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| Akershus Fortress & Castle
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| A model of Akershus Fortress & Castle. The tour took me through the buildings in the upper-left.
| The castle's inner courtyard.
| The tower from a different perspective.
| From atop the walls, a panorama of part of Oslo's waterfront, including
all of Aker Brygge (middle half of the picture).
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| A panoramic movie that includes the last panorama as well much of the
water itself.
| Look how thick the wall are.
| Christian IV Hall, now used for ceremonial receptions.
| The fireplace in the Romerike Hall.
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| Read the penultimate paragraph.
| Stained glass in Olav V Hall.
| Tax collectors have always used scare tactics.
| The tower from a different perspective.
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| Train from Oslo to Flåm (Flam)
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| A video of one of the many lakes we passed on our way out of Oslo.
| | The pine trees are sometimes skinny, almost malnourished or skeletal.
(Pause the video to see this more clearly.)
| This video gets an excellent for colorful mixture of greens in
the patchwork of farmland.
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| A video with a brief glimpse of water.
| Craggy mountains.
| A video some houses along the tracks and the mountains looming above
them.
| A beautiful scene: mountains, a lake, farms, and the sun reflecting off
the water. Has audio. Doesn't the sound seem appropriate? I recorded
the video looking out the picture windows in the children's room in one
car. The music comes from the splash screen on whatever DVD was in the
player. Excellent.
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| Another shot from the children's room.
Artificially brightened.
(I needed to take a very short exposure because the train was moving
quickly.)
| Sorry about the dirty window. :(
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A dam.
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| Ah, the countryside; it feels like it ought to be painted.
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| Excellent, for something about how the water meets the smooth
horizon meets the sky.
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| At higher altitudes the trees disappeared.
| Snow appeared even higher in the mountains.
| Near the highest point, the fields were less lush.
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| and sometimes rocky.
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| Going down now, we navigated around valleys.
| Trees reappeared.
| This is Norway.
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| A panoramic movie showing the waterfall our train stopped by on the way
down to Flam. It also shows how our train stopped by this platform:
between two tunnels.
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Another shot of the waterfall.
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