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On my way back to Portland from Oslo, I got to see a tiny bit of Iceland from the window of my plane. As we got ready to make our descent into Keflavik Airport, I saw a plume of volcanic ash drifting in the sky below us.
When the plane landed, we walked down a ramp to the runway and I stopped for a minute to stare at the mountains in the distance. I'd love to come back to Iceland for another adventure someday.
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Vår Frelsers Gravlund, Oslo
Walking around Oslo, I stumbled into the most famous graveyard in the city.
This is the grave of the playwright Henrik Ibsen
I wondered if the design of this headstone might have been influenced by runestones
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On the way back to Oslo from Solvorn, the weather was cool and the sky was overcast. I felt right at home in the misty weather.
I was excessively excited to see quite a few buildings with sod roofs. Some of them looked very old, and others were shiny, modern green architecture style buildings that were clearly following in the same tradition.
Halfway through the trip, my bus stopped at a small town called Gol for the driver's lunch break. I got out and ran around a carnival that just happened to be going on right in the middle of the bus station's parking lot.
My favorite things were the off-brand Lord of the Rings themed prize booth and the extremely gummy-looking women airbrushed onto the Crazy Dance ride.
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Fjord Kayak trip: Marifjøra to Dagsturhytta Eikjabu
The Norwegian Tourist Association runs a network of day use and overnight cabins in natural areas all over the country.
We stopped at this cabin for lunch and I took a peek inside.
I didn't know it at the time, but I recently discovered that one of the Norwegians in my family tree was born within a couple miles of this cabin.
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Urnes Stave Church, part 2
The Urnes Stave Church was built as far back as the 12th century, and contains fragments of an even more ancient structure.
It has been said that the carvings on this church may contain images from pre-Christian Norse mythology, the dragon Níðhöggr gnawing on the roots of the sacred tree Yggdrasil.
Some historians reject this theory, suggesting that the carvings clearly represent Christian themes of good triumphing over evil: a lion beating a snake in battle.
Either way, the carvings do carry over some visual themes and styles from earlier pre-Christian art from the area. The flowing, writhing beasts and plant forms date back centuries earlier. In that sense, at least, it's a fascinating window into the transition between paganism and Christianity in Norway.
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The landscape on the ride from Oslo to Solvorn was so beautiful, I spent the entire ride with my phone against the window of the bus, taking as many pictures as I could.
Waterfalls!
The landscape was mountainous, and the hills were covered with dense pine forest. The forest and the rolling fog over the mountains reminded me of the Pacific Northwest.
At one point, the road ended and the bus needed to board a ferry to continue to Solvorn. I spent most of the ride outside on the deck, leaning into the cool wind that blew across the water.
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I ate cardamom buns all over Scandinavia. They were so good, I had to try them wherever I saw them. They were soft and fluffy, perfectly sweet, and aromatic from the cardamom. I'm going to need to learn how to make them, because now that I've had them, I'm not going to stop craving them.
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When I arrived in Oslo, I was exhausted from a seven-hour train trip but I was still determined to make the most of my time there.
After a nap at my hotel I decided to rally myself to go out, and took the subway to Vigeland Sculpture Park.
By that point, it was night time, and about as dark as it would get, but it was still light enough to easily see my way to my goal: the incredible sculpture Man Attacked by Babies.
I am proud to say that I helped Man Attacked by Babies in his ongoing fight against the baby menace.
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