It was a fairly relaxed day as we slept well on the boat last night, got up and had breakfast, then cleaned out our cabin by 10 am. After that we sat and watched the shoreline go by.
It was a bit of a cloudy day, though it didn’t rain. Along the way down the rocky coast of Norway are many small towns and villages. The houses are built very close to the water, and almost every one has a boat house. There is not much sign of industry, though I saw at least one fish farm, and as you get closer to Bergen there are more and more industrial structures, including what looked like at least one oil tanker terminal.
Since lunch was 320 kroner apiece we ate our sandwiches instead, and had pizza in the airport in Bergen instead for only 108 kroner for us both. Quite a difference in price!
Our luggage was amongst the first off the boat, and we got on the first bus to the airport. We had a ticket, though they never checked, so we aren’t sure if they just counted bodies, or assume that old tourists are honest.
There isn’t much room to wait in the international side at the Bergen airport. We did get a seat in the restaurant area where we waited until they opened the waiting area. However it wouldn’t have had more than about 20 seats in it.
We caught the train at Copenhagen airport. We weren’t quite sure where to get off — at first they only announced the stations in Danish only, but when we got to the main station it was obvious, and they announced it in many languages. We sat across from a Swedish family that were on their way to Florida. As there was a rail strike in Sweden they had to fly to Copenhagen to catch their plane, so had to stay overnight in a hotel.
The Cabinn City hotel is interesting — cheap though for central city accomodations — as the room has a built in single bed, a mattress under the bed on the floor that pulls out, and a third bunk bed up high. It was very hot up there. Originally we didn’t see the matttess on the floor, so were planning to take the mattress off the bunk as it would be far too hot to sleep up there However it’s now cooling off some as we have the window open.
We are not far from Tivoli amusment park. There is a very tall ride that we can see out the window. It looks like a crane, but there is an amusment ride that swings around it and rises to the top. It is very high, as it is a long ways above us and we are on the fifth floor. It would not be a fun ride if you were afraid of heights.