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| A panoramic movie of Oslo, as seen from atop the Fram Museum in Bygdøy
(Bygdoy).
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| Kon-Tiki Museum (Kon-Tiki Museet)
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| Thor Heyerdahl cross the Atlantic in this reed boat to prove it could be done.
| Another view.
| For the same reason, he sailed in this balsa-wood raft across the
Pacific from Peru to Polynesia.
| Another view.
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Another part of the museum discussed Heyerdahl's work examining caves
and statues on Easter Island.
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An adjacent special exhibit room discussed the effect the news of his
Kon-Tiki journey had on popular culture (e.g., the sudden popularity of
tiki torches).
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| Back in Oslo Proper
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One plaza's random sculpture and fountain.
Notice the outdoor
dining in the background.
| In the National Museum of Architecture, models of one building complex
at different stages of completion.
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| Grünerløkka (Grunerlokka) part of town
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| Olaf Ryes Plass, a one-square-block park. It's actually mostly open
grass, as you can kind of tell from this picture.
| Part of the row of restaurants facing the park. I ate at Fontes.
| Shrimp scampi (i.e., shrimp in a garlic-wine sauce), a spanish omelette
("tortilla", as they say in spain), and herbed-and-spiced bread. I saw
a few versions of a spanish tortilla in Barcelona so I didn't know what
to expect. This was one of the them, a sort of egg and potato
casserole, though I don't think I've ever seen it with tomato sauce.
I was pretty happy with the meal.
| I liked the look of this line of buildings.
This design style is a common one in Oslo.
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| Paulus Church. Yes, the clock is right. (Ah, late sunsets in the
summer.)
| "A river runs through it," the it being this part of Oslo and the river
being the Aker River. A nice running path follows the river.
| One of the four odd animal-wrestling statues on Markveien bridge.
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