A Baltic Cruise - Part Six - Arhus, Denmark and Oslo

One Sunday we returned to Denmark, as our boat anchored in Arhus, an attractive city university. Among the 300,000 inhabitants are 40,000 students. There was a lot of high schools on the pier to welcome you to the port in Aarhus Havn. You could say that back in Denmark, the number of bicycles on the tests. Judgments of the bicycle, while others seem so numerous, so far as an important part of the culture are used, as in Denmark.

We visited the old town by Viking River Cruises, Den Gamle buildings, which moved into a collection of old wood, all of Denmark and was re-erected here. Is part of the European tradition of open-air museums. The village and was rebuilt in the old days, with workshops, shops, pubs, bakeries and the people dressed in old tasks. Children are invited to attend. Teams of horses and carriages transport visitors through the cobbled streets. Sturbridge Village and Plymouth Plantation come to mind, as well, Williamsburg, Virginia, visit the streets.

Later we went to Arhus beautiful luxury homes on a road from the beach and saw the summer residence of the queen. The true role, as in all Scandinavian countries, is now purely ceremonial.

The town has one of Tivoli, on the winding roads of the beautiful forest and a general appearance of order and prosperity. A man walked into a bike with a bag of low pass an English pub in the nickname of Dr. Watson.

We stopped at the new house music, influenced a modern building and an art museum like the Guggenheim. Through a window we saw a great depiction of a child in shorts, a muscular giant, in fact, on his knees, with big feet and nails and feet were very disturbing reality.

The guide informed us that the cruise ship nostalgia of the season, should remain in the city.

Our last stop on our adventure in the Baltic Sea, Oslo, Norway, a very expensive city, where the speakers of the richest oil reserves in the country in the North Sea. The financial crisis has Norway with the intensity that other countries have taken taken. I have been in recent years, Norway, and here and there I found an interesting city for touristing. According to our calculations differ, the morning we walked from the dock of the main pedestrian shopping street that was practically by those who had visited, but seen Dolly pizza.

Moored next to our boat was a show of the family, the Christian Radich, one of the great sailing ships, which he sails during the parade of 1976, which was part of Operation Sail celebration saw the centenary of New York. Built ship with three masts, steel-hulled sailing ship in 1937, was originally a training vessel for shipment. In 1958 a film was shown in cinemas Cinemiracle specially equipped for a journey by ship. Since 1999 he has been privately owned and used for the Charter.

In our tour in the course of the day we visited the Museum of Thor Heyerdahl (1914-2002) as their exploration of the ship, the Kon Tiki and Ra II This is an interesting museum, with a small segment of the movie Heyerdahl in 1947 to see. Then the Viking Ship Museum, where the old ship discovered by archaeologists, still in good shape visited displayed.

The leader speaks of several kings. One could ask their subjects: "You want to be a Christian?" If the person who said no, his head was cut off. For the king has become a saint? For fans of many years. The guide says that was King William IV, the so short that they as the fourth king, Christian He. was a drunkard after 5 hours did not care to hear.

In the afternoon we will visit the Vigeland Sculpture Park, with its 650 statues of naked granite. The city has since Gustav Vigeland (1869-1943) a house and studio, and gave them his art. Masons from the size of their models. On the summit of a mountain is the famous monolith of granite obelisk with 121 bodies intertwined. Some have as orgiastic, see the other as a metaphor for the birth of capitalism,River Cruise where people from each other to reach the summit.
Most of the statues Miles, Stockholm, saw the light, lyrical, elegant, and seems to float and fly, and while the Vigeland sculptures in stone, solid, hard on the ground, monumental, earth.

Another was the famous Norwegian painter Edvard Munch (1863-1944). His name is pronounced Monaco. His painting "The Scream" is known throughout the world. Vigeland and Munch together a girl, each on different days of the week to be with her. One day was a Munch from the days of Vigeland, enemies, and remained for years.

We arrived at the headquarters of the Gestapo, the Nazis in World War II. Many Norwegians still have a grudge against the Swedes, for although it remained neutral in World War II, allowed the Germans to Sweden in his invasion of Norway during World War II to cross.

The Nobel Peace Prize will hold every year in Norway, and the price is usually a speech in Oslo. He or she often appears on the terrace of the Grand Hotel. Norway was the home of playwright Henrik Ibsen, was converted to the modern theater.

Departure from Fred Olsen Cruises to a beautiful panoramic view, as we head to the channel, while not as surprising as it is from Stockholm. When you sit with a cocktail in the crow's nest at sunset, the sky was a beautiful blue Gold Plate.

Everywhere on every visit, local leaders said mitigated the negative impact of the global economic slowdown, rising unemployment, the oppression of money and a decline in activity, but in Norway the crisis were from wealthy oil bonanza.
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