Oslo Day 4

Being a Sunday, we were forced to keep things low key...or so we thought.  We decided to go to take one of the mini-cruises.  We forgot to account for the change in transportation pattern, so we ran the last three blocks because we didn't want to miss the departure and be forced to wait another hour and a half.

That's my post-run face.

 

The fortress.

 

City Hall.

The Opera House.

 

 

There were, needless to say, lot of ships at port.  The city recently issued a mandate to most all port-related activity away from the opera house area of town in an effort to improve the costal look and view.  I don't know where it's all going, but thus far, it is certainly no longer by the Opera House.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Don't know many places where everywhere you look you get a postcard shot.

 

We decided we had time to check out the Oslo Maritime Museum, so we did.  Guess what this is?

 Dried fish without their heads!  In coastal Norway up north, they have multi-story drying racks of these that get filled almost daily.  All of these fish are at least 1 1/2 feet long!

 

The museum itself wasn't too bad.  It had a LOT of different modern boat designs and models on display.  They explained how oil platforms were transported and set up on the ocean (yep, they use a BIG boat for that).  They explained how different materials have their own advantages and disadvantages.  Blah, blah, blah.  The COOL part was the pseudo-OMNIMAX theater they had where they gave you a video tour, history, and industry snapshot of Norway's coasts.  That made the wander in worth the trip.  It also made you want to visit the coastal towns.

 

We took the bus back to the main station and got on a subway train that eventually became a regular metro train to Frognerseteren.  This was a Rick Steve's recommended place to eat (one of the few reasonably priced food joints) and was supposed to have a spectacular view.

Sparkly clean, but not a lot of people on this leg of the trip.

 

 

How many faces do you see?

 

 

Finally there!  The food was alright...standard bland Norwegian food.  The place was PACKED!  People were eating outdoors as well as indoors.  The view was pretty cool.

 

 

 

 

On our walk back, we got to see some Olympic Oslo love.  The Olypmic ski jump among other ski events located at this part of Oslo.

 

 

We finally got back and just had to take a picture of the Oslo Tiger.  Apparently, it was put there a few years ago to commemorate the 1000th birthday of Oslo.  The tiger references Oslo's older reputation of being a tiger city, or a wild and crazy city like New York city or something like that.

 

My hand is quite tasty, it would seem.

 

That's all she wrote.  We got to be early because we had to get up at 2:30am to catch a bus in order to catch the 4am bus to the airport so that we could catch our 6am flight.  Yeah, we slept when we got home.