{"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":"

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 “ride” was really cute. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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Once we’d finished this overview of the town’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
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The view was well worth the ride! This is just a portion of what we were able to see.<\/div>\n
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When we arrived back at the ship later that day, we were greeted by one of the towel “animals” that the cabin steward prepared for us each evening.<\/div>\n
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To be continued! \ud83d\ude42<\/div>\n
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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 “ride” was really cute. \ud83d\ude42 Once we’d finished this overview of the town’s sights, we walked […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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}},"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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