{"id":1326,"date":"2013-08-22T10:40:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-22T17:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2013\/08\/22\/bergen-norway\/"},"modified":"2015-01-01T12:51:13","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T20:51:13","slug":"bergen-norway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2013\/08\/22\/bergen-norway\/","title":{"rendered":"Bergen, Norway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our first actual stop on the cruise to the Norwegian fjords, after a full day at sea, was in Bergen. What a beautiful city it is! When we arrived, we took a tour of part of the city; our &#8220;ride&#8221; was really cute. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Bergen-252C-Norway.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Bergen-252C-Norway-300x225.jpg?resize=320%2C240\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">Once we&#8217;d finished this overview of the town&#8217;s sights, we walked around quite a bit and then took a ride in the funicular to enjoy the scenic view from atop the mountain. This is the funicular route; it is a very efficient way for residents of the city to get from bottom to top or vice versa.<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Funicular-253ABergen-252C-Norway.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Funicular-253ABergen-252C-Norway-225x300.jpg?resize=240%2C320\" width=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">The view was well worth the ride! This is just a portion of what we were able to see.<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Bergen-252C-Norway-2.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Bergen-252C-Norway-2-300x225.jpg?resize=320%2C240\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">When we arrived back at the ship later that day, we were greeted by one of the towel &#8220;animals&#8221; that the cabin steward prepared for us each evening.<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Towel-critter-253AEurodam.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Towel-critter-253AEurodam-225x300.jpg?resize=240%2C320\" width=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">To be continued! \ud83d\ude42<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our first actual stop on the cruise to the Norwegian fjords, after a full day at sea, was in Bergen. What a beautiful city it is! When we arrived, we took a tour of part of the city; our &#8220;ride&#8221; was really cute. \ud83d\ude42 Once we&#8217;d finished this overview of the town&#8217;s sights, we walked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[303],"tags":[224],"class_list":{"0":"post-1326","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-family","8":"tag-travel","9":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Bergen-252C-Norway.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yzuO-lo","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1324,"url":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2013\/08\/24\/flam-norway\/","url_meta":{"origin":1326,"position":0},"title":"Fl\u00e5m, Norway","author":"Sandy","date":"August 24, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Following our day in Bergen, our next stop was in Fl\u00e5m. 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