So, Bergen. Basically the cutest place I've ever been. And I've spent a lot of time in Switzerland, so that's saying something. (I'm giving it a slight edge over Lausanne because Norwegian is a cuter language than French.) It's got a bunch of mountains around a harbor. It's just darling. I stayed in an adorable hotel on the side of the hill you can see in the picture above. Here's the hotel:
For about $75 a night I had a totally cute attic room with slopey ceilings (that's one of my windows in the roof), a sink, and a fabulous view, plus a ginormous (and cute) breakfast (mmmm...jam...) and umbrellas to loan. Because Bergen, in addition to being outrageously cute, is outrageously rainy. I was there from Wednesday night to Saturday morning and it only kinda rained/kinda snowed on Friday, but sometime in the last year they'd set a city record for consecutive days of rain - I think it was, like, 80 or 100.
The first night I wandered around the harbor taking pictures. Not so shabby, eh?
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BEAUTIFUL photo of the harbor. I loved Bergen, except for the rain. The old portion of the town is particularly cool.
Wowsers, that's a great picture of the harbor!
I'm so jealous you're in Norway. Ah, the land of my people...
I'm back from Norway now, so you can stop being jealous. :) This is my moment-by-moment blog recap.
Adorable indeed - it belongs in a snowglobe.
Or a rain globe, as it were.
ooh. i love this photo of the harbor. i'm not sure if i could handle all that rain, but i'd love to see this town someday.
Have you been to Lucern? Now that place was cute. Which is not to say it beats Bergen, because I haven't been there, but it definitely beats Lausanne.
Hm. Yeah, Luzern was cute, but I haven't been there since, uh...1992, when I was 16 years old, so my memory's a little shaky. I did like it. But the adorableness of Lausanne pretty much killed me. I mean, did you go to the old city by the big old church? With the Tintin store? So cute!
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