Our last day in Oslo and more culture - this time on Oslo's museum peninsula, Bygdoynes. Here we started in the excellent Fram museum, which is built around around the ship of the same name. This was the ship used by the heroic Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen to be the first explorer to reach the South Pole in 1912. The ship is presented in all its glory and is an excellent museum experience. Very close by is the Kon-Tiki museum featuring the raft that Thor Hyerdahl, another Norwegian hero, sailed from South America to Tahiti in 1947. It looks very frail, I wouldn't sail across Dublin Bay in it let alone 101 days in the Pacific. Also in this museum is the Ra II which Hyerdahl sailed from Morocco to Barbados in 1970 - I have vague memories of this in the news from that time. We took a ferry back to Oslo and had a light dinner in the Louise restaurant in the Aker Brygge area.
Oslo has been a fantastic experience, it's a beautiful city with lots to do. The public transport is cheap and brilliant - a great way to get around. But.... it is expensive. At dinner this evening we had a bottle of Italian red wine costing about €60 - it was the cheapest on the menu. I wonder how much of this the farmer in Italy got - probably very little.
Tomorrow, our Scandanavian adventure comes to an end as we set sail by ferry from Oslo to Kiel in Germany. We have loved it here despite it being one of the most expensive holidays we've been on. It has long been an ambition of mine to take the bike to this part of Europe, and I can certainly tick that box now.
Some photos from today...