Surprisingly tasty

A very few hours in Oslo poses the ques­tion of what to do.  Walk­ing on the Opera House roof is fun, watch­ing the har­bour is fun, get­ting lost around the castle is a bit try­ing, so we headed for what I have always felt to be one of the most amaz­ing places any­where — the Vige­land sculp­tures in their park­land set­ting.  I was bowled over by these when I first saw them in 1966 and they remain totally impress­ive, from the circle of baby fig­ures, to the avenue of act­ive fig­ures to the quieter groups round the amaz­ing cent­ral pil­lar.  I still find some of the pieces incred­ibly mov­ing, par­tic­u­larly those show­ing older people or fam­ily groups

And so it got to early even­ing, and we went in search of the res­taur­ant in the park, near the sculp­tures.  Alas, the ter­race was empty, the pavil­ion closed, but a handy sign poin­ted us round the corner to a new loc­a­tion, another, west-facing ter­race, where I had one of the tasti­est meals I have ever had in Nor­way, not a coun­try nor­mally famed for sub­tlety in cook­ing. (Bland and taste­less or very strongly fishy or cheesy).  But this roast sal­mon on sweet potato with capers was abso­lutely won­der­ful.  And not vastly expens­ive, either.