Euro 2009

The beautiful journey from Oslo to Bergen is a must done by train. It takes about 7 hours but it is worth every bit of it.. passing through towns such as geilo and finse, this pictureque travel is worth the time. Glaciers, countryside nad long rushing rivers, challenging the best of rafters to tame it. The feeling of my first minutes in Bergen aside from the rain was... i am really in norway now. Bergen is so beautiful, nestled amongst the mountains and fjord at one end... this place is so alive but still has a small town feel about it. The people here are really friendly and they make you feel comfortable... I stayed in a hostel YMCA for the first 2 nights.. met some couchsurfers in town during the week and inturn stayed with one of them Jermyn for 2 days which was fantastic.. Jermyn is from the philippines and has lived in bergen for 4 years. He works for a shipping organisation which obviously is big in norways. I was lucky enough to spend time with him for a few days, we hung out and went to a lake for lunch on the only good day in bergen haha... Seems it rains about 270 days a year... The city itself is rather compact and the outer suburbs spread around to little villages on the outer of teh city... Amongst pretty fjords and islands... I had the chance to meet a number of people such as Tash from russia, who we spent th day walking the streets of Bergen in the rain but had fun and enjoyed fantastic sushi that night, home made... Roger, Tine, Marcos, and heaps others... but spent most of my time with jermyn and Roger. Roger was the only real norwegian who took me to his salmon farm in the fjords, where we fished with david a latvian couchsurfer host. It turned out to be an awesome experience, something you don;t get to do everyday... To sum it all up... bergen is on my hit list for another big journey and then to travel north of norways... This concluded my travels in norways before i headed south east toward gothenburg via Oslo again.