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I saw so much today that it’s difficult to know what to make my blip.  

Not the best start however as after a leisurely breakfast we walked down to the Ibsen museum which has the most random opening hours  to find it was indeed shut.  Also shut were the Stave churches in the countryside that we’d hoped to go and visit. Apparently end of September is very definitely the end of the season.  So we caught the bus out to the Fram museum where the ship that carried Amundsen to the South Pole after several Arctic expeditions is housed and can be visited.  I thought I’d be bored as I’ve probably crawled over one too many ships in my time but it was a terrific museum, lively and interactive.  We were on the point of leaving when another ship was discovered in a second room, Marty was excited to see it but V and I grabbed a bite to eat and moved to the open air museum nearby.  We at least saw a Stave church there, but not one that was painted.  The park was full of fascinating old and not so old buildings all imported there but my photos are a bit boring to blip so I chose this lovely Rowan tree in full berry.  

We went for dinner to Lorry’s, an eccentric old restaurant with a fairly grumpy elderly waiter where we had rather good hearty food and marvelled at the mountains of bric a brac art that adorned the walls. Also stuffed animals, one, the literature tells isn’t really but all the others were.  We guessed the giraffe but were apparently wrong.