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Bergen's Bryggen (wharf)
Bryggen, in Bergen, Norway, is a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage site. Look closely and you’ll see that each building is tipping in a slightly different way. Some of the buildings in this area are hundreds of years old. Most have burned down once or more over the years and then been rebuilt in basically the original style. Today’s photo shows just three of the buildings, but there are actually more than a dozen lined up in a row like this.
Nærøyfjord
I hope I can get back to Norway some day.
Bergen from Mount Floyen
Bergen gets more than 200 days of precipitation a year (sometimes over 250), but the two days I was there were beautiful. Today’s photo is from Mount Floyen. You can walk there, but I didn’t have enough time so I took the funicular up the mountain for this view.
View with Holmenkollen Park Hotel Rica at my back
If you ever go to Holmenkollbakken (Oslo’s famous ski jump), be sure to wander around the neighborhood as well. You don’t want to miss Holmenkollen Park Hotel Rica (photos coming soon) or the views from there (shown above).
Most scenic train line in the world?
Today we have another peek out the moving-train window while I was doing “Norway in a Nutshell” last month.
View from the Bergen Railway Line doing "Norway in a Nutshell"
Before getting to the fjords (going into actually) or the Flåm Railway when experiencing “Norway in a Nutshell” you get to ride on the Bergen Railway Line which features views such as the above. The scenery is always changing on this train from Oslo to Bergen. Sometimes you’ll see farms, wildflowers, waterfalls, cute Norwegian houses, lakes, fjords, glaciers, rivers, or forests. You never know, but it’s pretty much all good. From Bergen to Oslo getting a window seat on the left side of the train is probably best.