Monday, May 21, 2007

May 19 - Norsk Folk museum & Baerum Verk

Ragnhild dropped us at the Norsk Folk Museum while she went to the National Art Gallery to scout out a new landscape painting show. At the museum, we saw numerous old style farm buildings and houses with slate and sod roofs, and an old stave church. We were fortunate to be able to spend the best part of the day here while the sun was shining.

We then went to Baerums Verks which is located about 20 minutes outside Oslo along the Lommendal River. This is the site of a historic iron foundry that dates back about 380 years has been converted into an artisans centre with glass-blowing, wood-working, quilting, iron-smithy, ceramists, doll-maker, a chocolatier and other stores. There are various places to eat including a Dutch ‘Pannecake’ restaurant … really good! We also saw a wonderful old inn that has been converted into a restaurant.

That evening, we headed off to the cinema with Anders and Ragnhild to see “Notes on a Scandal” with Judi Dench and Cate Blanchette?? There were lots of twists and turns to this interesting socially sensitive story. We finished off the evening enjoying some red wine and wonderful cheeses as we chatted our way to 2;30 A.M.

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