Dronningparken

So as I said yesterday, we won’t wake up too early tomorrow…and that’s how it went!
Since it doesn’t get dark very early in Norway, we weren’t rushing to catch the sunlight so decided to rest for a couple of hours and get our batteries going!
Yesterday we had bought super market stuff for packed sandwiches, but since we weren’t going on a trip we packed our cheese, ham, bread, banana’s etc, and headed to the pier to eat our breakfast. We bought coffees and started making up our sandwiches - being super careful of the seagulls!
After that we decided we would walk into town and visit the national gallery so we could see Edvard Munch’s painted “the scream”. Everybody thinks it’s Van Gogh but nope! Norwegian painter Edvard Munch - so “the scream” according to Munch, was inspired one day when he was out walking at sunset, and he 'heard the enormous, infinite scream of nature'. The painting's agonised face is widely identified with the angst of the modern person. I think a lot of people think it’s Van Gogh cause of the similar choices in color and maybe the sadness of their paintings. They were both alive around the same period of time (only 10 years apart in age - Van Gogh 1853 Much 1863!) and experimented in their paintings with feelings, dark thoughts and ways of expression through color. Overall the museum wasn’t that good though - they had loads of replicas of Ancient Greek statues (like Nice of Samothrake of Venus that are in the Louvre - as well as parts of Parthenon’s zwoforos that’s in British museum). Also Lampros didn’t like the modern stuff, he thinks there’s nothing behind the meaning of them (I get it but I’m too much of an art lover to fully stand by it!).
After the museum the rain in Oslo got worse, so we decided to find some shopping malls to hand around. Once there we got coffees and thought we’d look into where we’ll be going on our last few days of travelling and most importantly where we will be flying back to Athens from. We spent a few hours planning and eventually got to the ends of things. Then went to eat something and slowly walked back to our Airbnb so we could have a calm night. Bought some more snacks for our breakfast just sat around for a bit. Showers, rucksacks loaded and clothes out for the morning, cause we have a plane to catch!Read more