NO13 - Day 6 - Paul's View - Bergen

The last day in Norway. We were awakened by the captain over the tannoy telling us we had arrived in Bergen.

For some reason I had been awake until about 4am and so a wake up call for coffee at 0715 and then tannoy announcements were all I needed!

After breakfast we took the shuttle bus into Bergen. It's not far but we are in an industrial berth and not one of the tourist berths. The Minerva is! Maybe that's why the upped anchor earlier than us yesterday!!

Having to wait for the buses to arrive and then get into the city, and of course, get back again, wasted quite a lot of our shore time.

Claire at the fish market quay. 

Loads of seafood but again not sold as we would expect in Folkestone!  No Norwegian version of Chummies. We did have a small taste of a 59kr pot of caviar. Large balls but not as tasty as the lumpfish we buy at home in Lidl or Aldi for the equivalent of 20kr!!

We did buy a small punnet of strawberries. A Slimming World superfood to help burn off the lbs we have put on.

From there we walked round to look at the old Bergen in the Bryggen. Many of the old buildings have been restored and the Norwegian habit of burning down their wooden buildings seemed to have abated for a while

Bryggen

Bryggen

Once we had wandered the old streets we made our way to the bus and back to the ship for lunch, siesta and the sail-away.

By 6pm we were a long way down the fjord and heading for the open sea and the 500 mile voyage back to Dover.