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 the first to explorers to successfully reach the South Pole in 1911. It is the centerpiece to the Fram museum, a large Scandinavian A-frame with circular levels that chart Amundson’s expeditions to the south and north poles. On the boat we were able to explore the living conditions of the explorers, test the unsure footing, and even witness an ice storm lash the rigging. If we weren’t convinced that the outrageous fur snowsuits were necessary, there was a door into a hall of descending temperatures that, by the time I made it to the exit, made me a believer. It also, especially after reading how the Siberian sled dogs were worked to death, made me think that Raold deserved whatever misery the deep cold brought.
The museum seems to have been greatly expanded since I was there sixty years ago. It was interesting then, but seems more immersive now.