Jarl Voss

... was packed as well, so we couldn't even move :-( Then, after setting off, the guard announced over the tannoy that upgrades were available for 90 kroner (about Ł9) Comparatively, train travel in Norway is really cheap compared to everything else there. It only cost us about Ł20 for our original (bought in advance) tickets.

When the guard came round, we asked for the upgrade, and ended up with a 4 ...

... block on coming traffic. At this point we were given a samety demonstration and reminded about the insurance policy they were selling!

This talk was briefly inturupted by a scream as one of the white water rafting guides jumped from the ledge of the bridge into the frothy white water swirling around like a washing machine 15 metres below!! I couldn't help but feel a little giddy at this point!

Thankfully we were not told to jump from the bridge, but we did have to scale ...

... long Sognefjord, which is the longest and deepest fjord in the world. Sognefjord has some narrow passageways but is still accessible to large cruise ships. Great news for cruisers. Not so good news for those trying to get away from swaths of humans. Flĺm is also where the steepest non-cog railway is located. It spirals up to the main train line that runs from Oslo to Bergen. We were a bit late to catch a train ...

... que todas las escursiones que se organizan por la zona, especialmente las organizadas por FjordTours, se tratan de rutas combinadas de autobuses, barcos y trenes, los cuales se pueden comprar por separado, puesto que son trayectos regulares, pero además de ser más sencillo adquirirlo así, te aseguras que tu próximo medio de transporte te estará esperando, dure lo que dure el actual.

... seats - ended up we could not even sit together or at a window, but even so you could not miss the view!

Highlight of that part of the trip was a stop at the waterfall which thunders down the mountain right beside the train, posing in the spray for photos while Greig's music played & girls danced on the rocky outcrops above us

Changed trains at Myrdal at 1700 then more stark alpine scenery on the way back to Voss, arriving back ...

... However, these picturesque and delightful structures have a different history. When a Dutch ship exploded in the harbor sometime during the early 20th century, the houses got all shifted around. Consequently, they lean over to the side a bit, and have these crooked door frames, just adding to the character and mystique of them even more. They used to be fishing and shipping houses, but now they are great souvenir shops with lots of trolls, cheese slicers, and Viking ...

... Iran and invited me to hang out in Germany. Ali, I will see you in about a month bro. This other dude Josh (from Australia) and I might meet up in some of the Baltic countries in a couple of weeks. And this really cool German girl, Gina, lives in southern Spain which I haven't done yet, so she said she would show me around southern Spain. We all went out and got some beers at night. And by beers I actually mean that I got "a" beer, as in one.

... hegyek, káprázatos természet(fotó!) Amúgy 63-an mentünk a kirándulásra, emeletes busszal. Én az emeleten ültem, igaz nem elöl, de még így is volt, hogy alig mertem kinézni. Mikor a szikla csak kb 5 cm-re volt tőlem, hát.. ijesztő volt. De volt olyan is, hogy kb fél méterre a busztól volt egy vízesés. Hát, vízesésből láttam eleget, sok képem is van, de mindegyik külön csodálatot érdemel. Az első éjszakát Laerdalban töltöttük, egy hotelban. A szállások nagyon jók ...

... at a campground. That was cool - we cooked dinner and hung out then had breakfast in the morning. The weather was reasonably good the next day so we went for a hike to Storseterfossen. The others were rather slow (actually, very slow) so I had to race ahead, see the waterfall then race back to get our bags out of the tourist office before it closed. They headed back north to catch a ferry down the coast and I took the ferry through the fjord to ...

... below. The fjord ferry looked very small. After a few pictures we pushed on. There were still 3 more passes to go up and over before Řygardstolen. The storm raged on and we had to use chains bolted into the side of the mountain slab in order to get up and over without blowing into the fjord. It sounds like we weren't having fun but thats so not true. The clouds were flying out of the fjords in a tempest. Rather Valhalla like. We had a great trip but decided that we were too wet ...