Flam, Norway - August 3, 2018 Flam is exactly as we remember it from our last visit. It's still tiny with only 200 inhabitants - can you imagine living in a remote mountain place with only 200 other people. Last year when we were here in winter, most of the shops were closed and all but one inn was closed for the season. The little museum and thankfully a couple of restaurants were open and happy to see uvisitors. Today, with the cruise ship in port the ...

Alesund, Norway - August 2, 2018 Unlike the fjord villages we have visited so far, Alesund is an actual city with about 400,000 hard-working inhabitants. It's a bustling place. It has hospitals, a university and all the infrastructure commercial, legal, technology and service businesses to support the fishing industry and more. Alesund's fishing port and its fleet is said to be one of Europe's most modern. The city sits on three separate islands on the co...

Gerainger and Helsutt, Norway - August 1, 2018 Hard! Hard! It was hard! The description of the hike to Storseterfossen Waterfall said it was long . . . about 5 miles, steep and often on dirt paths. The hike was classified as a Level 3. Whoa! First, the weather forecast was for a high temp of 58 degrees Fahrenheit and partly cloudy. I'm sorry but lucky for us it was warmer; that was the good news. The bad news was it was more like 80 degrees and every...

Trondheim, July 31, 2018 Wow, Trondheim is a big city. Cool, fashionable and very prosperous. They say the jet stream keeps them warm in winter so living here year round is good. Trondheim is one of the original settlements of Norway. Built on the river, Nidelva, the town is famous for its wooden buildings from the late 1700's, and for the cathedral, Nidaros. Originally built in about 1035 over the grave of King/Saint Olav, today's cathedral complex c...

Bergen & Olden, Norway - July 29 & 30, 2018 I dreamed of seeing Norway in the green. The drive I felt to see it, breathe it and walk it was strong, almost overwhelming. Somehow I knew that the experience would be something one cannot simply conger in the mind or decipher from a picture. I was not wrong. Yesterday was spent in Bergen. What a beautiful little town; it looks like a little village and sounds like it might be a little village but...