Oslo Folk museum

We competed our day with the Folk museum which is a collection of original houses and farm building from around Norway. These have been set as far as possible, in the same hamlet style from where they came.  A lot of the houses were open with displays and activities and manned by very knowledgeable and friendly young students. We enjoyed a cup of coffee made over the open fire in a traditional eighteenth century farmhouse by a young lady in traditional costume. They had also remade an area of old town house from Oslo which again gave us an insight into life in the late 1800’s. Many people were living in one room with no kitchens, bathrooms or toilet facilities much the same as Britain of the same era. It made us realise how lucky we are and how much we have progressed in the last hundred or so years.