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commuting from oslo airport to the city centre
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kitchen in the 1st apartment we stayed in scandinavia (oslo old city)
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getting to know oslo
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i spent some time exploring gustav vigeland's sculptures in the city (there's a park dedicated to them)
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oslo (thor olsens gate)
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charm
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hegdehaugsveien
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there's a reason for such inclinate roofs in northern old tall buildings: snow doesn't accumulate (important structurally)
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classy
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northern summer light (oslo)
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vigeland park
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storefront
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early 20th century
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lots of electric cars in oslo (despite -or because of- norway being oil country)
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museum
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botanisk hage, oslo
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oslo opera house (inés covering from the sun)
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on our way to sognefjord
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some drawings of sognefjord
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we were going to the deepest town in lustrafjord (the interior extreme of sognefjord, the longest in norway and 2nd in the world)
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crisp
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sod roofs spotted from the road
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a-frame roof
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in lærdal (south of the interior of the sognefjord) there are restored country houses with sod roofs
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turf roofs (also, sod roofs or torvtak) in lærdal, interior of norway
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kirsten dirksen in lærdal
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stave churches (common in north-west europe in the middle ages) have been preserved in norway; stavkirke of borgund, sognefjord area)
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borgund stavkirke (stave church built between 1180 and 1250 AD)
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norse style
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vertical roofing with wooden shingles prevented snow to settle and add weight to the structure