Oslo, Norway
We arrived to rainy, cold weather( it was freezing...the high was 40)and started our tour for the day with a bus tour of the city. Joe took video from the bus window, but I didn't take any pics until we got to the Maritime museum. We toured a replica of the Fram, a ship that went to both the North and South poles in the early 1900s. We then went on a tour of the fiord onboard a sailing vessel.
Oslo is located 60 miles up the fiord from the North Sea. It is a modern city and yet the oldest city in Norway. Most of Oslo was destroyed in a fire in 1624. The King of Denmark rebuilt the city and renamed it Christiana. In 1925, 300 years later, the name was changed back to Oslo.
We would have liked a little more time and warmer weather to visit more of the city.
We had a lovely afternoon of sunshine as we left Oslo and traveled through the fiord on our way to the North Sea.
The Opera House
The harbor
The ship Joanna
Fram
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