Saturday 26 February 2011

Maihaugen museum

We are now on our way to Oslo and TV stardom!

Boys all slept really well last night after their pizza and hot chocolate. This morning the Lillehammer Kantor (Tim Collins) and a lovely English lady (who married a Norwegian farmer 30 years ago) came to make us breakfast- the usual bread and jam but also cornflakes which we have not had every day - so they have become a bit of a treat.

On the recommendation of Tim we then went to the Maihaugen museum- this is an outdoor museum of Norwegian architecture. All the lovely timber buildings had been moved piece by piece to Lillehammer in about 1904. Some were 17th century so v pretty. The excitement for the boys was finding houses without padlocked doors to explore. Some had little balconies or haylofts and trapdoors. Also lots of snow- there has been snow on the ground since October and there was a big fall 2 nights ago so v fresh and deep snow. In places boys could go nearly up to their waists in snow- however it is only about 0 degrees which is relatively mild compared to a few days ago.

Sadly we will not now be able to go to the Munch museum- our coach driver is relieved as it is in a dodgy part of Oslo apparently.

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