Scenic Scandinavia and its Fjords: a Trafalgar tour
21 August - 3 September 2016
Carol, Jim, Laveta and I
Trip journal in (PDF) 5 Pages
Scenic Scandinavia and
its Fjords: a Trafalgar tour
21
August - 3 September 2016
Carol, Jim, Laveta and I
Trip journal in
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5
Pages
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Business Class Lounge at SEATAC. Our Flight to
Reykjavik on Icelandair flight no. F1680
Waiting in Copenhagen airport. Meeting our guide and
orientation dinner in the
Copenhagen Marriott.
Copenhagen waterways, Royal Palace and of course,
The Little Mermaid
Downtown,
Opera House and Rodin's
The Thinker
The young people of Copenhagen and our tour boat returning
to our hotel.
Laveta in our hotel room overlooking
Trivoli Gardens in the distance.
Carol onboard our buss to the fairytale village of
Dragor with its thatched roofs.
Dinner in Dragor with our tour group, at the Strandhotel
One of the bridges to the Jutland peninsula
Walking in downtown
Odense and inside
St. Canute's
Cathedral
Laveta & Carol at the home of Hans Christian Andersen
Our hotel in the small port city of
Aalborg, Denmark and
the restaurant that the four of us discovered
Eating at the Wine Cellar (Vin handel).
Crossing from Hirtshals, Denmark to Kirstiansand, Norway
Dinner in the Scandic Stavanger hotel in
Stavanger
Norway. On another ferry the following day
Troldhaugen- and the home of the composer
Edvard Grieg
Sod covered auditorium and and inside for a piano
performance.
Jim in the
Admiral Clarion Hotel, downtown
Bergen
Laveta. Old town Bergen (Bryggen)
Bergen & tour director, Jacqui Stark, kissing a moose!
Bergen- from the funicular overlook on the the summit of
Mt. Floyen. Downtown fish market.
St. Mary church. Note flying hourglass on the
headstone! Laveta & Carol shopping.
Øvre-Eide Gård farm, a short drive from Bergen, where we had a tour and
dinner.
The town of
Voss where we boarded the train to
Myrdal, where we changed to the
Flam Train (Flamabana)
Waterfalls and tunnels. Stopping to get a wet view!
In Undrodel we boarded The Lady Elisabeth for a
breathtaking tour of
Naroyfjord
Just extraordinary!
Stopping inside
Lærdal Tunnel, Europe's longest auto tunnel
and
Another ferry crossing!
The
Sognefjord Hotel
and our room.
Jauqui Stark Tour Director and Lazo Torma
our bus driver
High and beautiful country
Gerianger, at the end of the fjord, where we would
spend the next two days (could have spent a month)!
Our room... in
Hotel Gerianger and
Geriangerjord from on our deck.
In the town of Lom now where we visited its famous
Stave Church
On the road again- driving southeast, away from fjord
country.
We stayed in the skiing town of
Lillehammer, home of the 1994 winter
Olympics
Countryside north of Oslo
Oslo's
City Hall where the
Nobel Peace Prize is awarded.
Lunch time in
Oslo,
Akershus Fortress
Vigeland Sculpture Park. A beautiful but weird place!
At the
The Viking Ship Museum
Leaving Norway
A lunch stop in
Karlstad,
our first stop in Sweden
At the hotel bar
Lots of bicycles.
The four of us in
Stockholm
Kaknas Tower (155m) highest point in Stockholm. View from the top.
Going out to dinner with Jacqui and our tour mates, in the old part
of Stockholm
Stockholm City Hall where the Nobel prizes are awarded (except peace prize
awarded in Oslo)
Antique steamboat ride on
Lake Malaren
17th century warship
Vasa which sank just minutes into her maiden voyage and recovered in 1961
Our last dinner
Changing planes in Reykjavik
Group photo in
Copenhagen
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