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gluecookie and I went to the Army Museum, on a guided tour about the Swedish Empire and to see the new temporary exhibition about Poltava. There's been a lot of attention given to the commemoration year 1809-2009, but not much at all to 1709-2009. Which is interesting, because while the loss of Finland was important in shaping Sweden of today, I think the beginning of the fall of the empire was too?
I suppose there is a lot of shame connected to Poltava, but... Not even the Hetalia fandom has noticed this. Hello, guys? The Battle of Poltava?
Bought three books: one about the Dano-Swedish wars in the 1600s, one about ghosts and haunted places in Stockholm, and one about Greek myths and their function through the ages. ^^
Ah, and yes. Last post on Oslo. Here goes.
Remember Roosevelt yesterday? This is Churchill. His spot is not very flattering.
See? It's not even in central Oslo. XDDD Anyway, we were there because we had to run into a supermarket to buy some crisps and buns for the ducks. We were going to Vigelandsparken...
Vigelandsparken is basically the part of Frogner Park, finished in 1950, featuring a huge number of statues by sculptor Gustav Vigeland. It's rather impressive, but the fact that all the statues are naked people of different ages miiight be slightly off-putting. Or maybe that's just me. Norway, who knew?
BUTTSEX. This is a good example.
The view from the center of the park, by the monolith, was mighty impressive though.
The monolith. Wikipedia tries to convince me that it's a symbol for humanity's longing for heaven and the divine. I guess that means that there's something wrong with ME when I say that I think it resembles a phallic symbol made up by people more...
When I saw this, I finally realized I wasn't in Sweden anymore.
The "back" of the park.
It was beautiful weather that day, and I really liked this statue. It irks me that I couldn't have taken the photo juust a bit more to the left and cut out the other stuff in the corner.
A view of the monolith and surrounding statues.
We walked around in the park for a while, trying to find the ducks. We found the ducks. And geese, and seagulls. What was supposed to be an enjoyable session of feeding waterfowl turned into a war to prevent the damn seagulls from stealing all the bread pieces (who knew geese could make puppy eyes? D:). I don't know for how long we did this, but we managed to eat the crisps as well and find our way back to the city centre.
Shopping in Oslo is hard for a Swede, because there are so few things to buy that I can't find at home for a much cheaper price. XP In the end, I got me three CDs of Norwegian folk music and Finnish tango.
My last night in Oslo was spent... In front of the television.
Yeah, I'm awesome like that. Seriously though, we were both really tired. XD And there were good stuff on the telly... Midsomer Murders, and the Return of the King. Although the last one was a bit hard to take seriously at times. >w>;ARAGORN!!!
Besides, I failed and fell asleep anyway. Twice. =w=;;
I remember Saturday morning as... Some kind of haze of packing, eating breakfast, and making small talk. And perhaps working as aenesthesia when I got on the train to Stockholm.
I don't really have much to say about this trip that can be put into words except:
June, next time I'll kidnap you for real. :I
Edit: leaving this open for a while... Also, I just realized that next week is the Pride week! And the Army Museum is contributing by showing a photo exhibition of three of our former regents as flaming gay. Sometimes I love my country.
Also, the National Museum of Historical Antiques are having tours about how the hetero norm have shaped our view on vikings, and how it REALLY was... :D
My combined geek and slash fangirl is showing.
gluecookie and I went to the Army Museum, on a guided tour about the Swedish Empire and to see the new temporary exhibition about Poltava. There's been a lot of attention given to the commemoration year 1809-2009, but not much at all to 1709-2009. Which is interesting, because while the loss of Finland was important in shaping Sweden of today, I think the beginning of the fall of the empire was too?I suppose there is a lot of shame connected to Poltava, but... Not even the Hetalia fandom has noticed this. Hello, guys? The Battle of Poltava?
Bought three books: one about the Dano-Swedish wars in the 1600s, one about ghosts and haunted places in Stockholm, and one about Greek myths and their function through the ages. ^^
Ah, and yes. Last post on Oslo. Here goes.
Remember Roosevelt yesterday? This is Churchill. His spot is not very flattering.
See? It's not even in central Oslo. XDDD Anyway, we were there because we had to run into a supermarket to buy some crisps and buns for the ducks. We were going to Vigelandsparken...
Vigelandsparken is basically the part of Frogner Park, finished in 1950, featuring a huge number of statues by sculptor Gustav Vigeland. It's rather impressive, but the fact that all the statues are naked people of different ages miiight be slightly off-putting. Or maybe that's just me. Norway, who knew?
The view from the center of the park, by the monolith, was mighty impressive though.
The monolith. Wikipedia tries to convince me that it's a symbol for humanity's longing for heaven and the divine. I guess that means that there's something wrong with ME when I say that I think it resembles a phallic symbol made up by people more...
The "back" of the park.
It was beautiful weather that day, and I really liked this statue. It irks me that I couldn't have taken the photo juust a bit more to the left and cut out the other stuff in the corner.
A view of the monolith and surrounding statues.
We walked around in the park for a while, trying to find the ducks. We found the ducks. And geese, and seagulls. What was supposed to be an enjoyable session of feeding waterfowl turned into a war to prevent the damn seagulls from stealing all the bread pieces (who knew geese could make puppy eyes? D:). I don't know for how long we did this, but we managed to eat the crisps as well and find our way back to the city centre.
Shopping in Oslo is hard for a Swede, because there are so few things to buy that I can't find at home for a much cheaper price. XP In the end, I got me three CDs of Norwegian folk music and Finnish tango.
My last night in Oslo was spent... In front of the television.
Yeah, I'm awesome like that. Seriously though, we were both really tired. XD And there were good stuff on the telly... Midsomer Murders, and the Return of the King. Although the last one was a bit hard to take seriously at times. >w>;
Besides, I failed and fell asleep anyway. Twice. =w=;;
I remember Saturday morning as... Some kind of haze of packing, eating breakfast, and making small talk. And perhaps working as aenesthesia when I got on the train to Stockholm.
I don't really have much to say about this trip that can be put into words except:
June, next time I'll kidnap you for real. :I
Edit: leaving this open for a while... Also, I just realized that next week is the Pride week! And the Army Museum is contributing by showing a photo exhibition of three of our former regents as flaming gay. Sometimes I love my country.
Also, the National Museum of Historical Antiques are having tours about how the hetero norm have shaped our view on vikings, and how it REALLY was... :D
My combined geek and slash fangirl is showing.
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Date: 2009-07-23 08:18 pm (UTC)No seriously, nothing can convince me that Monolitten is anything but a giant phallic symbol made up by an orgy. Nothing. >_<
haha~ I was watching Return of the King too! But I totally passed out D: And I haven't seen it in so long >_
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Date: 2009-07-23 08:29 pm (UTC)And that's terrible. That orgy involves children. D: But yes. That's what I thought too. That's what EVERYBODY thinks deep down inside, I'm sure of it.
I fell asleep for about the last half hour. XD I think Frodo and Sam were on screen. They're so boring. At least, Frodo is. :I
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Date: 2009-07-23 09:00 pm (UTC)THERE ARE NAKED STATUES
AND THEN THERE ARE NAKED STATUES. OR SOMETHING.
Oh, the statues are very nice. Especially the ones in stone, which you can see here. But it's... Well, there are so many of them, and not ONE is wearing as much as a thread of cloth, and that combined with that pillar is just... Overwhelming. XDDD
And I just keep seeing Norway, as stonefaced as the statues, seriously inspecting each and every one of them. And something inside of me breaks.
OH U I can unlock it for a while if it's that awesome.
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Date: 2009-07-23 09:33 pm (UTC)THIS INCLUDES PUBLIC SAUNAS FOR MEN ONLY.Carl Milles' statues everywhere? XDNothing beats Iceland though... Penis museum. Flippin' penis museum. NORWAY WHAT DID YOU DO WROOONG--
So welcome~~
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Date: 2009-07-25 07:12 am (UTC)I couldn't help myself yesterday - so I checked out the exhibition at the Army museum. It was quite fun, I got there when they had just begun the vernissage. The guide we had the other day was there- and so was the guy who was acting random people. HE WAS WEARING A CAROLEAN UNIFORM AGAIN. WILL NOT FANGIRL WILL NOT FANGIRL WILL NOT FANGIRL... *dies* The exhibition itself was fun - it was mainly about how our Kings have acted as symbols for both queer people and nationalists. They also said some trufax about 'em which has caused debates over the centuries.
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Date: 2009-07-25 12:25 pm (UTC)Actually, I don't.... WAITWHAT. YOU WENT WITHOUT ME?! D: You eeeevil thing, you. And here I didn't even bother to check by SMS because I figured you were probably halfway across the country by now. :I
So I missed the opening... OTL And will now have to go alone! Somehow, I fear that mum will force me to take my homophobic sister with me... D:
Also: we shall have to look for patterns for Carolean uniforms. XD
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