Bergen, Norway

Bergen might be a major hub for all the cruise ships and the fjord tour boats but it's still a working harbour for the oil and gas industry that Norway has profited and invested well from with its Sovereign Fund one of the biggest in the world.

On our second night, I wanted to shoot the wooden houses of Bryggen with sunset scheduled for around 9:30pm. It didn’t really work for the houses but the sky lit up over the boats moored at the mouth of the harbour so why not…

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Bergen, Mount Fløyen, Norway

We’ve just got back from a short break to Bergen when the weather decides to make everyone in the UK happy and shine every day. That wasn’t the case in Bergen…

When you exit the airport terminal building you are greeted by a large neon sign mounted on the rockface opposite the terminal (I assume it is illuminated at night) exclaiming BERGEN? Almost everyone on the transfer coach was puzzled by the question mark at the end but we didn’t find out why until the next day!

The reason we went is that Jet2 appear to be trialling Bergen for a six-week period and the cost seemed very reasonable especially as they were throwing in a free full-day excursion on the Flåm Railway and the Aurlandsfjord cruise to boot. So just to kick-off a series of images from our trip here’s the first taken mid-afternoon from the top of Mount Fløyen overlooking Bergen and its outer suburbs.

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