Roald Amundsens vei 192, 1420 Svartskog, Norway
He lived in this house for 20 years and everything inside it remains exactly as on the day of 14 June 1928 when he went out of the door for the last time to disappear in the Arctic on a rescue attempt of the pathetic Italia expedition. His table calendar bears his last handwritten note on 11 June, his map of Antarctica has got a bit darker with time, his stuffed penguin has not changed at all. His toothbrush is in the bathroom, his bed made and his desk is full of papers and books: he was certainly planning to come back.
Walking in Amundsen's steps over the stairs to his cabinet with a view over the fjord is only comparable with seeing John Lennon's teenage bedroom in his aunt's house in Liverpool with a guitar lying over his bed. You feel the smells and you breathe the air and you know he was here, he most certainly was. This is why you are here now and as from today will be always coming back to this moment, ever and ever till the end of your days.
