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Stunning Norway - Part II
Here is the second part of our time in Norway. I've recently become somewhat lazy with the names of the photos, but it takes up so much time and makes me want to slam the lid of the computer on my head, so they mostly get generic names nowadays.
This second half included another cruise on a fjord, this time on a sunny day. We were in the town of Flåm which also has the Flåmsbana, said to be the steepest train ride in the world ...
Flam
... off just after noon and the trail is marked very well.
At first it is kind of steep with switchbacks but nothing too bad. But then, we've been hiking Mingus Mountain to get in shape for this. We overtrained. On the other hand, Mingus didn't have the gorgeous waterfall running along side that turned into a powerful river that you follow back to the ship. The trail is really more of a road and there were plenty of mountain ...
A Fjord in the road
... weather improving, so decided to forge on and do the Brekkefossen waterfall hike. The route took me past the camping grounds again and out and up the valley which is the route taken by the Flamsbana (Flam railway). Soon I saw the footpath sign and veered off the road and up a very muddy and wet track. Nice. After being rained on, the heavens lifted momentarily for me to get a couple of shots looking over Flam and out down the fjord. The waterfall was nice and powerful, with a ...
Day 4 - Stavanger to Flaam
... sign of it yet so will hit the spa this afternoon. Took a few pics including one of a river with a white house by it...
Took lunch in the restaurant today, not sure that the cattle market, 'pile it on two plates haven't eaten for a week' aka the kings court buffet, is something we want to experience today. So we didn't. Nice mulligatawny soup and a bit of tuna instead. We headed off to the spa after checking out the library and the Internet room, which was ...
We have a convoy
Not sure if I mentioned the Vigeland Sculpture park we visited in Oslo. Well worth a visit, and it continued the trend of nude statues we had already noticed. Not sure why in such a cold place.
Anyway we left Oslo early on a fine morning expecting to be at our destination early afternoon. We were travelling on the Bergen train to Myrdal and then catching the train on the very scenic route down to ...


