After a slow start for breakfast we headed out to Museum isle today by Bus to visit the Folkmuseem where they have picked up and moved old houses and have several exhibits. 

Walking to the bus stop it was interesting to see the posts against cruise ships – they are 16 story high monstrosities which take up a lot of room on the harbor. I actually think from what I’ve seen they are better behaved in Norway that they are in the Caribbean. 

At the museum, walking through one exhibit made me realize again how large as people we are vs the 16/17th Century people. 

There was a old farm onsite with working animals etc. which was interesting. Finding out the buildings were raised to stop rodents was also fascinating. One of the reasons that I wanted to go here was for the Stave church “A stave church is a medieval wooden Christian church building once common in north-western Europe. The name derives from the building’s structure of post and lintel construction, a type of timber framing where the load-bearing ore-pine posts are called stafr in Old Norse”

Leaving the museum post a latte and croissant (Beware the Queen Crow)

we walked down to the Bygdoy ferry for a ride back to city hall, then up the hill for a meal at the den of Pigs.

Renee asked what the starter was on the fixed price menu I could tell she didn’t understand the waiter – I spoke up ‘Minke Whale”. Renee stopped and her eyes went wild. The waiter responding to Renee’s expression “its just a small piece”… I don’t think that was selling it. She went with the pork knuckle instead. After dinner I tried a traditional Aquavit – as Scandinavian distilled spirit. 

Then back to the hotel and to the absence of bags – I called united even though SAS was the final carrier and apparently they made it to Heathrow and then to Oslo tonight but we’ll see.  Tomorrow we’re either buying more clothes and bags or our stuff arrives and we’ll be visiting the Nobel Peace Museum and History Museum.