Sunday, July 18, 2010

More Bergen

Our second day in Bergen was rainy, and we happened to see that there was a free organ concert at the cathedral, it seemed like a good idea to stay inside, and the concert was great, classical stuff, not modern like what we heard in Hallgrimskirkja in Reykjavik.  Afterwards we did some walking, walked through the courtyard of the Leprosy Museum, but there didn't seem to be much inside so we didn't go in.  We continued our hunt for wine in several grocery stores, which we never did find.  I don't know where Norwegians buy wine and liquor, stores sell beer and only until 8:00pm. We also got on the free city circle bus, it just travels  in a big loop through the city, to encourage people to park their cars instead of adding to the traffic by driving in the city proper.  It took about an hour, and it was nice to just sit and watch the rain through the window...We did have an umbrella, courtesy of the hotel, a big red one, but it was so wide other pedestrians kept walking into it and poking themselves.  And then giving me a dirty look, like it was my fault...There is a large, shallow lake in a park by the train station, we walked around it and watched the other tourists, mostly Italians from a cruise ship that was docked.  Also lots of teenagers just hangin'.At the top of the hill in this picture you can see where the Floibanen ends up, the big white building is the restaurant on the plaza up there.

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