Seriously delicious lunch at the place with the lamp shade (Basant): spicy soup and grilled blue cheese.

Textile artwork: woman in the rain.

These are the rest of the Bergen photos. Anna overlooking the city, the lake at night and a couple of pretty decorative things.

We went up the mountain first in the morning, then split up and looked at different things.

Anna and I went to the KODE gallery, which was split between four buildings. There was some fun textile stuff in the first building, including the woman with the umbrella. The second building was contemporary work, a mixture of fun, intriguing and grotesque. We didn’t get to the fourth because the third was full of Edvard Munch. It was really cool looking at a whole body of work and seeing the development of his style. The building also contained works by his mentor so his influence on Munch was also cool to see.

After that we sat in the park for a while and then looked around the wharf and surrounds. Sunny and pleasant.

Returned with the whole group to get delicious Norwegian fast food: fish cakes. Yum.

And then off to the airport in the morning the next day. Stockholm here we come!

The photos just don’t do justice to the looming sides of the mountains all around or the foggy peaks barely visible above.

Besides the views, we can now say that we’ve driven through the longest road tunnel in the world: 24 kilometres. It’s has three open caverns in an attempt to relieve tunnel strain. The blue orbs were certainly odd, so I suppose they had the desired effect, though I don’t think they would have helped with mum’s dislike of any kind of tunnel.