There are about a million indoor malls here.
In one of them, Julie finds a yarn store, but it is closed on Sunday.
When she finally gets inside, it is too small to actually browse and the
staff practically push her out to do their inventory.
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In the train station, and many other places,
there is a Narvesen store. It competes with 7-11 (which is next door),
selling hot dogs, magazines, and the one thing 7-11 doesn't have:
Everquest software.
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| Our tour of Oslo includes the Viking Ship
museum, the sculpture park, and an outdoor museum of old buildings. Here
Julie lends some sense of scale to a Viking ship that was used as a
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Ahh, the outdoor museum. I
think Scandanavia has some thing about outdoor museums. Here is my
Oslo's Hierarchy of Needs:
- Outdoor museums
- Cigarettes
- Walking with ski poles
- Salty spaghetti sauce
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The outdoor museum includes this old church
which reminds us of the temples of Thailand.
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Another outdoor museum is the sculpture park
of Vigeland. Most of the sculptures are quite touching, but this one I
had to capture because of perfect representation of the frustrated
baby-sitter.
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Many tourists that just have a few days in
Norway do a "Norway in a Nutshell" tour between Oslo and Bergen. We do
the tour without the nutshell because we already have a train pass for
all of Norway. That leaves it up to us to get our own tickets on the
ferry that takes us through the fjord and serves hot chocolate and
waffles with jam.
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The tour through New Zealand fjords was more
impressive but we did manage to see some seals as our tiny ferry took us
around.
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