Blogs from Western Norway, Norway, Europe - page 60

6/99-8/99 My parents were kind of against my new traveling ways, so I left for my first full-scale backpacking trip on my 18th birthday. Legally, they could not stop me! Here is a bit about each country I visited and what I did there. Iceland- 3 day stopover. Hitched everywhere as transport was too expensive. Visited Rejkjavik, the Blue Lagoon, Geysir, and Gullfoss. Sweden/Denmark/Finland/Estonia- Revisited some countries that I loved. Saw some old friends in Finland. Germany- Hamburg, Koln (thrilling cathedral!), Aachen, Rhine river area, Cochem (my favorite German town. Situated on the Mosel river with a castle looming above), Frankfurt, Rothenburg, Heidelberg, Munich, Lindau, Dresden, Berlin, Lubeck. I had a lot of places I wanted to see in Germany and was rarely disappointed. Germany had some of the best-preserved sights coupled with the best ... read more

Hi all thanks for all your messages keep them coming. We have been on the road for over two weeks now and all i can say is what an amazing place Norway is we have done approx 2500KM. After arriving in Stavanger we headed south and east down the coast to Oslo and met up with a friend for a couple of days. We happened to be in Oslo for National day when all Norwegiens celebrate the creation of Norway and the women dress up in national costume there are different costumes for different parts of the country. Now we have come west again to Bergen and are now heading north. Norway - What a place full of mountains, tunnels, lakes (some frozen) around every corner, fjords and blonde blue eyed women!!! We decided to avoid ... read more

After my disappointing introduction to Norway, I found Bergen absolutely incredible and it could do no wrong despite its abnormally frigid weather that caused me to hide indoors at the guesthouse reading the trashy romances. I'm not sure whether it was the charming painted wooden houses with its funky colored doors built upon narrow non-grid like winding streets or if it was the layout of the city with its houses built in steps on the hill side each with a great view of down below and the harbour. The city was great for a casual stroll down at the harbour or browsing through the galleries housed in the historic area of Bryggen with restorations ongoing using traditional methods and materials. My one and only museum stop in Bergen was to the Hanseatic Museum, a restored ... read more

So after more than 5 hours on the boat, watching how the world is amazing everywhere and how you can feel yourself free and spiritualy high in these kind of places, it was time to come down to earth and find the way to the hostel in Montana, out of town... I finally got there just on time to see a bit of the sunset, it was probably around 10:30 pm, surprising for me ! I had only one day to explore Bergen, i don't think i saw a lot but... I started early in the morning to climb all the way up to the Mount Ulriken, 642 m, highest of the seven mountains surroundding Bergen, kind of hard walk, very steep, through the clouds, actually litterally in the clouds, so i couldn't get the ... read more

Up North to Flam Europe » Norway » Sognefjord By Olivi3rMay 2nd 2007The SognefjordAfter few very peaceful days in Oslo with Carina, i took the train to go further north, to Myrdal, in the mountains, then, the famous raiway Myrdal - Flam, amazing first part of the trip... Again and again surprising landscape, dreaming scenery... I stayed overnight in Flam, hiking at the end of the first day, inside the Flam valley, and the morning after to Otternes, the tiny little town, overhanging the Sognefjord, had lunch there and just enjoying the sun, the silence, the view and everything i could received from the Earth...... read more