Day 10: to Bergen Norway

This is the one leg of the trip that I have been most excited about . . . heading to Bergen, Norway which is considered the 'base' for most fjords tours. The train ride from Oslo to Bergen is suppose to be one of the most beautiful according to most travel books . . . well, they were right on target! A few shots through the train window . . .

Just beautiful and did I mention the weather is so cold compared to Texas . . . I am so loving wearing long sleeves and a jacket in the middle of July! Yes, that is snow in the photo above . . . it was part of a glacier . . . can't recall the name but the cold, brisk air was great.

The train ride can be summed up as waterfalls, glaciers, snow, rocks, valleys, fjords, very few cars; just amazingly beautiful and breath taking.

We finally arrived in Bergen a small harbor town; picturesque . . . can't wait to explore more tomorrow!

And my complaint of the day . . . we arrived at our hotel at 6:30pm only to be told the room was not clean and ready yet . . . they did have a higher grade room available be we only booked a lower category room so they could not give us those rooms. We were told to come back in 30-60 minutes and it should be ready. Now, I know this is Europe but if the clean room was not booked by 6:30pm then it more than likely was not going to be booked that night and management should have stepped up and given us a room that was ready . . . I mean it was over 3 hours after the published check-in time. We were hungry so headed here for dinner. YUMMY! We gave the hotel 2 hours and our room was ready when we returned . . . still was angry but said nothing, but I am so going to fill out a customer comment card.