Oslo - some more photos of the town

 The port with the castle in the back

 The port with some important monument in the middle.

Close to where we stayed

King's Palace. He didn't let us in.

Oslo - the Castle and military Museum

We visited the castle twice. It's very centrally located, close to the port area.
We also visited the military museum inside.

 That! Makes sense. I guess.

Oslo - moose, whale and their colleagues

Just sayin....

 EiPam - the booking

All these are described here:

Reindeer

 Whale steak

I know what you're thinking. It's not an endangered species.  The world produces about 341 million tons of potatoes a year.
These specific families of mammals are not endangered either.

Whale meat for me remains unforgettable.

Oslo - the Fram Museum and Munch Museum

On our third day in Oslo we visited a must-see site: the Fram Museum. We took the same ship from the port as we took to get to the Folksemuseum, however, we had to take it one more stop beyond it.
Fram ("Forward") is a ship that was used in expeditions of the Arctic and Antarctic regions by the Norwegian explorers Fridtjof Nansen, Otto Sverdrup, Oscar Wisting, and Roald Amundsen between 1893 and 1912.

 Wait, that's not the Fram. It was our ship.

 That's the Fram!

 It was freezing.

 But we had good supplies.

 So we could navigate.

 And eat well.

Later in the Munch Museum, I didn't take any photos. There is no permanent exhibition there. The current exhibition was "Emma & Edvard: Love in the time of loneliness". In Flaubert’s novel Madame Bovary, Emma Bovary’s penchant for romantic dreams leads her to marital infidelity and ends in tragedy. Our visit didn't end so sad, but the audio-visual interaction between Munch’s art didn't give me new perspectives on Munch's works. It was a little weird to me.

However, we found Munch's famous Scream, (which is not exhibited in that museum) in the Cafe:

I must say I never ever gained so profound understanding of Munch's art before.

Oslo - The city

On our second day, we explored the city itself.

The Vigeland Park is the World's largest sculpture park made by a single artist. It's impressive, but also weird at the same time. I'm not sure I'd host one of these at home.

Then we visited Henrik Ibsen's home, a Fish Market restaurant, the Opera House, a Southern American restaurant called the Lucky Bird, and a street of the original old town.

Which one is which, is an exercise to the reader.