Thon Hotel Bergen Airport Kokstad

Norwegians love to be active outdoors, even in the cool rain threatening weather. So Karen’s cousin, Lisa who is 38 and a mother of 2 young boys wanted to take us on a hike in the hills overlooking the fjords. We were all up for it. Due to her time constraints, she was on a 4-week holiday, but still had some work to do, she’s in marketing, and we decided to take the shorter of the 2 proposed hikes. Well ...

... with candle light. The fish was smoked halibut ( I believe) which is Terje's favorite. It was very good. With potatoes, veggies, and a salad. Then we had chocolate frozen yogurt for dessert. We leave tomorrow morning at 6am to catch our 8am flight. (They don't live far from the airport, you can see the planes take off from their windows). I have had such a great time being here. Nancy and Terje are wonderful. They welcomed us in as if we were their own daughters. We have been so ...

... little legs and hooves. From the meat market we went to the Floibanen funicular. It is a lift that takes you to the top of Mount Floyen. Wonderful views. On the lift on the way up there was a guy from Harrisonburg! He lived there as a child and went to Spotswood Elementary. Once again reminding us how small the world can really be. After we took a lot of great pictures we headed back through the town. We walked through the Bryggen wharf, where ...

Lovely city with thriving fish market, lovely architecture, old city area with character buildings and a furnicular that takes you up nearby moutain for spectacular views across city. A number of the passengers took the well advertised Norway in a nutshell tour but were ...

... to talking to a nice Taiwanese couple living in San Jose. James and Phoebe - they actually offered to let me visit them in their Lake Tahoe home within minutes of meeting me! Of course, they seem to do the vacation home exchange thing, so maybe that's more what they meant. Either way, it'd still be a good deal. It was a nice chat with nice people; they aren't very experienced with hostels and only stayed at one here ...

... Today is our one day weekend and everyone slept until noon which threw the cleaning staff off, my steward came in about 5 times and was like "Jess are you still sleeping?" I finally decided to roll out of bed and get lunch so he could clean my room. ;-) Great guy! Yesterday my only goal was to not fall asleep in Global Studies class and I was about 95% successful I ...

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... cruise guests have an opportunity to spend a few minutes to half a day at each port along the way, without missing any. For a current web cam view of the current location of the Midnatsol, copy the following link to your browser. http://www.bt.no/kamera/article239161.e ce?lang=en For a great map of the route, and the current position of the Midnatsol on the coast, click on the "map position" tab above the picture. You will see every town described in this travelogue.

... snow covered mountain peaks and alpine lakes with rustic ski cottages. Then we headed back down the mountains and arrived in the city of Bergen by the mid afternoon.<br><br>We found our way to our hostel and checked in. It was a bus ride away from the city (about an hours walk uphill) and dropped our bags before walking back into town for some touring. <br><br>Bergen was beautiful - more stuff on Bergen to follow.<br><br>Say something about languages

... neat and interesting. I learned a lot I didn't know about his life, saw his house, the villa where they have summer concerts and his grave. The house was really pretty, but smaller then I thought it would be. It was his only home too. I bought a t-shirt for a souvenir, it has music on it and is probably as close as I will get to finding my music notes t-shirt. I have to be a music nerd! After we finished the tour of Grieg's house, we had a little taste of typical Bergen weather. Rain ...