thanks!

After Oslo, I’m on my way to Amsterdam for three days by my own.

Before I head back, I should say another big thank you to Lou and Rune.
When I left Rome to Siena, Lou prepared a super packed lunch for me. Having walked with my 20kg backpack for 3km to look for the hotel, I was exhausted and starved like crazy. I was so touched and ate the full meal almost with tears.

On the day I left Oslo, Rune prepared 3 salami buns with homemade all grain bread for me. Without any meal on the cheap flight, the little buns are like foie gras served in first class…

At last, this Europe trip is all about food. I learned, tried, cooked and ate so much a lot of different kind of food in France, Rome and Oslo. Thanks to all of my friends!

here’s some of the good food I ate and cooked in Oslo.

Freshly made pasta with meat sauce

shrimp on white bread

budapest cake

Oslo part II

Since I have ten days here, I better head out the warm kitchen and take a closer look of the city. My friend are so considerate that they arrange a half day tour for a lazy tourist.
After lunch at home, I went to a local swimming pool for a relaxing stretch.
Though I saw quite a number of people mingle in front of the entrance, the swimming pool is still sparsely occupied. Of course in Oslo, what they got is land, but mainly is due to the precise allocation of space. I am so impressed by the public swimming pools’ management. The main swimming pool is so spacious with clearly divided area for kids, trainer and normal swimmer. Different level of diving boards, pool for elderly and kids, gymnastic, sauna….. Thought the entrance fee cost me 75 Kr (almost HK$90) I would say it’s worth for everything you can enjoy herte.
here’s the outlook of the swimming pool,

In the other side of the road, I can visit the Munch Museum, with the famous painting “scream”. Again, I enjoyed to stroll in a museum for hours, with the detail introduction on the painter, Edvo Munch.
Sometime it’s good to move around slowly in the museum. As I don’t know other language other then English, the descriptions on those exhibits are the only thing I can recognized. I can totally focus in the
show pieces without any disturb, sometimes it’s really good to be alone.

The day after, I walked like a windup robot, visited the Folk Museum and the Viking Museum.
The Folk Museum is the biggest open-air museum in the world, the exhibits feature daily life and living condition in Norway from the 16th century to present time.

Among all of the exhibits, I like this wooden sculpture the best. They look so cartoon while they really look like Norwegian, beautiful, simple and happy.

To prove that I have been to Scandinavia, I have to visit the Viking Ships Museum. It’s actually a comparatively small museum. With the three giant Viking boat, still, worth a closer look.

‘As burial ships, carrying the dead over to “the Other World”, the ships were equipped with unique treasures such as wagons, horses and especially textiles which are seldom preserved from the Viking age’. At the bottom of the boat, they recovered two female vikings bodies date back to 850!