Akerselva – translated it means: Aker – the name of it – elva = the river,



In the late1880’s it was a lot of industry here and the river got very polluted. Not until the recent 20 years or so – where the area went from old buildings and was turned into offices and apartments – was the river cleaned – and the whole area is now a nice place to walk – from down town Oslo and up to Kjelsås. If you want to read a bit more about it (in English) take a look at Wikipediat

Today we started walking it. We did not start at the very top, but closer to where we live. A 30 min walk. The weather was sunny and nice, but it was a bit colder than we expected (not that we noticed until we got back home inside… I’m not sure I’m even warm now.. 8 hrs later)

Here are a few of the pics we took – and btw, yes, it’s December 13th, not spring.