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Bergen Slideshow
Bergen
Travel Blogs from Bergen, Norway
Norway
... passed out on the bus and I'm pretty sure pictures were taken of me snoring with mouth open, drool and all. Norway is an absolutely beautiful, expensive, relaxed, peaceful, rural, scenic, outdoorsy, rainy every other twenty minutes, Xtreme sport ...
Norway!
... i ate breakfast, showered... since i hadn't showered in four days, then went to bed! Now I am just hanging around Bergen, which is absolutely beautiful. I love it here. I fully plan to move here after college. There are fountains everywhere and parks ...
Land of the midnight sun
... English. The Norwegian people are very friendly and kind, and many of them seem to genuinely enjoy children. Bergen is quite scenic-- many multi-colored houses built up the side of the mountains overlooking the water. The weather was a ...
I'm living off of bread and smoked salmon
... we were all kind of buzzing and had a great time. Today I did a day trip on a boat through the longest fiord in Norway, the Sognefjorden fiord. It was a beautiful boat trip. The weather worked out great (it rains 275 days out of the year on ...
Hurtigrutin Boat lines to Artic
... boat line Google it. Each day at 8PM one of their fleet departs Bergen for Kirkenes making 35 stops in six days, then returns to Bergen. I made a snap decision to start a day early on my trip. Would go as far as Harstad on the Fifth day. It is ...
Beautiful Bergen
... Hunter Valley. To get to Bergen, we have to hopped on ferries intermittently instead of following the long fjords shorelines. We reached Bergen by noon and our centrally located hotel let us into the heart of Bergen easily. The first thing we did was ...
Bergen - 275 Days of Rain a Year...
... Leprosy. We spent the rest of the afternoon wandering around the beautiful old wooden buildings of Bryggen, to the "castle" of Bergen...the Rosenkratz Tower and Haakans Hall, both build in the 13th Century. They were actually destroyed in 1944 when a ...
Bergen - 276 Days of Rain a Year...
... familiar with Grieg as some of the other composers, but he is very well renowned, along with Ole Bull here in Norway and especially Bergen. Grieg's most famous piece is his Piano Concerto in A minor which he actually wrote during his time in Copenhagen. ...
Driving to Voss and Bergen - Off the Beaten Path
... back Wednesday to check out the Extreme Sports Week and then have dinner with the Skjervheim family. We took the "scenic" drive to Bergen along the Hardaugerfjord on route 7. It was quite a pretty drive but the Sognefjord and the places we had been ...
West into Norway
Took train from Stockholm changed in Oslo. Arrived late into Bergen. Helpful Norwegian on train let me use his cell phone to make reservation at hostel. Short walk from RR station. Rainy, plans to go north via Hurtigrutin boat. Left Sunday ...
Norway in a Nutshell and Bergen
... to turn your head towards, every view point is impressive and majestic. You arrive in Norway’s second biggest city and a UNESCO’s heritage site: Bergen. Bergen is a beautiful city with Medieval cobble stone streets, a gorgeous harbor and ...
Bergen Beckons By-Gone Years
... ). Quite simply, Bergen is a wonderful and immensely beautiful place to use as a staging area for seeing Norway. With a population of 250,000, Bergen was the capital of the medieval kingdom of Norway until the 14th century. It became a major ...
Testing testing one two
Jepp, snart klar for ferie. Ut i den store verden igjen. Tenkte jeg skulle prøve meg på en blogg denne gangen. Så får vi se hvordan det går. Det ble ikke Australia i år heller, men Kambodsja er jo spennende det også. Mye dramatisk og trist ...
Reflections of an Ancient Nordic Capital
... club called the Hanseatic League, an alliance of trading guilds, including Stockholm (Sweden), Hamburg (Germany), Lübeck (Germany), Bergen (Norway), Riga (Latvia), and Gdansk (Poland), that monopolized Northern Europe's commerce from the 13th to the 17th ...
Homesick v2.0
... there. Tears, frustration, need for lots of mommy time. We gave the kids the choice of where to eat, and being in Norway, home of the world's freshest fish, as well as great cheeses and terrific beer, they chose Italian. (We are definitely ...
7.fjell - 35 km - 2500 høydemeter på en dag
Endelig kom dagen vi ventet på. 7.fjellsturen i Bergen er kanskje en av de hardeste dagsturene i verden? 35 km i svært kuppert terreng på dårlige stier - vått, gjørmete og fuktig store deler av løypen. Nesten 2500 meter høydeforskjell er tungt ...
Pining for the fjords
(Jim) We are here in Bergen, Norway, where it is cold and rainy. Based on Friday's wholly atypical temperature of 70 degrees, we are all dressed in shorts except for me. During our morning walkies around the city, the kids complained ...
Beautiful Bergen and Surrounds
... waterfall which is pretty spectacular, if crowded. We returned to Eidfjord to finish our Hardanger exploration and return to Bergen with another beautiful boat trip to Lofthus, surrounded by apple groves (and thus known as the orchard of ...
The Norwegian West Coast.
... !) * Hakon's Hall (a royal building from the 13th Century) * Rosencrantz Tower (an old royal residence and fortified tower) * Old Bergen Museum (like Pioneer Village again, but this time got a guided tour!) * Bergen Maritime Museum (models of ships and ...
Beautiful train ride to Bergen and notes on Norway
... actually that isn't entirely correct since this whole country is incredibly beautiful, but the train ride is highly recommended. Bergen is also an awesome town. Norway has very much a New England look to it which is pretty cool because its like a hip ...
To climb a mountain
... at 8:30ish back at Bryggen. Dinner was at Egon just down the road from our hotel, and it was delicious. Nothing in Bergen (or Norway for that matter) is cheap - it’s all incredibly expensive. You want to got out and have a couple of beers and ...
Indre Arna Norway
Starting our road trip through Europe. Left Indre Arna at 7:09 a.m. Arrived at the ferry landing in Halhjem Ferjekai at 8:30 ...
Blue Bergen
Our final destination in Norway was Bergen, Norway's second largest city, situated on the west coast of the country. I was surprised by the seemingly instant transition from beautiful wilderness to city upon entering Bergen by train. We arrived around ...
Exploring Bergen on foot
... a little down time - again charging our batteries and those of our camera equipment, we set out on foot exploring Bergen. Nothing monumental, just really pretty neighborhoods, statues, and some very beautiful flowers. We got back to our room around ...
The Most Fantastic Train Ride Ever
Today is the long anticipated “Norway in a Nutshell” trip that would take us from Oslo to Bergen via train, ferry, bus, and then train again. Our train was leaving at 8:10 from Oslo S train station a few stops up from where we were staying. ...