Archive for December, 2008

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…on the way to Oslo

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Kon Tiki & FRAM Museum in Oslo

Kon-Tiki is the raft used by Norwegian explorer and writer Thor Heyerdahl in his 1947 expedition across the Pacific Ocean from South America to the Polynesian islands. It was named after the Inca sun god, Viracocha, for whom “Kon-Tiki” was said to be an old name. Heyerdahl believed that people from South America could have settled Polynesia in pre-Columbian times. His aim in mounting the Kon-Tiki expedition was to show, by using only the materials and technologies available to those people at the time, that there were no technical reasons to prevent them from having done so.

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Waffle Tower

…as usually I am lucky to see only the first half of the things 🙂

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Paříž

“We’ll always have Paris. But then again, that means we’ll always have a lot of French people 😆 .”

View from Notre Dame de Paris, top floor

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