2023 FS Badehus
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Badehus The small houses along the waterfront here are bathing houses, each belonging to a summer house further up the hill. They were built at a time when it was unthinkable to be seen swimming in a bikini, and much less naked. The original bathing houses were standing on poles in the water, but ice and stormy winters have destroyed many of them. A staircase ran from the door of the house down to a room with barred walls, where people would sit in the shadows and splash around in the water while they talked with their neighbors through the wall without being seen. During the prohibition period in the 1920’s, when alcohol was strictly forbidden in Norway, the bathing houses at Nesodden were used extensively by smugglers. Being accessible by boat but not visible from Oslo, the houses were the perfect location for the illegal sale of alcohol. Nowadays we can joyfully view them as “pearls of beauty” on a string.