From ferry quay to Bodø Railroad Station is an easy five minute walk, ...
... but the train to Oslo (the one on the left) is a long ride: about 20 hours. (Shorter runs are done in the other, shorter, train.)
However the cafe car is well stocked,...
...the banquettes comfy, the scenery fine and the wi-fi works great.
It only takes the four hours to get to Mosjøen, a town set on a quiet fjord...
...with a significant tidal range, which warehouses along it had to take into consideration when building their foundations.
Fru Haugans Hotel was started in 1794, making it the oldest in Northern Norway. An older section is now its highly rated restaurant.
Residential windows often have these decorations: a fabric backdrop of some sort; a single pendant light; an array of plants and other small objects. Maybe it is the long winter nights which led to having a light in each window of a house, to break the enveloping darkness?
As for commercial windows, they let one know what their trade is all about...
.... and, though only a town of 10,000, they are right up there with Oslo's fashions.
The Boys Choir members came to evening practice on their bicycles, and parked them right where they were supposed to.
This church's floor plan was frequently seen...a cross with diagonal walls at the intersection.
Another example.
Another plan often seen is quite simple: the porch, the entry foyer with steeple above, the nave with ample windows, and the smaller chancel at the far end.
Grave designs gave literal meaning to "pushing up the posies".
The most famous church in the area is the one in Alstahaug, where the pastor-poet Peter Dass lived from 1689-1707. He wrote many hymns and texts explaining the Lutheran Church to his flock of fisherman and farmers, which have endured in the body of Norwegian literature.
Beyond the cemetery is the pastor's homestead, no longer in use, ...
... but the church still is, such that tourists had to wait to go in for a funeral service to end.
The interior is typical of the simple architecture of Nordic Lutheran churches...
...with only the alter having a burst of decoration on it.
When it was decided to build a museum to Dass (in 2007), where to put it was a problem. Behind the church is the cemetery; in front is the homestead; to one side is access and parking; on the other, a granite out-cropping. Snøhetta proposed cutting a slice out of the granite out-cropping and slip the museum in it. Still near, but not over-bearing. Indeed, it looks more like it is paying respects to the church with a bow.
They wanted natural light in the museum, but not two stories of reflecting glass adjacent to the church: so, the roof was pulled over and down, both protecting the entrance and providing a large surface for glazing.
On one side a staircase to the top of the out-cropping separates the building from the granite wall.
On the inside, the interior stairs are a continuation of the exterior steps, leading to ...
... the gallleries. On one end, a permanent display concerning the life and times of Peter Dass,...
...on the other, space for temporary displays, such as this one of tea accessories.
Back downstairs, the entry has the usual information desk and gift shop functions.
A corridor passes an auditorium, and leads to the cafe...set up today for the people attending the funeral.
A service area sells coffee and such to visitors....what do you think Snøhetta thinks of those Coke coolers??
And out back, a similar roof design provides cover to a patio, ...
...which looks out upon a short arm of the sea. The end of the upper level of the museum has two window groupings. On the right, ...
...two small windows look to the sea, a bit like impressionist paintings in the wall.
And on the end, a window wall looks across the arm of the sea to the pastoral scene on the opposite shore.
Anette was so pleasant and skillful, Zhufeng decided to have her ...
... clean-up her eyebrows as well.
