Museums of Oslo

I took a ferry across to the island of Bygdoy which has alot of nautical museams. On the way I met a woman and her two children who were going over for a visit as well. She was originally from Poland and thought that Oslo was a good place to raise a family.

The museums were pretty cool. I went to a Viking ship museum, a folk museam where they have moved original homes from around the country to this single place and the Con-Tiki museum.

The Con-Tiki museum was very cool. I had not heard abouth Thor Heyerdahl (1914-2002) but this guy built very old fashioned boats out of straw or balsa and then sailed them across oceans. He sailed the balsa craft from Peru to Polynesia, the Tigris around the Indian Ocean, The RA1 sank while he was trying to get from Morroco to America so he built and sailed the RA2 the next year to finish the trip.

It was cool because the ships were so small and old fashioned and the idea sounded pretty crazy. If I get time I'll check out his biography.