Found a bakery for coffee and a crumpet. I had some administrative things to take care of regarding our train travel so Sandy and I walked the seven minutes to the central station (Sentralstasjon or Oslo S). The station is a marvel, more of a mammoth mall than a station. Clean, well organized, about 50% shops and department stores and 50% eating establishments. I know that we will yet be going through several stations that the tour books rate even higher, but this is the nicest one we've been in for a while. U.S Amtrak stations, even the best of them, are not near in the same league as these. I got the answers I needed from Carine. She printed a couple of reservations that we were not able to get from the U.S., and we were set.
I then set my goals on the Munch Museum. According to Apple maps it was about one half hour away, and it was a beautiful day, so why not walk it. Worked fine, except the Munch Museum has been moved to right next door to the train station. We did not walk back. A kindly bus driver gave us a free ride to the museum and then when we got off he went out of way twice to make sure we got to the right place.
Before reaching the Munch Museum we stopped at the unique opera house. It is a building that you look at and walk upon. I walked on it, bottom to top and top to bottom while Sandy was enjoying the Munch Museum. Perhaps it's not as famous as the Sydney Opera house, but they are working on it. I have heard it described as emulating a beach, or an iceberg, or a shipwreck. It is massive and with so many different slopes and angles the buildings shape changes every few steps that you take.
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