Last day in the dramatic fjord country as we leave the beautiful Hotel Ullensvang through the landscape filled with apple, cherry, and plum trees. The sun is shining and we're listening to Grieg. What a brilliant way to start the morning. In the tunnel roundabout again, I just love the artwork affect the blue lights portray. Sighted many communities and farms on the fjord hillside, with the question , how do they get there? Well it's by narrow one lane paths and ...

Fruit and Fish Farms Today's coach ride took us by an avalanche site where they were fixing the road and a construction site where they are building a tunnel along one lane roads. I think we only had three really scary times when we or the other drivers had to back up to outlets so both vehicles could get through. We had two more ferry rides on the fjord to get to our first stop, a working apple farm. This farm has been in the same family since the 1600's, passe...

Today is called "Norway in a Nushell" day. We traveled by coach to ferry and experience the Naeroyfjord, another UNESCO site and the Aurlnd fjords with over 300 of our colleagues from all over. VERY CROWDED! In Flaam, we boarded the Flaam Railway, which took 20 years to construct so we can speed through 20 tunnels, 21 hairs pin turns in less than 50 minutes. The ride was breath taking and we made one stop to view this awesome waterfall and were surprise by a vi...

We started our full day in Bergen by taking a city tour on the bus with Neil as our guide. We were told to fasten our seat belts as its a law that if seat belts are provided, they must be fastened in Norway. We first drove along the oldest street, Akvariet, cobblestone of course, and given city history. Highlights included about the meat market established in the Middle Ages to provide safe meat for consumption. The explosion of a German ship that killed many fro...

We are in Bergen tonight and took a before dinner walk where I met my new friend (see photo). Today was a long day in the bus with breaks due to two ferry rides, but or so worth the trip as we saw more spectacular scenery. We started out at 8am with an hour long ferry ride past the awesome Seven Sisters waterfall and gazing across the fjord was another fantastic waterfall called the suitor. We also sailed by three historic but alas abandoned mountain side farms. ...