Monday 23 February 2009

Norway

There was a travel advert in a newspaper saying "Free Air Fares". Except that they only gave you the free flight if you booked their £1303 holiday to Norway. In other words, the holiday actually would have cost about £1700. That's too much for a 12 night holiday in Norway. It's too much for a 20 night holiday in Norway.
There's a piece in the travel section of The Telegraph about Bergen. What a wonderful place it is!
I remember Bergen well. It is the only place I have ever been where the weather changed about five times from one extreme to another in about eight hours. It was bright sunshine one minute, the next was cloudy, then rain, then thunder and lightening then hailstones, then snow.
The article talks about the place in Bergen to meet friends and mentions the Bien Bar. I have to believe him that a bar selling alcohol exists in Nrway but I never found one. We stayed at a quite posh hotel where the price of beer was exorbitant and the price of wine was astronomic. So I asked a young lady at the hotel desk where was there a bar in town? No bar. What about a pub? No pub. Another hotel? A mile away but the prices would be the same.
In Bergen there's a lot of fish and a lot of weather. In Norway there's a lot of weather and a lot of beetroot, cooked as a vegetable and served with most meals. OK there's a lot of waterfalls and fiords but nothing is like you see in colour TV films - everything is grey.
And they don't sell wine or spirits in supermarkets..... End of story.

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