Solstrand Fjord Hotel Bergen

... have travellin tips for us, they lived in Spain for 5 years and each have done some travellin in there own time!<br>the first day of the cruise was a sea day, we lazed around, had a cocktail and went to the casino on board... it was fun for me... I won 90bucks US!! Kristine wasn't so lucky...lol... the second day we got to Bergen;<br>Bergen used to be the capital of Norway, now Oslo is. Did you know it rains 300 days out of the year here ...

This morning we woke and started our morning very slowly. Todd &amp; Nick went out to a nearby bakery to get breakfast. I am getting way-too accustomed to fresh baked goods! Our first visit stop was the Bergen information to find the best place for just some family pool fun. I think we are all getting a little max-ed out on art, culture, and history. So, we figured out the bus system and took a ride to one of the shopping malls ...

... soup and fruit cordial was being served. This is also the start of the 4 Mountain Hike and where Marcela met us with some welcome provisions... and we were not even half way yet! With rain imminent I think Marcela made the right decision and chose to opt out and would not have enjoyed it because the conditions would have got worse. I just hoped my Knee would hold out? <br> Feeling slightly refreshed but sad to see Marcela go it was time to hit ...

... Floyen to see the views. Had yummy soft serve icecream with strawberry crunchy bits on it-is so worth the trip up to have just that!! Had dinner back in the town with three people from the tour at Egons restaurant. Fantastic pizza!!!! (Yes I know not very Norwegian but so far haven't really come across real Norwegian-and anyway Egon's appears to be a Norwegian chain......).

... had to offer. June 25, 2008 Today was the start of our three day tour we had signed up for before boarding the MV Explorer. We left early and headed to the Fjords and Briksdal Glacier. Along the way we stopped at a few different scenic views. We drove along some stunning fjords, where the fresh water provided a mirror image of the mountains above. We stopped a beautiful view of a waterfall, which seem to be plentiful in Norway. From there we ...

... and bars were open until 3am. I finally found myself asleep around 4am, but my train was at 5:15am, so I hopped on that since nobody was awake, and arrived back in Bergen for 630am, finally made it to the ship at 7am, showered and had breakfast, and then hopped back on a bus BACK to Voss at 8am to go white water rafting. Seem odd to you that I had to travel from Voss, to Bergen, and then BACK to Voss to go on this trip? Yeah, thank you SAS policy of enforcing that ...

... the setting was truly beautiful. On arrival into Goteborg i decided that i would get the tram out to my hostel, the STF Vandrahem Slottsskogen, which was just off the grand boulevard of Linnegatan. The cost Skr175 per night. It was the build up to getting the tram and the eventual tram ride that would provide me with my first few nerve wracking experiences in Sweden. The first was trying to take out some money, i tried putting my card in to the ATM but it just wouldn't go into ...

... overcome at the beauty and realization that i was doing this...was sitting there enjoying it and taking photos when two guys came up and started chatting with me. Andreas from Salzburg, Austria and Sasha from Germany. i made a little snowman and Sasha finished off his facial features. yes i do have pics...eventually ha. then Andreas walked on his own and Sasha and i kept walking around and ended up going up the moutian a clip and found this old ...

... No queue at the check-in meant plenty of time. But that was however tricky. We finally ended up being the last boarding the plane! Why? First we strolled and spent a considerable amount of time in a Shoe-shop (Nuch was not too happy with the shoes she has taken for the journey), then we ended up in a trap called Dixons with a small laptop being the bait. The deal did not work ...

... it's really a lot of fun because you never know where exactly you're going to end up. People who know the neighborhoods and know where interesting/curious things are located place caches at those locations, so when you go to get the cache you also see the interesting things. I went to the cathedral first, then up the hill to Skansenparken. There's a funicular railway that takes you up the hill (I walked instead). The views from up ...