June 21, 2016
We're off again! We had a lovely but very quiet trip to French Polynesia this winter, and as we were on a small French boat for most of the trip, I did not write a blog. Each day was wonderful, but very much the same as previous ones (except for which island we were on) snorkeling, swimming, and dining on French food far too well. We visited Tahiti, Huahine, BoraBora, Rangiroa, Fakarava, Tahaa, and Moorea.
So now, following celebration of our 52nd wedding anniversary on June 27, we will depart on June 28 on a National Geographic "Expedition" to Norway and Iceland.
We begin in Oslo, and after touring that city, we will take the Røros Railway to the World Heritage town of Røros and then to Trondheim at the exit of the Nidelva River into the Norwegian Sea, between Norway and Iceland. After touring Trondheim, we will take the Rauma Railway up the Rauma River Canyon, finishing our trip by road along the "notorious" Trollstigen (the Trolls Footpath) winding through the mountains with 11 supposedly very scary hairpin turns. We will stay overnight in Geiranger, and then take a ferry on the UNESCO World Heritage Geirangerfjord. We'll then travel by road to Sognefjord and Nordfjord, and will travel by boat on the Sognefjord. We'll start our trip to Bergen on another train, the Flåm Railway which rises 2837 feet in one hour going through 20 tunnels before descending to the city of Bergen. We'll tour Bergen and visit the town of Troldhaugen, the home of Edvard Grieg, where we're scheduled to attend a recital of Grieg's piano music. We'll then fly from Bergen to Reykjavik, Iceland (via Oslo). Activities in Iceland will include visits to geothermal steam baths, a geothermal power plant, glaciers, waterfalls, and geysers, as well as archaeological sites dating back to the 9th century. We fly home from Iceland on July 14.
We'll be pretty far north. The high temperature in Trondheim as I write this was 53 degrees F. Sunrise is about 3 AM and sunset around midnight, with no real night--the hours from midnight to 3 AM are listed as "twilight". Of course the reverse would be true in December, which is one of the reasons we're going in June/July. I'm trying to imagine only 3 hours of daylight. We had similar long days when we were in central Alaska a few years ago, and despite blackout curtains on the windows, sleeping was not ordinary.
So the first travel post will be from Oslo. I look forward to sharing this adventure!
Victor
We're off again! We had a lovely but very quiet trip to French Polynesia this winter, and as we were on a small French boat for most of the trip, I did not write a blog. Each day was wonderful, but very much the same as previous ones (except for which island we were on) snorkeling, swimming, and dining on French food far too well. We visited Tahiti, Huahine, BoraBora, Rangiroa, Fakarava, Tahaa, and Moorea.
So now, following celebration of our 52nd wedding anniversary on June 27, we will depart on June 28 on a National Geographic "Expedition" to Norway and Iceland.
We begin in Oslo, and after touring that city, we will take the Røros Railway to the World Heritage town of Røros and then to Trondheim at the exit of the Nidelva River into the Norwegian Sea, between Norway and Iceland. After touring Trondheim, we will take the Rauma Railway up the Rauma River Canyon, finishing our trip by road along the "notorious" Trollstigen (the Trolls Footpath) winding through the mountains with 11 supposedly very scary hairpin turns. We will stay overnight in Geiranger, and then take a ferry on the UNESCO World Heritage Geirangerfjord. We'll then travel by road to Sognefjord and Nordfjord, and will travel by boat on the Sognefjord. We'll start our trip to Bergen on another train, the Flåm Railway which rises 2837 feet in one hour going through 20 tunnels before descending to the city of Bergen. We'll tour Bergen and visit the town of Troldhaugen, the home of Edvard Grieg, where we're scheduled to attend a recital of Grieg's piano music. We'll then fly from Bergen to Reykjavik, Iceland (via Oslo). Activities in Iceland will include visits to geothermal steam baths, a geothermal power plant, glaciers, waterfalls, and geysers, as well as archaeological sites dating back to the 9th century. We fly home from Iceland on July 14.
We'll be pretty far north. The high temperature in Trondheim as I write this was 53 degrees F. Sunrise is about 3 AM and sunset around midnight, with no real night--the hours from midnight to 3 AM are listed as "twilight". Of course the reverse would be true in December, which is one of the reasons we're going in June/July. I'm trying to imagine only 3 hours of daylight. We had similar long days when we were in central Alaska a few years ago, and despite blackout curtains on the windows, sleeping was not ordinary.
So the first travel post will be from Oslo. I look forward to sharing this adventure!
Victor
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