Today we woke to glorious sunshine, the first day of good weather since we arrived in Scandanavia. We had a wonderful day in Bergen, our favourite place so far. It is Norway's second largest city, however, it has a very small city feel to it, nestled between 7 beautiful mountains. The streets and alleyways are lined with colourful, wooden house and beautiful flower beds. We visited the fish market on the waterfront which was selling smoked salmon, gravalax, peppered mackerel crab and caviar to name a few, All the fish was pretty reasonably priced, approx 6 USD. We took a funicular to the top of Mount floyen, 300 meters above sea level, and had magnificent views of Bergen and its suburbs. We decided to walk down for a bit of exercise and had a lovely
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