Oslo Day Two
Or the peninsula...
The plan for today was to head over to the Bygdøy peninsula where a lot of the city's tourist attractions were located.
After breakfast in the hotel (man there was some strange food on offer - caviar in a tube, some meat, pea, potato and jelly concoction and a weird looking luminescent cheese) we headed down to the harbour to get the ferry.
Our first stop was the Viking Ship museum. Inside here were three recovered Viking ships from about the 10th century. Apart from being absolutely jam packed full of tourists, it was pretty cool. Two of the ships were in excellent condition, but the third looked like it had seen better days.
From here we walked up to the Norwegian Folk Museum. In here they had moved traditional buildings from all over Norway into one spot (making it very convenient for me!!). We got to see a 12th century funky stave church and some camouflaged farm buildings. They also had an interesting exhibit where they relocated a building from central Oslo and showed the history of the residences over a couple of hundred years!
After a tea break we headed to the Kon-Tiki museum. This museum contained the ships that Thor Heyerhahls built in the 1960's to prove that ancient South Americans had the technology to built boats to sail to Polynesia. I can honestly say that you would not get me on one of those boats!
From here we went to the Fram museum. The Fram was a boat that successfully sailed the Northwest Passage and got close to both the North and South Poles.
After getting the ferry back to the city centre we headed to a bar, Eet Glass, close to our hotel. The plan was to have a couple of drinks and then head out for dinner. That pretty much failed and we spent the rest of the night drinking and eating and enjoying fantastic service from the bar staff!!
A Viking Boat
Where the Oars Go!
A bit of a fixer-upper
A square in the folk museum
Houses in the museum ground
The Stave Church
More houses in the museum ground
More houses in the museum ground
More houses in the museum ground
Cool fence
Beats wallpaper?
The Fram
Wonder what the turning circle is like?
Ferries and Ships
The beach - does not look that comfortable
Oslo at 10pm!
1 comment:
Yeah, you want to stay away from the caviar in the tube. Don't think it's supposed to be red.
Speaking of food, they are obviously heaps into their salt here - in a supermarket we were in they had a big stand where you could get your own salt (kind of like serve yourself lollies) out of about four or five flavours (no chicken salt, sorry!)
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