Bergen, smelly fish & seals

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Bergen was once the capital of Norway until someone had the wonderful idea to up and move the the production to Oslo. I´ve never seen a city with houses in the mountains until Bergen. Very beautiful. I actually thought about jumping on the overnight train back to Oslo, but settled on staying in Bergen. For three nights. The city is surrounded by seven mountains, one of which I hiked up one morning I was there. Quite amazing were all the tunnels that cut clearly through the mountains (the city is actually on on several sides of these various mountains, connected with tunnels.)

On the weekends, downtown Bergen has a huge fish market. I arrived just as things were winding down, which was nice considering the amount of tourists that come through. At the market you can buy everything from goat cheese to vegetables to seal skin to... fish. At night, on my way to the bus, I took a wrong turn (or four) and stumbled across some teenagers making out on cars, smoking cigarettes a painting some beautiful graffiti. I´ve never been a huge fan of museums, so it doesn´t make much sense for me to visit them when I´m a trip, as if I´ll suddenly enjoy them. Plus, this art was much better (and far more entertaining to see.)

I´ll also post some photos from the return trip to Oslo... the weather was a bit nicer and things looked somewhat different with a blue sky.

Oh, and there are a LOT of photos on this post, so be sure to scroll through the pages (I think there are 5 or so.)

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Photos

Tram to the top
(I did walk, for the record!)

Ugh. Can´t get away from him!
(I´m guessing my mother is ordering tickets as we speak :)

Cherry Coke!
$4 a can... what a crime!

The one museum I did want to see!
Okay, so there were two museums I wanted to see. One was the Mini Bottle Gallery in Oslo, a collection of thousands of nip bottles. The other way the Lepramuseet, the leprosy museum in Bergen, where this picture was taken. Closed for season. It´s a shame... I think there would have been some good photos, Molly :)

More crabs...
Sue, I took these for you.

Drying fish...
I tried some of this in Iceland. Not chewy, per se, but extremely difficult to chew.

Comments

[Birdy]

Ha, ha just got...
Ha, ha, I laughed out loud we just got Toby Keith tickets for November at MGM Foxwoods....love you pictures and I know it takes so long to "title" them but really pretty good and funny Boo-Boo.....go wash your hair...okay?