A Little Bigger Than a Viking Long Ship
July 12th 2007 Oslo is the only point on this long journey that I have seen before, albeit briefly (one day) at the outset of winter more than ten years ago. Yet despite the long gap, as the MS Pearl of Scandinavia steamed up the fjord and into Oslo harbor, it felt something like a homecoming. I recognized the Bygdøy Peninsula, with its cluster of museums, slipping by on the right; I could see Akershus Slott (
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