So to continue my new tradition of listening to music from the country I visited to prepare to write about it I spent some time with a-ha. Basically I watched the video for Take On Me on youtube. And may I just say, that is a most excellent video! You should watch it immediately after you finish reading this blog.
Anyway, we went to Norway.
Oslo!
I really liked Oslo! It just seemed to be fun and kind of laid back. There were lots of street performers and art and people out and about enjoying their city.
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| We stayed in this Pension in a great neighborhood. Really close to the Royal Palace. |
We started out at City Hall. They hold the Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony there & it is a really interesting building with a lot of great art.
We continued our walking tour at the harbor.
Down Karl Johansgate (pedestrian street). Where we kept seeing youngsters dressed up 50's style. Not sure why but I liked it!
Passed through a flower market.
Tried to visit the Oslo Cathedral, but it was closed every time we went by, so we contented ourselves by visiting the Bazaar behind the cathedral.
Took in the Opera House. So gorgeous.
There is Jack and Truman's hand at the very top!
Then we walked up to the fortress to explore...
and enjoy the veiw!
We took the tram from there out to Frogner Park
It is an amazing park filled with the sculpture of Gustav Vigeland. It was so cool!
Here is Truman with his favorite sculpture, a man being attacked by babies.
And Jack with the famous "Angry Baby" statue.
At this point it was getting seriously dark and not to be too wimpy but we decided to call it a day.
The next day we got up early to catch a ferry.
It was a gorgeous morning!
We took the ferry out to visit the Viking Museum
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| Loving it! Feeling their Viking Roots! |
and the Norsk Folk Museum. The folk museum is a large park with preserved buildings and cultural exhibits (You could sign up to pick potatoes the day we were there. Yikes! I have done that enough in my life and I didn't sign up for the privilege!) as well as some excellent museums.
We took the ferry back over to downtown, it was another beautiful trip!
Then we toured The National Gallery.
Mostly so Trum could see The Scream in person.
Then we kind of wandered around and stopped in at this flea market. Full of fun junk!
The next day we headed out to see more of Norway.
The countryside,
the fjordes,
Stave Churches,
rivers & towns!
We had booked a night in a traditional sod roofed cabin and we just couldn't find the place. Finally we called and we were told we would be met by a guy who would take us to the cabin. We found him and started following him up the mountain. We kept going up and up and I started to get a little creeped, I told Jack the guy was probably leading us to his murdering spot. But instead he led us to an awesome cabin. We want one for our very own some day (without the the creeped out, murdering spot bit before hand)!
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| Our cabin, nestled in amongst the rocks and trees of Norway! |
The next day we continued on our road trip through such beautiful country.
We went up in the Jotunheimen Mountains and it was COLD!
We stopped to hike to the Nigardsbreen arm of the large Jostedalsbreen glacier. The hike was long, but beautiful and totally worth it. The glacier was amazing.
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| The parking lot were we started the hike. |
The next day we headed to Bergen. It is a beautiful town with a great historic harbor.
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| Burgers in the rain! |
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| Old German section with restored wooden buildings and narrow walkways. |
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| Perhaps the most charming McDonald's of all time. |
From Bergen we left Norway via an overnight ferry to...Denmark!
Random Stuff from around Norway:
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| Guy with homemade cotton candy machine, selling enormous balls of candy floss. |
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| Not to be a creep always taking pictures of other people's houses, but I had to, this is an awesome Norwegian house! |
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| Stuffed Reindeer at an exhibit about the Sami People. |
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