemmbränt (moonshine) used to be very, very common and widespread in Sweden until we joined the EU and got free access to Germany with basically no limits on private imports. Moonshine is quickly dying out in the southern half of Sweden as people are driving to Germany instead, where they buy alcohol and other products that are expensive in Sweden but cheaper in Germany.
Sales in Systembolaget* stores in southern Sweden are also in heavy decline because of more people going to Germany.
* Systembolaget is government owned and the only stores in Sweden allowed to sell strong liqour. There is 100% government monopoly on strong liqour in Sweden, Norway, Finland, Iceland and the Faroe Islands, where any strong alcohol including strong beer only can be sold at government owned stores, and restaurants if they have a permit.
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