Sadly, I had to leave the lovely lodging with the porch over the fjord. I really didn’t want to. The drive today was to the city of Lillehammer, of both Olympic and Netflix fame. Along the way I was able to see several more stave churches with the first stop being the Borgund stave church….

Started my slow loop back to Oslo by leaving Bergen and heading north. The first stop of today was Tvindefossen, an easy to get to waterfall. Located at a camp site, yes you can camp at this waterfall, Tvindefossen was a bit low on flow and I suspect is more impressive in the spring. Still,…

It’s the short, short version today. Some days you see amazing sights and some days your choices are a bust. Today was the second one. My first stop was the town/area called Hellesoy. I had been assured that this would be an all day trip. It took about an hour. The drive was through the…

Another fun day of walking the streets of Bergen. My main stop of the day was the Bergen Aquarium. Thankfully it did not open till 10am so I got to sleep a bit later today! The Bergen aquarium is similar in interior size to the Mystic aquarium in Connecticut. In their outside space they have…

Finally a day with no driving. I spent the whole day walking through the city of Bergen. The morning was around the historic area know as Bryggen, a series of historic buildings that haven’t burned down recently and used to be trading houses. Currently, the area is shops and restaurants geared towards tourists. After a…

Today was a lot of driving. My main goal today was to do as much of a suggested waterfall route that I could. Norway has a large number of waterfalls and some of the more impressive ones are just east of the town of Bergen so it seemed like a good idea to run to…

My first nights’s lodging had a pretty simple breakfast where I got to try the brown cheese that the Norwegians seem very enthusiastic about. Good stuff and I will definitely have it again! Thankfully breakfast was all you can eat because that was all I got to eat until dinner, more on that later. My…

After a few years, I am getting to experience an entirely new country! There were a couple of places that were in the running but Norway won out simply because I have never been here before. Little bit of a trek to get here with a connecting flight in Iceland. Their advertisements on the plane…

With country borders closing due to the latest COVID variant I decided an in country trip was in order. It’s been a few years since I last traveled to Williamsburg, VA so I thought a new trip was in order. It’s about a 500 mile drive the way I came down and I even got…

I made the journey to my final lodging before flying back. I had to cross all of Ireland to get closer to the airport for my flight out tomorrow. I had looked for something to see ahead of time and decided on trying to see Newgrange north of Dublin. It was something I had not…