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Article: Tiffs and Scandals Chill Oslo's Cozy Winter
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- December 27, 1987
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Despite the frigid temperature and limited daylight, this capital
city usually seems much cheerier in winter than in summer. Compared
to its sister Scandinavian capitals-austerely elegant Stockholm and
busy, funky Copenhagen-Oslo is a homey kind of place that is made for
warm fires and twinkling lights.
Its stolid, square buildings look somehow more attractive
surrounded by leafless trees and the soft snow of early winter. The
sidewalk cafes on the Eidsvolls Place, Oslo's central downtown green
spot along Karl Johans Street, are glassed in for the season, and a
welcoming glow shines out through their steamy windows.
With fewer than a half-million residents, Oslo rarely bustles.
But the ...