The next few days saw us go in every direction of the compass.

First foray was just west of the CBD to Vigelandsparken, Oslo's largest park, with a marvellous collection of sculptures by Gustav Vigeland. 212 sculptures depicting humanity in all its forms have been placed along the central axis of the park. Infants, children, and adult of all ages are represented in bronze and stone. I was surprised at how absolutely smooth the stone statues are. The green of the park and the sculptures make a lovely sight (I have overdone the representative images as I could not choose which to put up). 
 
 

The park was busy with lots of school groups - it is almost the end of the school year. Also many groups of the under-5s out in the sun. Watching them I was again surprised at how agile some of the tiny ones are. They were climbing over the sculptures and seemed to have no fear. One very small boy went from statue to statue and along a wall between. The wall had a top row of triangle shaped bricks. He walked along this with ease, and turned just as easily. The other point of course is that no-one stopped the children or even warned them of dangers. Must be the trick, but not what we are used to.

Next was a trip to north of the city to Holmenkollen, a ski- jump that has been here for many years. It was last remodelled in 2011 and is regarded as a very important centre for Nordic ski-ing. We had never seen one up close before and were amazed at just how high it is.Terrifying.

   

 
To the south we went to the Bygdoy area just south-west of the CBD, an area with a number of museums. The Kon-Tiki Museum was our goal here, as I studied the book in high school, although I can't remember being over-enthused at the time. But I but was interested to see the actual raft that Thor Heyerdahl and 5 others used to travel from South America to the Polynesian Islands. It is larger than I had imagined, though there is no way I would set sail on it.

Last, but not least, and just to the east, was the fabulous Munch Museet. The current exhibition of 'Munch+Gogh' was great. Curated to show the similarities in the life and works of both Edvard Munch and Vincent van Gogh, there were many well known art works. Lots of security at this museum, so it showed the value of the contents. It was a fitting end to our Oslo stay.