This weekend we had beautiful autumn weather in Oslo, and I went for long walks in the forest on both Saturday and Sunday 🙂 On Saturday I met up with Marie who I know through my blog and her website Elusive Moose, but I had never met her in person. It was really nice to finally meet her and we spent a wonderful day walking (nearly 18 km!) and we took lots of photos.

We started at Sognsvann, and for a while it was quite cloudy.

The clouds disappeared though, making the autumn colours look even more spectacular!

We stopped for a lunch break at Skjennungstua. There are lots of these cosy cabins in the forest, serving food (cinnemon buns!) & drinks.

I loved all the combination of red, white and blue 🙂

Air Bee & Bee at Frønsvollen, and Batmans house above it. Spectacular clouds too!

Around the farm buildings there were lots of birdhouses, some were quite fancy! The lake in the other photo below is the same one we passed earlier in the day, but now with sunshine and blue sky 🙂

An open (boggy) area in the forest, and three girls enjoying the view towards Holmenkollen.

Fantastic view over Oslo from Vettakollen…

We came back to Sognsvann where we had started this morning, but we decided to explore the “hagekoloni” (allotments-deluxe, all plots have a small cabin on them) nearby. It’s truly a paradise in the city – such cute cottages, flowers and apple trees everywhere.

Creative decoration & LOTS of plums – one might have found its way into my mouth 😉

On Sunday I went hiking with a group of friends / colleagues. We took the bus to Skar, and hiked to Sognsvann via Fagervann. This hike was a lot faster than the photo walk with Marie… I could only just about keep up with the 3 Norwegian girls in the group 😛 so I only took these photos of Fagervann…

It was another beautiful day though, quite warm in the sunshine too. What a perfect weekend!