Taking a summer walk or a cross-country skiing trip in Nordmarka feels like a holiday. Best enjoyed on a weekday though, as the weekends are a more crowded affair.

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Oslo’s green belt, a paradise of pine and birch trees, dotted with lakes you can cross in winter. Pitch a tent, stay in a cabin, go fishing or just enjoy a day communing with nature. It doesn’t get more Norwegian than this.

Metro line 1, Frognerseteren station; Metro line 3, Sognsvann station

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An island in the Oslo fjord. The ferry is cheap, or free if you have one of the travel cards on offer, and it takes about half an hour. Some travel guides are in need of updating. There is no longer a campsite on the island so any listed phone number is obsolete. Anyone can go out on spec and pitch a tent - office parties, overnight school trips. Yet the island is big enough to get away from that if you want. Great place to chill out with a few beers or to do a bit of swimming in the summer. Hard to believe it's so close to the city

Catch the bus in the centre for Vipitengen Pier.

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Come summer, the locals hop on a ferry to the islands for a barbecue and a swim in the fjord. For the price of a tube ticket, it feels like escaping to another planet, and it’s only a five-minute boat ride away.

To reach the ferry, take the 60 bus to Vippetangen

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