Today we took a long bus ride, heading north from Oslo to the semi-remote Elvesaeter Hotel. The route took us through wide open fields and into deep glacially carved valleys before ending at this semi-remote hotel.
We started the day with a fire alarm (luckily false). Vera and I had already made our way to breakfast, so did not have to climb down the nine flights of stairs from our room. Some were not so lucky.
We stopped for lunch and a short sight seeing excursion around Lillehammer, home to the 1994 Winter Olympics. Pictured above is a stave church at the nearby Maihaugen Open-Air Museum. It is more like a park, with old buildings and folk culture demonstrations. Lillehammer itself is a small ski town now, with a nice pedestrian shopping area where we had lunch, bought a few souvenirs, and had a nice rest before continuing on our journey.
Vera wanted all you quilters out there to see this old method of ironing linens...this was part of the folk museum.
Farther up the road we got to see a moose grazing in the river bottom below our road before arriving in Lom to see another of these medieval stave churches. They are another example of the wood art preserved from the 1100's. The above picture is from the interior of that church. If you are curious, look up "stave", which helps explain why this church survived all of these years.
The above pictures were taken at the Elvesaeter Hotel, with its museum quality antiques and paintings.
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