This afternoon we took a rare outing to a museum. My elder daughter is doing a project at school on explorers; she’s doing some French bloke called Jacques Cartier (as in the jewellery) while her friend is working on Thor Heyerdahl, the Norwegian.We couldn’t just fly off to France (or even find a Cartier store) so instead we went to the Kon-Tiki Museum on Bygdøy which honours Thor Heyerdahl and shows exhibits on his various expeditions.
I came away thinking you’d want to be insane to try cross the Atlantic on bits of wood tied together with string but each to their own I guess. I fear death too much to take any such risks; especially death by shark attack or drowning. Mr Heyerdahl lived to be the ripe old age of 87.
Ra II
Glamourous Feet - the Arctic version
2 comments:
we have a copy of the boat in the Pyramid museum here in Tenerife and it looks very fragile. not sure I would want to cross an ocean in it.
Nikki, That's interesting. I think Thor Heyerdahl lived in Tenerife when he was older. Happy to cross oceans in flimsy boats but not up to enduring his twilight years amid Norwegian winters ;)
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