• The Bergen train station

• The Grand Hotel Terminus, our lodging in Bergen for two nights, is across the street from the train station and just a few blocks from the Bergen harbor and the historic Hanseatic League district.

• Grand Hotel Terminus

• Our room at the Grand Hotel Terminus

• Our room at the Grand Hotel Terminus

• Entry to the cable car to the summit of Ulriken, the tallest mountain near Bergen at 643 m (2210 ft)

• A view of the upper terminal of the cable car

• Ulriken view point

• Ready to board the cable car

• A view of Bergen from Ulriken

• The historic Hanseatic League district is on the right side of the harbor.

• The historic Hanseatic League district

• Bergen harbor

• Bergen city center

• Lille (lake) Lungegårdsvann in the heart of the Bergen city center

• The train station and Grand Hotel Terminus are in the lower left of this photo. The gray, red-roofed building is the library. The building to the upper left from the library is a large indoor shopping mall.

• Bergen harbor. The building just to the right of center is the Hurtigruten (coastal voyage ships) terminal.

• The upper cable car terminal

• We will board this cable car for our ride down the mountain.

• Bergen harbor

• Bryggen, the Hanseatic League district, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site

• Historic Hanseatic League buildings

• Bryggens Museum

• Bryggens Museum

• Bryggens Museum

• Archaeological excavation at the Bryggens Museum of the earliest bits of Bergen, 1050-1500.

• Foundations of the original wooden tenements dating to the 12th century.

• Foundations of the original wooden tenements dating to the 12th century.

• The Bryggens Museum was exhibiting the contemporary art of Karl Erik Harr which focussed on Norwegian square-rigged sailing ships.

• 'Approach to Stamsund', Karl Erik Harr, 1986

• The Bryggens Museum was also exhibiting a history of shoemaking in Norway.

• The 'Shoe Store'

• Shoes to try

• Entrance to the historic buildings of the Hanseatic Museum

• Historic Hanseatic buildings

• Interior of one of the historic Hanseatic buildings

• A 100 year old cod. Hanging cod was thought to bring good fishing luck.

• Hand washing station in one of the historic Hanseatic buildings

• Preparation stations in the kitchen in one of the historic Hanseatic buildings

• Kitchen detail

• Oven

• Merchant's quarters

• Sleeping cupboards for the workmen. They slept in these beds in shifts.

• Sleeping cupboard detail

• Sleeping cupboard detail

• Merchant workspace

• A cylindrical trunk designed so that it could be transported by rolling

• Trunk

• An example of the decorative walls and another handwashing station

• Sleeping quarters

• An early map of the Bergen harbor

• Another rolling chest

• A lane in the historic district

• Wooden sculpture of a cod in the historic district

• Wooden sculpture of a cod in the historic district

• Wooden sculpture of a cod in the historic district

• Hanseatic Museum

• The hills rise steeply from the harbor level in Bergen

• Bergen park scene

• Rhododendrons were in bloom

• We boarded the Hurtigruten ship M/S Nordlys ('Northern Lights') for a two-night cruise up the west coast of Norway from Bergen to Trondheim.

• A view from the M/S Nordlys toward the Bergen harbor as we departed

• An 11 PM sunset from the M/S Nordlys

• En route from Bergen to Ålesund

• En route from Bergen to Ålesund

• En route from Bergen to Ålesund

• The M/S Nordlys stopped in Ålesund so that we had time to go for a short walk.

• Ålesund harbor

• Ålesund

• Ålesund

• Ålesund is located at a latitude of 62 degrees north.

• Ålesund

• Ålesund

• Ålesund

• Ålesund

• Ålesund

• From Ålesund, the M/S Nordlys cruised the Geirangerfjord to Geiranger

• En route to Geiranger

• En route to Geiranger

• Passing Stranda while en route to Geiranger. The large building was a furniture factory that now makes frozen pizzas.

• North Cape Minerals where they mine a very dense mineral used in North Sea oil platforms

• En route to Geiranger

• En route to Geiranger

• En route to Geiranger

• The Seven Sisters

• The Seven Sisters

• Arriving in Geiranger

• The road out of Geiranger

• These people left the Hurtigruten to take a road route to Molde, where they would rejoin us on board.

• Returning from Geiranger to Ålesund

• The Seven Sisters

• The Seven Sisters

• The Seven Sisters

• The Bachelor, across the Geirangerfjord from the Seven Sisters

• A kayak shows the scale of the Bachelor waterfall

• On the return to Ålesund

• On the return to Ålesund

• On the return to Ålesund

• On the return to Ålesund

• Ålesund in the afternoon

• The Ålesund waterfront

• The Ålesund waterfront

• Shrimp for sale

• En route from Ålesund to Molde

• En route from Ålesund to Molde

• A hotel in Molde

• Early morning en route to Trondheim

• We disembarked the M/S Nordlys in Trondheim.

• The Clarion C.H. Grand Olav Hotel, where we stayed in Trondheim

• ... and served in Norway.

• Church of Our Lady

• Church of Our Lady

• Church of Our Lady window detail

• Trondheim city center

• Olav Tryggvason Column

• Tryggvason was the Viking King who founded Trondheim in 997 A.D.

• Nidaros Cathedral, the National Sanctuary of Norway, 1070-1300

• Nidaros Cathedral

• Nidaros Cathedral

• Nidaros Cathedral

• Nidaros Cathedral detail

• Nidaros Cathedral side entrance

• Nidaros Cathedral side entrance

• Nidaros Cathedral detail

• Nidaros Cathedral side entrance detail

• Trondheim Art Museum

• Kristiansten Fortress overlooking Trondheim

• Kristiansten Fortress

• Along the Nidelva River

• The Nidelva River flows through Trondheim

• The Old Town Bridge over the Nidelva River, built in 1681 to provide access from the city to Kristiansten Fortress

• Old Town Bridge detail

• A view up the Nidelva River toward the University of Trondheim

• A harbor on the Nidelva River

• Nidelva River

• A restoration project underway

• Looking over Trondheim from the path to Kristiansten Fortress

• Kristiansten Fortress

• Kristiansten Fortress barracks and stockade

• On the Kristiansten Fortress grounds

• Lilacs were in full bloom

• Kristiansten Fortress

• A view of the Cathedral from the Fortreess

• A view of the river from the Fortress

• Cathredral

• A walk along the Nidelva River

• The Cathedral and grounds across the river

• Norway is so expensive that they need spare banks.

• In a designer chair at Gardermoen Airport awaiting our flight