Adventure, Culture and Romance
I’ve been asked if I’ve managed to experience anything other than expensive food and bad music on my trip. Any adventure, culture, even romance?! I guess those are the things one does like to go on vacations for. It would never be to just relax and enjoy a good life. No, not me.
Well, if you read the last post, then, yes I’ve had some adventure, but certainly not romance. Romance, ah, let’s see. I’m thirty years younger than my fellow passengers and twenty years older than the crew (except the captain and first mate, but they are not on my list of possible fling material). When I was cultured today by going to the open air museum in Trondhiem the tour guide was cute! Oh, wait; she could have been my daughter. Never mind. I’m not quite old enough to need that kind of self-affirmation.
As for culture, the walks around the various ports have been very intriguing. I’m into the architecture. I like how there is much more detail in the buildings here, at least the older ones. Modern buildings are just as bland, if not blander, than ours in the States. I figured out part of the story behind the red and white houses. Red is predominant because the red paint could be made with local materials found around the farm: ox blood, mineral stained soil, etc. Only wealthy people painted their houses white because white paint had to be bought in the city, it couldn’t be made. I haven’t heard about the ochre colored houses (the color that I’ve decided those yellow/orange houses are). Often they only painted the front side of their house white. They also used lambs to keep their sod roofs neat and trimmed. Mostly to keep trees from sprouting and rooting through the roof. I’m looking for an example to take a picture of because you know it would be dang cute. I wonder if Sequential Fuels in Eugene will use lambs on their roof?
Tomorrow we go on a tour of a glacier which, thanks to global warming, is receding faster than my hairline. I think we visit a few villages along the way. I’ll report appropriately. I’m actually looking forward to our top of Norway stop where we take a bus to the Russian border in order to buy Russian souvenirs. Now that’s culture!
Well, if you read the last post, then, yes I’ve had some adventure, but certainly not romance. Romance, ah, let’s see. I’m thirty years younger than my fellow passengers and twenty years older than the crew (except the captain and first mate, but they are not on my list of possible fling material). When I was cultured today by going to the open air museum in Trondhiem the tour guide was cute! Oh, wait; she could have been my daughter. Never mind. I’m not quite old enough to need that kind of self-affirmation.
As for culture, the walks around the various ports have been very intriguing. I’m into the architecture. I like how there is much more detail in the buildings here, at least the older ones. Modern buildings are just as bland, if not blander, than ours in the States. I figured out part of the story behind the red and white houses. Red is predominant because the red paint could be made with local materials found around the farm: ox blood, mineral stained soil, etc. Only wealthy people painted their houses white because white paint had to be bought in the city, it couldn’t be made. I haven’t heard about the ochre colored houses (the color that I’ve decided those yellow/orange houses are). Often they only painted the front side of their house white. They also used lambs to keep their sod roofs neat and trimmed. Mostly to keep trees from sprouting and rooting through the roof. I’m looking for an example to take a picture of because you know it would be dang cute. I wonder if Sequential Fuels in Eugene will use lambs on their roof?
Tomorrow we go on a tour of a glacier which, thanks to global warming, is receding faster than my hairline. I think we visit a few villages along the way. I’ll report appropriately. I’m actually looking forward to our top of Norway stop where we take a bus to the Russian border in order to buy Russian souvenirs. Now that’s culture!
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