So the land of my ancestors, well some of them anyways:) Bergen was wonderful beautiful town, colorful houses and a great layout. Oslo I liked less but then I was only there for a tiny bit and not too keen on wandering around the streets at night when I arrived.
So my flight from London to Bergen was good-seeing London at night all lit up was amazing especially all the glowing soccer fields everywhere. When I arrived to Bergen airport I called the number for my couchsurfing.com contact but no answer so left a message to say I was on my way. I was to meet him at the tourist center in the center of Bergen. So I got there mind you it is 12:30am on a Thursday, but I was not alone as all of Bergens' bar scene had emptied out and were stumbling home while I made 2 more phone calls and waited to see if anyone showed. Sitting in front of a dark tourist center waiting to see if my contact arrives I look to my right and see a Louisiana cajun restaurant which deffinitely reassured me that everything was going to work out. A nice cab driver showed me how to get to his address so walked a few blocks but when I got to his building of course his name was not listed...needless to say I found a "budget" hotel around 2am...ahhh good times but it was not raining and Bergen at night was beautiful.
Next morning I found a YMCA Hostel which was fantastic and met a nice old French man who shared his crab,lobster, salmon and smoked whale with me as a late lunch. And as I could not speak French and he could not speak English he drug me out in search of a "libreria" which of course turned out to be a bookstore not a Bibliotec...so we walked and walked in the rain all over Bergen to buy a French English dictionary;). We finally found it which by that time I was cold and soggy. On our way back to the hostel we passed by an outdoor bar with a guy playing the guitar and singing--Neil Young's Harvest Moon in Norwegian!!
That night I went out to explore the nightlife with an Australian, an Israli and a German--we went to the Garage a bar where Nirvana played once and then to another bar with a great D.J. and danced the rest of the night.
In the morning ( way too early) I caught the train to Oslo...7hrs later I found my Oslo Hostel. The Norwegian country is wonderful, Aspen, birch, pine trees everywhere with tons of lakes and inlets and of course my favorite the wood planked cabins painted dark with a light color trim everywhere. I am coming back for sure.
In the morning before my early afternoon flight I went to see the Kon Tiki museum and the Viking Ship Muesum!!! They were great! It was sooo cool to be right in front of the original Kon Tiki when I had bulit a smaller version in High School!!!
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