So I’m still going through the pictures from our recent trip to Germany, Poland, and Norway. This time, my camera seemed to focus on architectural elements. I’ve always had a very strong affinity for all things gothic, so here are some of the better elements – with some baroque mixed in.
Tag: Norway
All Ashore in Bergen
Well, the cruise has ended in Bergen, Norway and with it the fine weather. I’d wanted to walk around downtown, but it’s a cold driving rain and very stiff breezes, so we fled back to the hotel so that I could dry out my pants with the hair dryer. This evening, we’re keeping alive our…
In Trondheim
Today was a city tour of Trondheim, Norway’s third largest city and home of the ‘national cathedral,’ the Nidarosdomen, built on the burial site of Norway’s patron saint, Saint Olav (King Olav Haraldsson, canonized in 1031). King Olav was quite the christian zealot – apparently an adherent of ‘my way or the highway.’ The Norwegians…
Norway Continued…
On Monday, we stopped in Harstad and toured the area by bus and met up with the ship at Sortland. (We were told that ‘Sortland’ means ‘black land’ in Norwegian, but the town is trying to find a modern claim to fame, so the town council encouraged everybody to paint all the buildings blue. Today…
Grüßens aus Deutschland und Norge!
So I’ve finally managed to get an Internet connection, but it’s slow, slow, slow. We’re in the middle of our Germany-Norway trip. Last week was driving 1,500 kilometers around Germany and Poland…now we’re on the week-long cruise down the coast of Norway. This past day-and-a-half has presented some pretty bleak landscape – definitely what…
The Runcible Existentialist 