Trip: 2024 Jun/Jul: Oslo; Kristiansand; Stavanger; Bergen; Flåm Travel Journal

June/July tripl: Oslo, Kristiansand, Stavanger, Bergen, and Flåm
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Cities, towns, and fjords in southern Norway.

Mount Fløyen

The bit of the North Sea that Bergen is on looks more like a wide river because of the large islands between Bergen and the...

Journeying to Bergen

A little before noon, I boarded a bus in Stavanger for a bus ride to Bergen, Norway. The bus ride was scheduled to take a...

4 MUST Museums

In the title of this entry, “4 MUST Museums,” the all-caps on “must” is not for emphasis. I’m not suggesting that they are must-see museums...

Lysefjord Cruise

As I said in my first post from Oslo, one of the things Norway is most famous for is fjords. I was determined to get...

Arriving in Stavanger

A light rain greeted me as I arrived by train a little past noon in Stavanger from Kristiansand, my previous stop on this Norwegian journey....

The Otra. Kunstsilo.

When I finished lunch this afternoon in Kristiansand, Norway, despite the earlier forecast of rain, the sun shone brightly, with only a few non-threatening clouds...