En route to Kjeller, over a lake and under some clouds.
A 19th century renovation of the 13th century stave church from Gol, Norway, at the Norway Folk Museum.
“Angst” isn’t the most famous painting by Munch, but it’s a good one.
June 22 — Røros, Norway to Kjeller, Norway
Exploring Norway’s capital city
Oslo has a wonderful general aviation airport in a suburb called Kjeller. It’s a part-time military base, but when the military isn’t active it operates much like most US airports, with no control tower and pilots communicating their intentions in the blind on a common traffic frequency. There’s a bus stop just across the fence from where you park your plane, and the connections into Oslo are good.
It’s a visual flight rules airport; my job was to avoid restricted airspace and stay underneath the ceiling of the controlled airspace for Oslo, while maintaining the required distance from clouds and terrain. It gave me a fair amount to think about, but it wasn’t that difficult.
After checking into my hotel, I had time for a couple of museums. The Norwegian Folk Museum is excellent, especially its outdoor portion, where buildings from various towns and municipalities are on display. Reenactors do folk dances and play instruments and blacksmith and do woodwork and reenact other historical tasks. Then I headed off to the museum known simply as “Munch,” which consists of multiple floors of work by Edvard Munch and a couple of exhibits of work by others.
The Norway-Senegal game was scheduled for 2 a.m. Norway time, too late for me, but not for a large percentage of Norwegians; while I walked back to my hotel around 11 p.m., I encountered many people dressed in Norway jerseys and heading to or getting started with World Cup watching parties.