Bergen. The weather was bad for most of the day fulfilling the prognoses that Bergen has 260 days of rain during a year. Bahh! Guess we were lucky as we had times where it was not raining and in the evening the sun came out for the rest of the day. Lucky us!

The fishmarket was nice. All kinds of sea dwellers and tourists. Brygge, the ancient city center that was completely burned down and rebuild had many souvenir shops and much more tourists from all countries of the world - at least it appeared to be so. I discovered some great street art - see for yourself .

After a massive city tour we came to rest in a cute little cafe called Vagen feevare where I had access to the internet. Happy to upload my notes to my blog I had to find out that they were gone. Shitty windows trashed my file while saving it to my SD card on my eee. Next holiday I will put Tiger on it. So I used the free inet access to skype my friends at home. Flip told me that he has added me to his blogroll which gives me a hugh boost googlewise. Thanks for that, man. Now that I have rewritten all my report it is half past 11 already and the sky is as blue as if it is just about 6 in the evening. Let’s see if the others are up for another round of cards.

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The first bed that meet my requirements, but sleeping with an open window and a small river right beside the house made us visit the toilet pretty often. At 4 a clock we reached Bergen, after traveling by two fairies and passing another spectacular waterfall. The road was narrow and with lots of serpentines, so it took more time than we expected for 60km.

At around 4pm we reached Nesttuns Grimme Camping and got a cabin right away. Although weather was not that good, we took the track on the other roadside of the camping site and went up winding path along an ancient railway. On our decend we found a tunnel and with a vivid memory of “Stand by me” on our minds, we stepped in it and took some pictures. Turned out that it was not that long.

In the opposite direction from our camping ground was nothing special, but a nice place where some big rocks reached into the fjord. The rest of the evening we spent playing cards, completley forgetting about the time and as it never gets really dark during the summer month we went to bed very late…or early.

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Completley crushed! Sofas are not made for sleeping, I can tell you. Maybe the wine had something to do with it…. nahhh, not really. I got up at 5.pm and took my camerabag and started a little exploration along the fjord. A reindeer family that saw me coming, ran back into the deeper woods.

Breakfast and we hit the road towards Bergen. Along the route E134 we passed snowfields of Kaldvassrusta, twin waterfalls and and found a cabin at Hildal camping, at the beginning of the Sorfjorden which is the “fruitbasket” of Nowegen. Because of its north/south alignment the temperatures are mild which bestow the region alot of excotic fruits.

A little chat with the concierge at Hildal camping revealed that we can’t get near the big waterfall on the oposite site, but there is another one right behind the camping site. We took both trips and she was right. We only got a little bit closer to the big one, and the path leading there was a little adaventure. Climping rocks, passing sheeps and lofty, old bridges. In the end, other spot was much nicer. A bridge spanning right over the big spot. I climed directly near it, hence crawling over slippy stones with a 15m somthing drop and tons of water. Nadine was not amused, but the pictures will be good.

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Nadine and me took the sofa, in our cabin, which turned out to be not build for a person of my figure. Pain! I got up early and decided to swim a couple of rounds in the pool. Anette joined me and after a enjoyable brakfast buffet, we tried our luck at the harbor again. This time we were allowed to board, but there was a problem with some winch and so we left Hirtshals one our after schedule.

At 5pm we reached Slarvik, and had to find a place for the night. At Gasodden we found a lovely camping site with a free cabin for us, right by the xyz fjord. After verstauen our luggage, Koeby and I put on our swimming short - still wet from the pool, yeaaak! - and went to a samll beach nearby. The water was way too cold for swimming, but I none the less managed to get we all over. Plenty of sun and no clouds, temperatures at about 20 degree celcius renered the bad weather forecast (I checked on the net) completly wrong.

Back at our cabin, we drank some wine and talked for a while. In the bed, later, I was just about to fall asleep, as the damn thing broke, and I had to take the sofa once again, anxious that it will completly crash and me crashing Nadine right below me. She got the lower deck, ay!

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This holiday we went north. Norwegen, to be exact. Together with Anette and Koeby, we started at 6am. We had to reach the fairy from Hirtshals, that should take us to Slarvik. At 5pm we arrived at Hirthals harbor. We were fast and the Colorline Fairy was still two hours away. We went to the check in where a very kind norwegian steward welcomed us with the words: “I`ve got bad news for you.” when he saw our booking. The fairy was canceld due to rough sea. And indeed, as we drove through Denmark - what Nice we all completly forgot on our planning - the weather got worth the further we went north and the wind picked up every km me drove. We got a room for the four of us in a nearby Dan Center. After a trip to the beach, right behind our cabin, where the wind was so strong that flying sand was hard to bare. I had to use the fresh trashbag to build a protection for my Nikon. I once lost my first digital camera - a Canon Ixus on the beach and was quite anxious, but the szenario was looking too good to not try it.

Later that evening, we went to the restaurant inside the center and had a nice dinner, that made our day complete.

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