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Norway is amazing! I went to Norway for a couple of weeks to visit my friend
Anne Marthe. That's a picture of her on the Aker-Brygge, a port and
shopping area in Oslo near the fortress.
Anne
Marthe showed me the sights of Oslo and invited me to stay at her parents'
farm in Sandefjord. There we went walking at the mouth of the fjord.
Sandefjord is also a famous whaling city, with a very cool whaling
monument/fountain and interesting whaling museum.
For
two days I left Oslo and Anne Marthe and took a train to Bergen. The scenery
was amazing. We were so high up that there were no trees and everything had
such a strange green tint to it. I took the Flam railway down through the
mountain valley and past waterfalls to the Sognefjord. There I rode the
ferry, which also doubled as a mail ferry (that's what that crown represents
in the middle of the flag).
Bergen
was great too! As you can tell by my pictures it was sunny. Bergen is like
Seattle - it is known for it's heavy rainfall. Those colorfully painted
buildings on Bryggen Street date from medieval times. Right down the street
from those buildings is a large fish market selling all sorts of fish and
seafood. The smell was so overpowering, and I have never seen so much fish! |