Our last day in Oslo, so we took a bus ride from downtown to Bygdøy, a peninsula on the west side of the city centre to visit the Vikingskipshuset or Viking Ship Museum!
The Viking Ship Museum houses three Viking era burial ships that were found as part of archaeological finds from Tune, Gokstad (Sandefjord), Oseberg (Tønsberg) and the Borre mound cemetery.
The three ships are absolutely massive, as you can really see from the photo of Elaine beside the prow of the largest one!
After our memorable tour of the Viking Ship Museum, we caught the bus back to the downtown and wandered about for some time, trying to capture the essence of the city.
We chose a recommended brasserie downtown as their menu includes unusual items such as the one I had: grilled reindeer with marinated cherry tomatoes, red onion, roccola, parmesan, mustard and honey dressing.
The next morning we flew home having really enjoyed our ‘work’ visit to Norway. Great memories of the cobbled streets and interesting locales in Trondheim and feeling, while in Oslo, like we’d stepped back in time to the late 1800’s to visit a major European city!
I don’t know if we’ll ever return, but we may have enough memories to last a lifetime!
Farvel, Norge!