Welcome to Asker! A place outside Oslo, Norway's capitol. Here, there live around 53 000 people. And I can easily call my home town a multicultural place with inhabitants from all over the world. I live near the centre of the town which is pretty great since I go to school in Bærum (which you can read more about on several of my schoolmates blogs) and have to use public transport everyday (have to think about the environment and let the car stay at home, you know!).In Asker you will also find Norway's crown prince and his family, living just a 10 minute walk from my
place. I can imagine you might think it sounds a bit strange that royalty can live “amongst” the people, but in my home town they can! You see, Asker is a pretty quite place to live in, with a lot of great nature and all kinds of opportunities for the community. The only thing not so great about Asker becomes clear during the weekends. There are no places to go if you're not over 20. That's because the age limit for drinking booze is 20 years. Luckily Oslo is only a 25 minute train ride away with many beer-serving places for the 18-year olds=) So as you see, Asker is kind of unique. It's not too small and not too big. And what you can't find down town, what you need is never far away!
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Hey Marianne,
That is very interesting that you mentioned all the trains and buses. We do have school buses, but no city buses or trains around here. We have a public transportation van that picks up people that can't afford their own transportation. This van is used to take them to doctors and grocery shopping.
The larger city that I mentioned in previous posts, Shreveport, does have city buses, but most everyone takes their vehicles when going to these cities.
Im sure you have a lot less traffic around your cities because of the use of buses, trains, and bicycles. Do you have interstates?
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Hi again!
Thank you for your comment;) This is really a nice way of getting to know another city! I think it's quite interesting that most of you drive your own cars to town. It's not like people don't drive to work and school here. Let me tell you, the queue on the interstate into Oslo stretches on for miles each morning, and back again in the afternoon!
Hey Marianne,
Your Town sounds like a great place visit. Have you ever met the prince and his family
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