One book that had an impact when I was in High School was Scot’s Last Expedition. The story of a British explorer to the South Pole who was beaten to the South Pole by another exploration team and died on his way home. In Cambridge we saw the Polar Exploration Centre that was named in his honour. Today we visited the Fram Museum here in Oslo and realized that it was this Norwegian team that beat Scot to the South Pole. We saw the ship they took – it was especially designed with a round body to be pushed up out of the ice like a nut between two fingers, and it's propeller could be raised. On board they had a gramophone and an upright piano, which surprised me since it was a scientific journey, not a pleasure trip. I guess even explorers need to have some entertainment along the way. Travelling is such an education.
The Norwegians are quite into sailing and we also visited the Kon Tiki museum ( we had watched a movie on this before coming) about a team sailing across the Pacific on a raft.
In The Oslo harbour I counted over 20 sailboats about the size of Matt and Danielle’s.
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