Subtitle: Faith and I took a boat tour of Oslo and the "fjords."
Oslo doesn't really have proper fjords, but it was a nice, scenic
tour of the area and a very nice day.
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A mini-update.  The area is called <i>Oslofjord</i> and it is <i>not</i>
considered a fjord in the geological sense, but rather it simply means
&quot;waterway&quot; or in this case &quot;bay&quot;.  No false advertising
here, merely false cognates (or &quot;false friends&quot; as a cunning 
linguist I knew referred to them).
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I was in Oslo from May 21-24, 2015.
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Other pages from the Norway trip:
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<li><a href="http://frank.notfrank.com/cgi-bin/gallery-thumb.py?id=NO-SVG">
Stavanger, Norway</a></li>
<li><a href="http://frank.notfrank.com/cgi-bin/gallery-thumb.py?id=NO-OSL">
Oslo, Norway</a></li>
<li><a href="http://frank.notfrank.com/cgi-bin/gallery-thumb.py?id=NO-OSL1">
Downtown Oslo</a></li>
<li>Boat Tour of Oslo, Norway</li>
<li><a href="http://frank.notfrank.com/cgi-bin/gallery-thumb.py?id=NO-frog">
Frogner Park, Oslo, Norway</a></li>
<li><a href="http://frank.notfrank.com/cgi-bin/gallery-thumb.py?id=NO-home">
The Trip Back Home</a></li>
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000-DSC_7754: The place to get tickets for the boat tour of Oslo.  Actually,
we got our tickets the day before at the tourist center, but this seemed like
a good starting place.
001-DSC_7759: A deckful of tourists.
002-DSC_7764: Frank and Faith on the tour boat.  It was <i>not</i> a three
hour tour (a three hour tour).  (I know who&apos;d get the role of
Gilligan...)
003-DSC_7766: Safety briefing about how to put on life vests.  Grab one.
004-DSC_7767: Awkwardly fumble with it.
005-DSC_7768: Secure it while the frigid May waters of the bay that come
from the North Sea draw the very life from your body.
006-DSC_7769: A boat and old fort (Akershus Fortress)
007-DSC_7770: Akershut Fortress is in the center of Oslo and about 700 years
old.
008-DSC_7771: Apartments on the bay.
009-DSC_7772: That&apos;a big ship.
010-DSC_7774: The back end (OK, the stern) of the big ship and Akershut
Fortress.
011-DSC_7775: More stern and fortress.
012-DSC_7777: I counted around 14 decks of cruise ship there.  Yow.  Though
for all I know, it might be considered merely huge and barely enormous.
013-DSC_7778: The Fortress stretches on.  It is a public historic area.
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015-DSC_7780: The Oslo Opera House
016-DSC_7784: The Oslo Opera House
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018-DSC_7786: <i>She Lies</i>!  That's the name of the glass and steel 
sculpture in the water in front of the Oslo Opera House.
019-DSC_7787: People taking pictures of <i>She Lies</i>
020-DSC_7788: A big-ass cruise ship.
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064-DSC_7847: If you really hate neighbors, this might be the place for you.
065-DSC_7848: Sailboat and motorboat
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067-DSC_7851: A really big, big-ass cruise ship
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069-DSC_7854: Another big honking cruise ship.  
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071-DSC_7856: Note the two bridge wings that hang over the side of the 
ship.  This allows the captain a clear view of the edge of the ship and 
the dock when docking.
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076-DSC_7864: Oslo City Hall (with the clock on it).
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078-DSC_7867: Back at the dock
079-DSC_7868: "Hey Faith, turn around!" &lt;click&gt;
080-DSC_7869: Frank on the boat.
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082-DSC_7872: History on the tour boat <i>Johanna</i>.  It's in Norwegian
and I don&apos't feel like typing it into Google Translate again.  It&apos;s
over 100 years old.
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085-DSC_7875: Another tour boat coming in to dock.
086-DSC_7879: Faith taking a picture of me taking a picture of her and
the tour boat <i>Johanna</i>.
087-ship_Panorama: A quick vertical panorama of the ship on which we took
the tour.