Olso: Compare and Contrast

As some of you might know, I do the budget travel section for the Guardian newspaper on Saturdays, which involves me being an extremely lucky swine, and spending half my time cavorting around Europe.  Each time I return I perpetrate something of a blurb frenzy for the Youngin Europe Guide.

Why bother, you ask, when it’s already been printed in your name in a big snazzy newspaper?

Two reasons.  First, when writing for a national newspaper I have to, how do I say this, behave myself.  Sure I can have a laugh, but when blurbing, one has the opportunity to (in the words of Alasdair Campbell) sex it up a little.  For example, in my latest article on Oslo I talked about the Astrup Fearnly gallery (pictured), but chose not to mention the big blowjob print in one of the back rooms.  But in the blurb, I did.  In the article I mentioned that in the Nasjonalgalleriet I saw a version of The Scream for free, but didn’t mention the fun you can have doing silly poses next to it.

Second, I can write about things that didn’t even make it into the article.  This isn’t because they were shit, it’s simply because there is a word limit, and bases to cover.  So on here I can tell y’all about Blitz, where you can dine on the cheap with anarchists, and Mono, a cool little bar that throws free gigs every Saturday.

So there it is; a little Youngin Europe value added service. And perhaps a little compare and contrast fun between stuff written for work, and stuff written for play.

Related Tags: youngin europe, guardian, olso, america, art, astrup fearnly, blitz, mono, edvard munch, the scream, journalism, travel writing, budget, anarchists

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