July 24, Oslo, N59°54' W10°45'
The morning started with a so-called "panoramic" (bus) tour of Oslo. These can be useful in being able to at least get a glimpse of points of interest, but the particular bus we were on had very high seat backs so that even I, as tall as I am, couldn't see anything that wasn't right outside my window. Leslie and others less vertically-advantaged were even worse off. Adding to the annoyance was our local guide, who called out sights in a rapid-fire fashion leading to information overload about things we could not see.
We ended up at what is officially called Frogner Park, but many call it Vigeland Park after the hundreds of human sculptures by Gustav Vigeland there from the 1920s and 1930s. A defining feature of Vigeland's sculptures is that the figures are all nude, as Vigeland believed that adding clothing would "date" them. We also visited this park in 2010, but did not see as much of it as we did this time. One thing I noted in my 2010 travelogue was that it was common to see children climbing on and around some of the statues (I have a picture of that there.) From what I read recently, that is now discouraged so as to not harm the statues.
Our local guide spent a lot of time describing various of the sculptures - at one point I decided to walk ahead so that I would get to see more before it started to rain (which it did as we were finishing.)
I show here a few examples of the sculptures - you can see more in my Oslo Flickr album.
In the evening we had a "Welcome Dinner" at a nearby restaurant.