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Norway 2016 Oslo

We had had two really great experiences on a Mountain Travel Sobek-led trip. First, the Alsek River in 2014 and then Hikers Patagonia in 2015. So when we saw that they were going to do their first "Best of Norway's Outdoors" in 2016, we jumped at the chance. It turned out to be a great decision.
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    I could say that you "Gotta start somewhere" but in fact, we have already flown 900 miles east of Bozeman and are now waiting in Minneapolis to board our flight to Amsterdam.

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    Roger CAN'T be hungry after eating and drinking in the KLM lounge in Amsterdam, but hey, never turn down an opportunity to LOOK at food!

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    Looking a bit haggard after being enroute for more than 24 hours, it is time to catch the express train into Oslo.

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    Wow, Susie looks perky and happy that a) she has a seat and b) that this is the last leg of transport, other than feet, for the day.

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    So we found our way out of the National Theater Station, and are now trying to figure out which way to go, since it LOOKS like we are out on the same street as our hotel is on.

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    Our hotel.

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    An interesting tree root base in the hotel lobby.

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    Our room, very small but nice.

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    Since the hotel did not have a restaurant (except for breakfast), and we were pretty fried, we walked down to the waterfront where there are tons of restaurants, but also tons of people. Fortunately, we found a place that we could actually sit down when we walked in.

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    Interesting mural on a nearby building.

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    An apartment build in the shape of the prow of a ship.

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    We walked back to our hotel and saw this. Looks like a really bad headache.

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    The Oslo Pass provides free transit on buses, subways, and the ferries going over to Bygdoy (an island) where there are lots of museums. The view from the ferry as we pull away. The building to the right of center that looks like an "H" is City Hall.

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    It was only a half mile or so walk from the passenger ferry dock to the Norsk Folk Museum. This is a huge outdoor living museum with building that have been moved here from other places, and can be as old as several hundred years.

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    There are lots of "re-enactors" around. Note the sod roofs.

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    Detail

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    An interesting door.

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    Just fun to take lots and lots of photos and see what you get.

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    The man in the photo was a semi-professional photographer from Doylestown, PA, with whom we walked around for a couple of hours. The lady is making bread.

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    Many of the fences that we saw, inside the museum, and in many places in Norway, had these angular cross pieces. Apparently much more efficient and study.

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    This duck posed for lots of photos.

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    And interesting pass-through and sod roof.

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    Lots of neat angles on this church roof.

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    Our photographer friend wanted to take our photo, and this was reasonably good. The stave church is in the background.

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