Located on the west coast of Norway, BERGEN is the jumping off place for the trip up north to the land of the midnight sun. It's the country's second largest city, after Oslo. We leave Bergen on Tuesday afternoon. If the ship has Internet connections, I’ll post photos as we go along. This isn't exactly a cruise ship. It takes mail, freight and passengers to all the little villages along the way, so I'm not expecting the Las Vegas shows and 24-hour entertainment. The ship is known in Bergen as "The Bus."After we get up past the Arctic Circle we'll see the sun all day and all night, so I won't expect to get sunsets, maybe just near sunsets. .In Bergen we're staying in a wonderful old hotel, the Marin. It's in the building in the middle of the photograph above. We are on the sixth floor with a wonderful view of the harbor. This is one of the earliest settlements in Europe. The church was built more than nine-hundred years ago, and the village was very old even then.
Mariakirken, finished in 1169, is the oldest church in the city.
The big ugly yacht, bigger and uglier when you see it up close, is owned by an obscenely rich Russian oligarch, a guy who had nothing before 1991. He and Bernard Madoff are poster boys for capitalism gone wrong, capitalism with no moral underpinnings.
Located on the west coast of Norway, BERGEN is the jumping off place for the trip up north to the land of the midnight sun. It's the country's second largest city, after Oslo. We leave Bergen on Tuesday afternoon. If the ship has Internet connections, I’ll post photos as we go along. This isn't exactly a cruise ship. It takes mail, freight and passengers to all the little villages along the way, so I'm not expecting the Las Vegas shows and 24-hour entertainment. The ship is known in Bergen as "The Bus."After we get up past the Arctic Circle we'll see the sun all day and all night, so I won't expect to get sunsets, maybe just near sunsets. .In Bergen we're staying in a wonderful old hotel, the Marin. It's in the building in the middle of the photograph above. We are on the sixth floor with a wonderful view of the harbor. This is one of the earliest settlements in Europe. The church was built more than nine-hundred years ago, and the village was very old even then.
Mariakirken, finished in 1169, is the oldest church in the city.
The big ugly yacht, bigger and uglier when you see it up close, is owned by an obscenely rich Russian oligarch, a guy who had nothing before 1991. He and Bernard Madoff are poster boys for capitalism gone wrong, capitalism with no moral underpinnings.
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