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day 14: lillehammer, maihaugen museum

at about 14:30 we arrived in the olympia town of 1994,
lillehammer. lillehammer itself is a rather small town, and the
legacy of the olympic games 13 years ago is still everywhere. and
of course there's the olympia park with all the nordic sports
things like ski jumps, ice-arena, etc. but we prefered the
maihaugen open-air museum instead. this museum was founded by a
dentist that started to collect various things, like houses, and
put them in his garden. soon he lacked space for more houses, so
the things were transfered to maihaugen. today there are 150 old
houses on 40 hectar. it is divided into several parts, ranging
from old rural farm houses, a stav church, a vicarage, and small
fishing shacks in one part, to modern buildings in the other
part. the most shocking things was an original house from the
1980s. at the entrance door a museum guide, dressed and styled in
80s look, was welcoming us and guided us through the basement of
the house. it was as a time-journey, since so many items were
familiar to me. i was so impressed, i forgot to take pictures.
another part was dedicated to lillehammer from about 1930.
original houses like a pharmacie, the post-office, a hairdresser,
a bakery, and much more were shown. we left the museum at 17:00,
because they were closing it.
after spending hours in this really awesome museum we drove on to
oslo, about 200km away from lillehammer.
just one word about distances here in scandinavia (especially in
norway), just in case you wonder why it takes us so long to get
from one point to another: the maximum speed is 80, there are no
highways. only occassionally the limit is 90km/h, more often the
limit is at 60km/h or 70km/h. this results in an estimated
duration of e.g. 7.5 hours for 500km, and tomtom does a generous
calculation. especially the roads along the fjordes are very
steep and curvy, so with the camper we rarely drove the maximum
speed. but the good thing about the speed limits are, that all
kind of vehicles driving, from campers to trucks, are (in theory)
able to go at that speed. additionally scandinavian people really
drive disciplined (except for some bad manners of mercedes
drivers, that seem to be independent to country and nationality).
i think the limits make sense, especially in winter, and during
summer one can at least enjoy the environment scrolling by - just
as we do.

 
 

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