As I had announced in my blog, I spent four days in Oslo before Easter, visiting museums with my kids and my fiancee, and enjoying the place -new to all of us. Oslo is a relatively un-interesting city if you compare it to other European capitals, but it hides many treasures, as I was happy to discover: the museums hosting the Kon-Tiki and Ra II ships with which the Pacific and Atlantic oceans were crossed just as men could have done it 2000 years ago, the Polar museum with the Fram ship which was used for polar expeditions at the beginning of the XXth century, the Munch museum hosting many works by the Norwegian artist (by the way, the museum has a weekly contest for the best artwork you can create with material they make available to you at the end of the exhibition - I am on with a work called "Genesis", shown on the right), the fantastic Opera House, and more.

But most of all, Oslo is (not far from) where Bente lives. Bente is a long-time contributor to Science2.0, a theoretical astrophysicist, a science writer, and a whole lot more. Bente was worth a visit to Oslo by herself. We arranged to meet at the central station on Friday evening, and she came and picked us up for a tour of Oslo and a visit to the sculpture park west of the city, which we did not have time to visit earlier. Bente was a wonderful host, and we had a great time together. She even brought an Easter bunny with flowers, to send a message to Hank and Bloggy. Here we are next to the obelisk at the center of the park:

As you can probably tell from the picture, the weather was nice, but it was rather cold. So we left the park and found a bar, where we spent the rest of our time together chatting over hot chocolate (me I got myself I beer though). Thank you Bente for the great time together! Hope you'll visit Venice soon!