12 June Edvard Munch & Gustav Vigeland
A leisurely breakfast surrounded by our friends, the trees.
Interesting bridge over the railway tracks.
The Munch museum.
„Starry night“ by Edvard Munch.
„Munchying about“ by Gerhild & Kim.
A view from the top of the Munch Museum.
Tracey Emin put a huge „Mother“ just in front of the museum.
Gustav Vigeland having fun with small children.
This amazing fountain is also in the Vigeland park.
Turn your back for a minute and babies get everywhere!
Just a few of the dozens of stone carved figures in the park.
Great gates!
11 June Oslo Opera House
Two buses stop in front of the campsite to take us down the hill into Oslo for about €2 per day for pensioners.
Our first impression jumping off the bus.
The opera house is to the right of the cat sculpture.
The opera house.
You can walk up onto the roof of the opera.
Inside is very different, round and lots of wood.
Geometric, back illuminated walls and not so geometric visitors.
View from the opera café.
10 June Cross the Sweden-Norway border & go to Oslo
On the way to Oslo, we paused at the border for a pleasant walk through our first Norwegian wood.
The border between Sweden and Norway.
A farm pond at the edge of the forest complete with wooden ducks 🦆 🦆.
A fabulous pitch on our new campsite Topcamp Ekeberg – Oslo topcamp.no
In or out, that is the question? About 50 m from our pitch…
Open book.
It‘s a popular place for walks.
Wow, Niki de Saint Phalle in a Norwegian forest! With two characters.
Another two characters.
Gretel has hung the washing out in the forest to dry.
9 June Rock Carvings in Tanum
Today we visited a UNESCO World Heritage site. We parked in the Vitlycke museum car park.
All of these rock surfaces were very tempting 4000 years ago.
Take a hard stone and whack the surface of the rock to make an indentation, rub in a bit of colour and your art will last for ages.
A boat!
Two men with spears.
Another boat, fully crewed.
Kim trying to work it all out.
Three boats with musical accompaniment.
Archers.
A professional explanation.
8 June Pilane Sculpture Park
Today we drove to the Pilane Sculpture Park with „Roots“ from Ai Weiwei
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Mmmm, this tree looks delicious.
The birds just love Ai Weiwei‘s tree stumps so this young lady has to give them a wash most mornings.
The tree stumps are from rare trees which once grew in the Brazilian rain forest.
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Ai Weiwei‘s son gave them all names expressing what he could see in the roots.
This one‘s called „Fly“.
This one’s called Gerhild.
By Hans Gothlin.
„Leap of Faith“ by Maria Miesenberger.
Great spot under an oak tree for our picnic.
Tony Cragg‘s work reminds me of megamushrooms growing in the landscape.
„Anna“ by Jaume Plensa.
7 Jun Tjörn
Today we drove for 2 hours to Almöns Bad & Camping 365 SEK – €31.31 per night.
Where we had a visit from D. and J. and their four-legged friends.
6 June Haverdals Naturreservat
Today we drove north through Sweden to Vilshärads Camping (https://vilsharadscamping.se) next to the Haverdals Naturreservat.
The trees are very bent and twisted into the most unlikely shapes.
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As if some giant tried tying knots with treetrunks.
Back home along the beach.
Nature‘s beach jewels.
5 June Ferry Rostock to Trelleborg
Zum Fährterminal 1, 18147 Rostock-Überseehafen.
12:00 ferry from Rostock to Trelleborg arrives 19:00.
Almost everyone on the ferry has a camper!
Sweden! First camp site next to the coast. Trelleborgstrand Ställplats Strandridaregatan 4, 231 61 Trelleborg, Sweden – very handy for the ferry.
4 June Travel to Rostock
Looking forward to Norway, Kim was reminded of the saga of Noggin the Nog.
Listen to me and I will tell you the story of Noggin the Nog, as it was told in the days of old, or In the lands of the North, where the Black Rocks stand guard against the cold sea, in the dark night that is very long, the Men of the Northlands sit by their great log fires and they tell a tale … and those tales they tell are the stories of a kind and wise king and his people; they are the Sagas of Noggin the Nog. Welcome to Northlands, a tribute to Noggin, King of the Nogs and the People of the Northlands.
Today was unfortunately Grosse Fahradsternfahrt in Berlin, so our 2 hour drive turned into a 4 hour drive.