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stave church at Folkemuseet
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crab tree in the Frogner area
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the royal family waving
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Rus buses parked out front of Vigelandsparken
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Kolsåstoppen
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gate made from skis
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the ski jump at Lillehammer
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from the 1994 Olympics
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stabbur at Teigen Gard where we stayed two nights
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Pasque flower - pulsatilla
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Larry built this mini-snowman
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some very old inscriptions, hard to believe they could be there so long
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Smiugjelsøygarden
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“base camp” lodge on Galdhøpiggen
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Galdhøpiggen, the highest mountain in Norway
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Teigen Gard
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Stave church at Lom
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The founder of the local Sparebank
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Claims to be the best bakery in Norway
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Bøvra in Lom
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somewhere between Lom and Geiranger
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on the way down to Geiranger
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Geiranger
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Hole Hytteutleie, we stayed here two nights
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Peter the Snowplow, retired since 1968 if memory serves
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starting on the ferry to Hellesylt
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Seven Sisters waterfalls
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view from Hellesylt harbor
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an abandoned farm
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our cabin at Geiranger
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this waterfall was quite near our cabin
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old Hole farm stead, partway up the hill
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they say somebody painted this on the side of the barn one night, artistic grafitti I guess but not related to the Hole family
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pointing to where the avalanche came from, which destroyed this farm in 1907, prompting a couple of others to abandon their farms too
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another abandoned farm, higher up the hill, which it turned out was not in so much danger from avalanches after all
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somebody made this watercolor painting in the guest book
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Paige car which was in use carrying tourists around Geiranger a long time ago
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the Mannheller-Fodnes ferry
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Larry says these are Scottish cows, but I heard there is a Scot who started a brewery in Flåm; I wonder if they are his
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view over Flåm
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“Route book for the crofter railroad between Flåm and Myrdal. Valid up to and including doomsday.”
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Made in Oslo at Thune. During the war. Hmm…
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A coworker found one of these bayonet light bulbs in use in the storage room at his apartment.
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on the “road” from Flåm (most of the way) to Myrdal
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another scary one to drive over
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and then we walked the rest of the way up to Vatnahalsen
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back down again
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relaxing on Langøyene
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