Category: Europe 2015

We get up to check out another new breakfast. This is probably the best spread we have had so far. Fried, scrambled, and hard boiled eggs, quiche, potatoes, bacon, many types of cheeses, salmon, smoked mackerel, cold cuts, different bread choices, granola, yogurt, and more. We have our fill and then head out to start […]

Today is all about the Fjords. Except for the short walk, this morning. We have breakfast around 0830. It is a simple but good breakfast. No fish or cooked items. We have hard boiled eggs, granola with yogurt ( which I am beginning to like), and always there are cold cuts, cheers, and bread. When […]

Yesterday, we saw a sign that breakfast didn’t start until 0800 on Saturdays and since our boat leaves at 0800, that was not going to work for us. Last night, I asked at the desk if we could perhaps get a take away breakfast. She told us do not worry just come down at 0700 […]

We get to sleep in today as we decided to take a guided walking tour of the wharf district known as Bryggen. It does not start until 1100 so we are in no rush today. Having a day like this every once in a while is a very good thing on a long journey like […]

After a pretty good nights sleep, we wake up before our alarm. Our bus is not until 1015, a purposefully planned time, so we could sleep in a little. Another nice breakfast at our bacon less motel. They have quiche, cold cuts, bread, hard boiled eggs, granola, yogurt, etc. not as lavish as the last […]

We get up at 0600 to have breakfast. No bacon here, something about red meat causing 15 % of the gas emissions in the world. So now we have done a small bacon less part to save the world. By the time we eat, shower, and walk to the ferry terminal, it is 0740. We […]

Today we had a long train ride. We start in Oslo with a Bus to Drammen because the tracks are being worked on. In Drammen, we get on the train to Stavanger, which will be a 7 hour and 19 minute ride. We actually like the trains. We can catch up on journals and our […]

We arrived at 2125 (9:25 P.M.) last night in Oslo. The train ride went fast and we saw the Swedish countryside with a lot of farms. They cover their hay in white plastic in the fields and Carol says they look like big marshmellows. I agree with that. when we cross the Norwegian border, we […]

Our ship arrived late to Stockholm because of high winds and fog. We still had to get up at 0700 to eat and shower in time to leave. When we finished the tough job of packing, they make the announcement that we can leave the ship. Crowded stairwells make us happy that we only have […]