Post by Ella. Great views. Great location, mostly. Self check in. No keys required. The front door of the apartment building is opened with an app called UnLoc. Our host, Paul, sent us the digital key. When you are at the door, open the app, it finds the right digital key and then you tap…
Day: May 14, 2023
Polar Exploration
Post by Grubb. After dislodging ourselves from a packed bus (Sunday in Oslo with gorgeous weather, if you’re not out and about, you’re dead), Ella and I paid a visit to the Fram Museum on the Bygdøy Peninsula. The Fram is the strongest wooden boat ever built. It hauled Raold Amundsen and his crew when they were…
Sunday in the park with struggling statues
All the apps agreed: the weather in Oslo was going to be resplendent today. So we walked to Frogner Park, the biggest tourist draw in all of Norway due to the 212 Gustav Vigeland sculptures that stand as towering monuments throughout the 110 acres of lake, lawn, and oak-lined pathways. Working with granite and bronze, Vigeland liked…
Walking the docks in Oslo
Post by Grubb. We arrived late in the afternoon by train. The weather was sunny, in the high sixties, but so it was in Gothenburg when we left. We had to do the dock walk to give a sense of where we were. The first clue was the opera house. Then there was the outdoor dining catty corner…