Discover escorts in Oslo

The largest pool of money on earth is run from a plain office block on Bankplassen. The oil fund owns a stake in most listed companies in the world, and its managers walk to lunch past the same cafés as everyone else. That is the register for Oslo: enormous wealth treated as something not to be mentioned, and high-class companions are expected to read that code as fluently as the bankers do.

Tjuvholmen is the most expensive address in Norway, an artificial islet of galleries and canals at the western end of the harbour with the Astrup Fearnley Museum and The Thief hotel at its centre. The waterfront running east from there to the Opera House was a container port twenty years ago; nearly all of the city's evening trade has since moved down to that strip, and the palace hotels of the old centre, the Continental and the Grand, serve the institutional visitor who has business at the Storting or the fund.

In summer the calendar moves onto the water. Ferries reach Hovedøya from Aker Brygge in ten minutes, and the villas of Frogner and Holmenkollen empty toward the fjord on Friday afternoons. Escorts in Oslo follow the same drift, and are as active in Bærum, the wealthiest municipality in the country, as inside the city itself.