• Scandinavia 2016

    Scenic Scandinavia and its Fjords: a Trafalgar tour
    Carol, Jim, Laveta and I

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    21 August – 3 September 2016

    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 theScandic 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 ofNaroyfjord
    Just extraordinary!
    Stopping inside Lærdal Tunnel, Europe’s longest auto tunnel and Another ferry crossing!
    TheSognefjord 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
    Oslo Opera House
     
    Vigeland Sculpture Park. A beautiful but weird place!
     
    At the The Viking Ship Museum
    The Fram Polar Ship Museum
    Leaving Norway
    A lunch stop in Karlstad, our first stop in Sweden
    Clarion Hotel Stockholm
    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)
    Drottningholm Palace
    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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