Today is the last day of a 12 day cruise for many of the passengers and the last day of a two trip cruise for many staff. So it's filled with nostalgia. The nature/culture expedition guide Sofia created a video of the 12 day trip - I bought a copy. We had to check out of our cabins by 10 am, so the common areas of the ship are filled with people in a very different way. Mom says she hasn't been surrounded with this many adults napping in many years!
As the crow flies, it's just over 200 miles from Bergen west to the Shetland Islands. During WWII, England wanted to support the Norwegian resistance, so one of the things they did was send supplies and remove people via small fishing boats from Shetland to Bergen. It was dangerous work - sailing at night and in high seas were safest from the Germans - but not exactly safe! This operation was called the Shetland Bus. We learned about this when we visited Shetland, so I was pretty excited to see Bergen for myself.
We arrived in the bright sunshine, which is apparently unusual for Bergen. Everyone was out enjoying the weather. We hauled our stuff across town and up a very steep flight of stairs to our Airbnb, then hauled our tired bodies further to the base of the funnicular.
Bergen is a small harbor with a little bit of flat ground surrounded with steep hills. The funicular starts near the harbor and rises practically straight up to the top of a nearby hill. At the top was a lovely area to watch the sunset, restaurants, trolls, a little library in an old phone booth, a playground - and hiking trails. Meg and I took a fast hike through the pine trees to an amazing lake.
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