For our last full day in Oslo, Bob and I walked 10 miles to various sights around the city. We started at the Memorial Cemetery and then walked to the Botanical Gardens near the Museum of Natural History. We then proceeded on to the Ekeberg Sculpture Park and Royal Palace, which is covered in today’s second blog, Big Views and Big Heads.
It was a short walk to the Memorial Cemetery from our hotel, located behind St. Olav’s Church. It is the burial site for Edvard Munch and Henrik Ibsen, which was the reason for our visit. It was attractive and quiet and was a nice start to the day.
Bjorn Bjornson (1859-1942), and his wife Eileen (1884-1944)
the symbol of the God of Thunder’s power
and an image that was used in Ibsen’s plays
It was about a 45 minute walk from the cemetery to the Botanic Gardens, taking us through new parts of Oslo. The gardens were free to visit and provided another lovely area to walk around. Since I don’t know that much about flowers, I will just include some pics from our visit.
As you can see, we’ve had another gorgeous day in Oslo. We didn’t even need to start out with coats on this morning! See the next blog for the remainder of today’s adventures.
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