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We're off to Drottingholm – a one hour boat trip outside of Stockholm. Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile

The Vasa Museum! and Roland arrives.

Changing of the guard at the Palace across from our hotel and a walk around Gamla stan.

I thought you'd all enjoy this sight from yesterday. Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile

Sunday, May 3. After breakfast, we went to the dock (beside the Nobel Peace Prize Center) and boarded a ferry for a ten minute ride across the fjord to a museum housed in an A-frame building, The Fram Museum. The literal centerpiece of the museum is a wooden, four-masted ship built around 1890 by Mr.Continue reading “Sunday in Oslo”

Marlow will have much to say about our visit to Oslo’s new opera house in the next posting. But meanwhile here are two photos of the lobby.

Walking to dinner we passed the Nobel Peace Center. Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile

Saturday, May 2, 2009, 1:00 p.m. We, (Wes, Sam and I), are three hours into a seven hour train journey to Oslo. For the past 90 minutes we have been in snow-covered, iced-over, greenish-blue-watered, rather bleak, high-mountain territory (high altitude here=4,000 feet). Most of our fellow train travelers are dressed in ski clothes and carryingContinue reading “Saturday En Route to Oslo”

Friday, May 1, 2009, 9:00 a.m. We have been on a boat for an hour proceeding north and slightly west from Bergen. I think the boat may be a catamaran. When it picks up speed the front end lifts considerably. There are about 80 passengers. We are on the upper of two levels. It hasContinue reading “Marlow’s Trip Report for Friday”

Today we take a 7 hour train trip to Oslo through the mountains of Norway. Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile