Grefsenkollen utkikkspunkt
Hilltop viewpoint beside a hand-hewn 1920s log restaurant, overlooking the city and fjord.
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This audio guide to the Grefsenkollen viewpoint in Oslo starts with the axe-hewn logs of the lodge on the summit and asks why a brewery went to the trouble of building it in the nineteen-twenties, before any road reached the top. It follows the horses that hauled the timber, the Sunday walkers, and the jazz dances that filled the hill. Best heard standing by the log building with the city and fjord spread out in front of you.
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