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Rode our bicycles completely around the island of Djurgården today. Got lost and ended up on the mainland, so ended up riding about 10 kilometers total. Beautiful day, sunny and about 70 degrees. Nice dinner and an early night.

Went to the Museum of Modern Art, and had a fantastic lunch. The view from the museum balcony is stunning. Alternating rain and sun gave the sky a dramatic flavor. Rode a water bus, sort of like a land bus, going from stop to stop. Evening was spent in a tiny jazz club called the Glen Miller Cafe

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walked around and rode bicycles around a lot today. The National Museum of Fine Art is closed for renovation, but has several venues for displaying part of their collections. We went to see one called 100 paintings. Walked around the Royal Palace and saw the changing of the guards (all female soldiers, with machine guns). The afternoon rain produced a spectacular rainbow, which we saw across the canal front eh royal palace.

Arrived in Stockholm, had just enough time to explore a little. Lovely dinner and home to the apartment

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Spent most of the day aboard a tiny ship on a 4 hour tour. The ship went up the Osterfjord, which passes Bergen on the way to the North Sea. A beautiful sunny warm day in Western Norway.

Most of the day was spent on a train from Oslo to Bergan. The scenery was quite spectacular, hard to believe it was the 1st day of summer up in the mountains

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Visited the Oslo City Hall, plus the Norway’s Resistance Museum. Later went to the Astrup Fearnley Museum.. Dinner and then retired fairly early.

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Both feeling a bit under the weather today (Bjørklund’s revenge?), but rebounded well and visited the Oslo Domkirke. There was a massive free concert at the harbor near City Hall that we attended. Must have been 50,000 people there. Very exciting. Pop music, video is of a Reggae bad. Norwegian Reggae, who knew. Afterwards we ducked into a cafe to watch the crowd surge around us.

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Arrived by boat, coming up the Oslo fjord in the morning. Quite spectacular. Spent part of the day ( as usual) getting oriented and learning the transport systems. Visited Nobel Peace Center which is quite impressive. Took a harbor tour on a boat that was rigged as a sailboat, passed the hugely impressive Oslo opera. Light dinner and meandering until 11PM, still daylight.

Ok, so I’ve never been to sea on a really big boat before, so I got a little silly and ended up staying up too late. The sun didn’t set until almost midnight, and sun rise was before 4AM. A good time was had by all, but boy am I tired.

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