Fleischers Hotel Voss

So, we decided to do the 7 hour train journey from Bergen to Oslo, since it is rated as being in the top 20 train journeys in the World! We weren't disappointed!!

We were booked on the train just before 8am from Bergen, and when we boarded, we were disappointed to find that we were in a 'two-seater' type seat, and only had half a window between us to view the amazing scenery :-( How unlucky!!

The ...

... the gard rale more often than i cared for!!

Not to mention all the time getting little glimpses over the trees of this torrent of white water running down the river. By this stage i think everyone in the bus, even those who had been rafting before were starting to question why they had signed up for this!

But after making it to our destination (sorry a random bridge in the middle of some road) we were all hurried off the bus and off to the side of the road, so not ...

Mĺndag gjekk turen til det vidaste. Eg byrja dagen pĺ Voss Folkemuseum i pĺvente av at ho eg skulle overraska med kaka og pakke skulle bli ferdig hjĺ tannlegen. Eg og to tyskarar myste rundt i museet i ein times tid, fřr eg tok turen ut i tunet. Der helste eg pĺ to lam som eg fekk lyst ĺ ta med meg ...

... encuentra Flam. - A mitad del recorrido, el tren se detiene en una cascada, donde varias bailarinas simulan "el baile el canto mediante el cual atraían a los montańeros". - Una vez llegamos a Flam, el cual se encuentra al final del Sognefjorden, hicimos un crucero hasta Gudvangen, donde nos esperaban varios autobuses para devolvernos a la estación de Voss. Un detalle muy importante ...

... with people all dressed up in suits and nice clothes (the Norwegians dress up for going out and dress down for work... yep, it's different), and the energy just pulsated. I loved it! We had originally planned to just check into our hostel and head straight to bed, but then changed our plans to take some pictures of this terrific city at night. The best part was walking to Bryggen, the UNESCO World Heritage site of the old wharve houses, quite similar to those that I saw in ...

... take pictures and check out the scenery. Met some really cool people at the hostel. This dude Ali from Iran now lives in Germany because he is a political refugee and let me tell you he has got some crazy stories. We listened to him for almost 2hrs in total telling some crazy stories about how he was being cased by Iranian Secret Service and sneaking across several countries borders, crazy crazy stories. Ali gave me some great tips on ...

... sátorral, akár szervezett úttal, bár utóbbi kicsit sokba fog kerülni. Bocsi, megint elkalandoztam, vissza a buszozáshoz.... Az első megállónk Borgundban volt, ahol megnéztük a leghíresebb Stave Church-ot (fotó), amely még az eredeti helyén áll és a legjobban megörzött fatemplom. Az osloi népmúzeumban is van egy, de az nem az eredeti helyén van (oda majd most hétvégén szándékozom menni). Már Borgund előtt megtapasztalhattuk az igazi Norvégiát a buszból! Csodálatos U-alakú v ...

... same of everything I'd seen. I think it would be great to do at the start of a Norwegian trip, but maybe not the end. Seagulls following the boat on the fjord cruise Fjord at the end of the cruise Anyway, I'd got in touch with Signe who lives in Aarhus, Denmark who I'd met in Stockholm and she'd invited me to come and visit, so next day I got on the ferry from bergen to Hantsholm.... Fairwell to Norway

... I look forward to getting to Spain where I can actually afford to go out and have a meal or get a drink...though I will miss the friendliness of the Scandinavian people, the clean cities and the lovely ladies. ...speaking of Spain - I fly there tomorrow afternoon. I'll be in Alicante a day then up to Valencia as my base for La Tomatina. (an example of the high prices in Norway: the bus from Bergen to the airport $10, the bus from Alicante airport to town $1.20)