Bærums Verk is a small village that is located at Northwest of Oslo. On the Norway Oslo tourist page, it talked about Bærums Verk and indicated that it has an unique charm to it and there are many local stores selling unique handcrafted items. Thus we decided to go visit this place to see what it is like.
Getting to Bærums Verk was not as straight forward. First, we had to take the underground train, or subway to Sandvika, and then take local bus to Bærums Verk. The total commute time was about an hour.
When we got to Bærums Verk, it was around 10AM and it was very quiet. The view of the village was quite gorgeous and we saw few people enjoying their breakfast outside. However, we did not see anyone on the street visiting the stores. Many of the local stores did not seem to be open either. We were quite confused.
We even walked into a building like mall and the stores in the mall were definitely open, but we did not see any shoppers in the mall. We were essentially the only one walking around here. Another thing we noticed was that there weren't any other tourists around. We felt like we got scammed by the Norwegian travel guide and were quite disappointed.
Since it took us an hour to get here, we did explore almost every single corner of this place. There was a glass blowing shop that was quite interesting. There were also many sculptures around the town. Some sculptures have colors on the hair and eyes to make it look more alive.
After about 30 minutes, we really did not know what else to do here. It seemed that not even local people come to this place. Thus we headed back to the bus station to go back to Oslo.
To be honest, we were disappointed by Bærums Verk. We originally had high expectation here and were looking forward to see some of the locally made products.
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