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Bergen Slideshow
Bergen
Travel Blogs from Bergen, Norway
MY SCANDINAVIA
I love Norway. And Bergen is just a very special place. I want to share with you some ...
The Death of my Bank Balance
... , £15 in Scandinavia Bus Ticket: £1.80 in Belgrade, £10 in Oslo Campsite: £10 per night in Romania, £35 per night in Norway Petrol: 80p a litre in Moldova, £1.35 a litre in Norway This place hurts!!! However, despite the pain my poor bank balance ...
Bergen and the Fjords
... to -- there did seem to be a road running along parts of the route though. Sognefjord is the longest Fjord in Norway, and incredibly deep -- apparently its 10x deeper than the North sea right next to it. Midway through, we cut down to ...
Bergen
Docked in the picturesque port of Bergen. Looked around the fish market, the old wooden warehouses in the Bryggen area and then went up the Funicular to a viewpoint overlooking the whole of the city. A beautiful city and the sun came out. Third Gala ...
A Day In Bergen
... 's decision to sunbake along the way seemed a bit strange to me! Once back at sea level we visited the main sights of Bergen itself including, the banquet hall of King Harald (something else after his first name), a 13th century church and a museum for ...
Quite A-Fjordable
... early at 5.30am on Sat to catch bus, then train to airport - nice plane and good service with Norweigian - arrived in Bergen early - raining. Josefina moaned about cold countries, whilst I enjoyed the views from coach window. No views in plane ...
Fjordtastic, or if you prefer, fjordtacular
I have just spent a couple of days in Bergen, Norway. Situated on the west coast of the country, Bergen is best known as being that largest city in the fjordal (is that a word?) region of Norway. So, while there, what else to do but see the fjords. My ...
Bergen
Our last stop in Norway was Bergen. As always we took the earliest tour that was available of our tour. We had to get up early (and that on vacation), but we had more free time and there aren't that much tourists around in the early morning. Today we ...
Bergen, at last
More than 3 weeks in the land of the brave and the free... Back to the rain. It have been a memorable ...
Oslo to Bergen train
... take the train trip back and take the Flam train which is supposed to be awesome (so I've been told). They say it's called Norway in a nutshell. However, apparently there was a landslide yesterday so I may have to stay an extra day in Bergen, which is a ...
The Best Fish Fingers
... nbsp; He was at our 'poof cafe' in about 30 mins. Headed off to his house on foot via the rain sculpture - Bergen's tourist monument erected to show off the amount of rain. Went via the Rema 1000 to buy expensive beer which our host graciously ...
Fjords, waterfalls & glaciers
Flew into Bergen and caught up with Sam Penglase. Bergen was very pretty. Hired a car and drove to Gudvangen on Sonjafjord. Caught a ferry to Flam and then the Flam railway and cycled down. Next day drove to Jostalbreen ...
An amazing train, boat and bus ride!
... last section in itself was picturesque but by this stage I was getting rather blase about still lakes and rushing rivers. Bergen itself looks like a beautiful city, more historical than Oslo, but we will leave that until tomorrow! Good night!! ...
DO NOT CROSS
... lake (even though we were 160 km inland). The purpose of our little expedition was to hike to the Voringsfoss Waterfall, one of Norway's most famous apparently. We expected an easy 45 minute walk to the falls, we were slightly mistaken. Yes, the path was ...
Day 2
Greeting from the middle of the Atlantic!! So good news on the luggage situation, my luggage is waiting for me in Norway! I think I'm going to do an outfit change every hour when I get it. Not to mention throw out the clothes that I ...
Rain - 300 days out of the year...CRAZY!!
Hey all! So our first stop with the cruise after a day at sea was Bergen, Norway. The ride here was great. Lots of eating and drinking involved with a cruise. I highly recommend it for a holiday that you can spend money on unlike leanne ...
Life in the busiest port of Scandinavia
... energy for day 2 so we decided to pack a lunch and go on a hike. First we stopped by a grocery store chain here in Norway called Rema 1000. I was fascinated with their small 'basket-carts" and was excited to try them out We got some goodies for our hike ...
Norway in a nutshell
... with the washing. The next few days in port and it rained for the first time. Thats when I heared the national symbol of bergen was the unbrella and I laughed as i thought they were joking. How wrong I was. However apart from those 2 ...
Fjords and the wrong seat on the train...
After a whirlwind trip thru New York it was time for me to head over to Norway for the summer rafting season. The day of my departure I woke a little late but with plans to grab some scotch to stash in my luggage and a slice of New York ...
Bye to Bergen
The day had finally arrived. We decided to meet at the airport in Bergen 08:00 local time. Everything went smoothly and we were ready for take off at 09:15. Benjamin and ...
Trolls
In Scandinavia, that is the counties of Sweden. Norway and Denmark, there are lots of stories about trolls. Sometimes they are kind and helpful and sometimes they are mean. Do you know any stories that have a troll in them ? Maybe Mrs Bartlett could read ...
Amazingly Beautiful Country Number 2: Norway
... bus on to Geiranger. All up it took about 10 hours with about half of that being just waiting around. But again Norway didn't disappoint. Driving down the winding roads above Geiranger gave amazing views of this little corner of the fjord. It was to ...
