Our final destination in Norway was Bergen, reputedly Norway’s most attractive city. It is thought that in the 1800s Bergen had the most wooden buildings of any city in Europe. It still has the most…
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Norway’s fourth largest city, Stavanger, is also one of its wealthiest, thanks first to fishing and more recently to oil. Around the harbour is a corpus of 18th and 19th century wooden houses which are…
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If, like Monty Python’s famous Norwegian Blue parrot, you are pining for the fjords, read on! Sognefjord is the second longest, second deepest fjord in the world. Only Scoresby Sund in Greenland exceeds it. Nicknamed…
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Gliding out of Geirangerfjord on the ‘Silent Boat’, we travelled down Sunylvsfjord and then Storfjord. In the late afternoon we reached the sea and the lovely port town of Ålesund. In the early hours of…
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What a difference dropping 1,200 metres in elevation makes. Back in Otta we caught a train to Dombas, then changed to another to reach Åndalsnes. The landscape from the train was soooo green. In 1924,…
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