SHIP TO SHORE
Scandinavians have a reputation as being more liberal than most, but I never imagined I would be cycling past so many naked figures. Strange beings, too: a nude man lifting a nude woman over his shoulder while nearby another naked fellow wrestles a giant lizard. They are not real people, of course, but a couple of the 212 bronze and granite statues by Gustav Vigeland in Oslo’s Frogner Park, the world’s largest single-sculptor display.
I cycle around a 17-metre tower then tussle with a very important decision: is the naked man fighting off flying babies or the angry toddler sublimely frozen in tantrum my favourite?
