🇳🇴 Welcome to Norway! 🇳🇴
Today is the last day of our travels around the world, so sad! (but that doesn’t mean we’ll stop travelling 😉) and the last stop was Norway.
When we were on the flight to Oslo, I was kind of dreading Norway because I thought it was going to be really cold since we’d packed jumpers and fleeces and raincoats. I was also not expecting it to be so advanced in technology. For example, at the airport you print your boarding passes, your bag tag, and check-in your bag all by yourself, no hostesses anywhere!
Anyway, when we arrived in Oslo at 1am, we went to the AirBnB and the next day, we decided to visit the ultra-modern opera. There’s lots of oak so that the acoustic can be the best possible. The seats in the concert hall are all designed to absorb as much sound as possible. Plus, the guide pointed out that all the seats had a different pattern on them! One of the walls on the ground floor is made to remind you of a glacier. There are diamond holes and there is a green light at the bottom and a white light at the top (that you can see through the holes) and it’s ever-changing. Sometimes the green light becomes more intense and then it changes and the white light is more visible.
After also admiring the costumes that were on display, we went to visit the fortress. We just walked around the walls for a bit and soaked up the sun (so it wasn’t cold in the end) and decided to continue our exploring the next day.
We woke up to rain. But we were in luck, there are plenty of museums in Oslo. The Viking museum seemed to be the best one, so we hopped on the bus and walked in the museum to see a huge, real viking boat! It was found in the 18 hundreds under a burial mound, and when it was excavated, it was all broken into different pieces and it took 21 years for the ship to be put back together, restored and moved to the museum. The people who were buried in the ship were two women, who must have been very important, looking at all the objects they were buried with.
In the evening, we rented a car to go to Lillehammer, where we spent a day at a local theme park, but you can read all about that in Raphaël’s blog (in French).
We then came back for a day to Oslo, where we visited the Kon Tiki museum. If you don’t know what the Kon Tiki is, it’s the name of the boat, 6 men sailed across the Pacific Ocean in, to try and prove that maybe the people from French Polynesia’s ancestors are actually from South America, rather than Asia. So in the museum, you can see the real boat they used, and you can learn all about their journey. If you want to know more about the Kon Tiki, you can read the book about it, by Thor Heyerdahl. I found this museum particularly interesting.
I really think that Oslo is a great cultural city and that Norway was a great way to end our travels. Thank you so much for reading about our adventures all year long and I hope that maybe we have inspired you to travel and discover our world!
Love from,
Eléonore
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