Things to do in Norway
Sykkeltur
Within 24 hours of finishing my networking midterm in Princeton, I was feasting on French cheese at a cabin belonging to a local band overlooking a lake just outside of Bergen, watching a pair of horses frolic on the ice.
Bike rides in the sun and fresh air turn out to be an effective way to stave off jet lag.
Too effective, actually. I went to bed at 10 pm and woke up at noon the next day.
Norway in a Nutshell
This is on the list of tourist things to do in Bergen. You take the train into the mountains, then another train ("one of the the steepest normal-gauge trains in the world") out of the mountains, then a boat down some fjords (branches off of Sognefjord, "Norway's longest and deepest fjord"), and then a bus back (through "the second-longest road tunnel in Norway").
Undredal, "wonder valley".
Can you find the farm?
Fjords are really big.
More farm.
Ski
Let me get this straight: you pay lots of money to strap some boards to your feet and throw yourself down the side of an icy mountain. And this is supposed to be fun?
Skiing, like driving, is one of those things that I never learned how to do when I was a kid.
It took an hour to get down the easiest slope the first time. The third time, it took five minutes and I only fell once. At the end of the day, I managed to go down twice without falling, twice passing a beginner class of Norwegian teenagers. Jan was shocked that there were so many Norwegians who hadn't learned to ski yet by that age.
The day's casualties include a bruised tailbone and a mildly sprained hand.
Nice views, though.
