Maihaugen

I spent most of the afternoon up at this delightful collection of Norwegian houses. They seem to come from all over the country not just from the local region and represent many centuries of the way Norwegians have lived their lives. The modern collection represents housing from the 1930s onwards and includes housing from a broad spectrum of social classes.

There are nice touches throughout this open area museum. This included the pathway up to the summer farm houses being a rough and rocky track covered in tree roots. This is much as I expect it might have been to get to those farm houses in the hills wherever they were originally.

On my return to the hotel, I took a slightly different route than I thought I was taking and wandered past an interesting decoration to the tunnel that led to the bus station. It was one of those interesting things one might otherwise never have seen if I had actually followed the route I had planned.Les mer