Happy American Independence Day! Well, all good things must end. This will be the last post from Europe. From Oslo we fly via Reykjavik to JFK and Montclair, NJ where we establish a beachhead in North America. We didn’t have much time in Oslo, but we were able to walk up Karl Johan Gate to […]
Norway
Vigeland Museet og Parken
We were recommended to check out Vigeland Park in Oslo. So we did. It is an impressive place, filled with tourists, primarily, it seemed, from Asia. Little did we know, as we walked through the place, that Vigeland himself was something of a Nazi sympathiser and that his works are sometimes considered to “reek of […]
Going Up the Country
We took a daytrip up to visit Ove’s farm, about an hour north of Kristiansand. On the way up we stopped at the duvet outlet to pick up some dual duvets. We have become enamored with the two duvet for one bed system, and wanted to bring some home as a final souvenir. Ove’s farm is […]
Kristiansand and Flekkerøy
One of the joys of travel is meeting people on the road that you otherwise would not normally meet. Ove and Bodil fall into this category. We were seated with them at a table for lunch one day, and a friendship bloomed. We, and others, had dinner together after debarking in Barcelona. Now we were […]