Started in Copenhagen where I wandered around the city looking at many statues, watching the changing of the guard, visiting the Hans Christian Anderson museum (I want to go home and read his stories now, relive that childhood), and then headed out to an open air museum and to visit some Viking ships which had been underwater for 600 odd years, then raised and restored as much as they could. I found these particularly ineresting. I was devistated to lose my lovley weather from Turkey though, and was back in the rain and cold, altough it did fine up for my last half day here.
I then caught the train to Oslo, where I had a day and a half to explore. Again I visited some Viking ships, this time they had been in burials, and so had many interesting artifacts with them, and were also a lot better preserved, complete with some amazing carvings, particularly on the carts which were found on them. I also visited a Polar Museum, where you could have a wander round a polar ship from the late 1800's early 1900's, very interesting. It was then out to a sculpture park, and many many nude sculptures, it was a lovely park however, and some very nice sculptures as well.
From there it was another long train-bus-train trip to Stockholm. Again I visited a war ship which had sunk in the 1600's on her maiden vouage, it made it an impressive 20 minutes, and 1.3 odd kilometers into it before it sunk in the Stockholm harbour. Sadly, the water was so shallow, it didnt even go completely under, but the top of the masts were still sticking out of the water. However it sat there for the next 333 years until it was raised and restored. They have done the most amazing job of it, and have even managed to work out what colours the 500 or so carvings were painted-they were all so bright!!!
I am finding it hard to get used to the lack of darkness here, gets dark about 10.30pm and light about 3.30-4.00am-and a lack of curtains on the windows makes getting much sleep very difficult!! 3 hours on a good night.
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