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From ferry quay to Bodø Railroad Station is an easy five minute walk, ...
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... 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.)
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However the cafe car is well stocked,...
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...the banquettes comfy, the scenery fine and the wi-fi works great.
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It only takes the four hours to get to Mosjøen, a town set on a quiet fjord...
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...with a significant tidal range, which warehouses along it had to take into consideration when building their foundations.
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Fru Haugans Hotel was started in 1794, making it the oldest in Northern Norway. An older section is now its highly rated restaurant.
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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?
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As for commercial windows, they let one know what their trade is all about...
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.... and, though only a town of 10,000, they are right up there with Oslo's fashions.
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The Boys Choir members came to evening practice on their bicycles, and parked them right where they were supposed to.
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This church's floor plan was frequently seen...a cross with diagonal walls at the intersection.
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Another example.
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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.
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Grave designs gave literal meaning to "pushing up the posies".
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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.
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Beyond the cemetery is the pastor's homestead, no longer in use, ...
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... but the church still is, such that tourists had to wait to go in for a funeral service to end.
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The interior is typical of the simple architecture of Nordic Lutheran churches...
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...with only the alter having a burst of decoration on it.
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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.
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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.
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On one side a staircase to the top of the out-cropping separates the building from the granite wall.
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On the inside, the interior stairs are a continuation of the exterior steps, leading to ...
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... the gallleries. On one end, a permanent display concerning the life and times of Peter Dass,...
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...on the other, space for temporary displays, such as this one of tea accessories.
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Back downstairs, the entry has the usual information desk and gift shop functions. 
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A corridor passes an auditorium, and leads to the cafe...set up today for the people attending the funeral.
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A service area sells coffee and such to visitors....what do you think Snøhetta thinks of those Coke coolers??
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And out back, a similar roof design provides cover to a patio, ...
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...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, ...
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...two small windows look to the sea, a bit like impressionist paintings in the wall.
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And on the end, a window wall looks across the arm of the sea to the pastoral scene on the opposite shore.
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Anette was so pleasant and skillful, Zhufeng decided to have her ...
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... clean-up her eyebrows as well.
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