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Oslo: Random Pictures

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Saunas and swimmers—apparently this is a popular year-round thing.
Rent-a-sauna boat
Iconic Opera House
Opera House
Opera House and Munch
She Lies, floating sculpture
Modern architecture
Suspended horses–Oslo train station. “The installation uses the horse as a historical symbol of labor, transport, and economic productivity to comment on modern society, human transit, and economic systems where people and movement intersect.” Um, okay 🫤
A cast iron manhole cover featuring Oslo’s Patron Saint Hallvard, an innocent pregnant woman at his feet, the three arrows used to kill them, and the millstone used to sink his body into Drammensfjord. That’s the shortest version of the story I can offer!
Manhole cover with student art:
“If it ends up on the ground, it ends up in the ocean.”
“Hey, don’t throw trash in the ocean. I can die from it!”
What about me then? I can die from that too!”
Holmenkollbakken (ski jump) off in a distance
Dykkar, Oslo Harbour
Max Manus,
leading WWII Norwegian resistance fighter and master saboteur 🥇
Dykakrer, suspended over the nearby Akerselva River
Another ship for me–this time to Copenhagen.

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