Bergen! Known as the Seattle / Pacific Northwest of Scandinavia. (← A sentence I just made up.) This was our first time to Norway or any Scandinavian country. I have been a fan of the culture + design for quite a while.
We bused it from the airport and strolled our not-even-crawling-yet Simone (the good ol' days) to our Airbnb apartment. The strikingly handsome owner of the apartment was packing up for a water skiing weekend at the cabin with his brahs. (It was going to be in the 70-80's F and sunny for the next several days, a rarity, so the locals were acting like it was Christmas morning. We bonded with him over his American rock vinyl collection and pointed out a Wilco playbill on the wall - Wolftrap, Vienna, Virginia. "Omg, were you at that show?!" "Uhhh, no, I like Wilco and bought it on the internet." We explained to him that we were at that very show, and are in fact from Virginia. Handsome Norwegian was not as impressed with this coincidence as I was. He proceeded to tell us how to work the washing machine and to eat anything in the fridge while I was still obsessing over ... Wilco! Wolftrap! Huh ... what a small world.
That evening we wandered down to the port and then took the funicular up to see the vista views over the city and hang out before dinner.
Norway is a notoriously expensive country to visit. For meals, we often picnicked with grocery store items and beer. Bergen has an amazing fish market - fresh smoked salmon, salmon rolls, fish soup, crab legs, clams. Everything we sampled was amazing. We loved to grab take-away food from the market and head to a park with our grocery store brews in tow.
The first night there we decided to ($$$ against our original plan $$$) plant ourselves at a microbrew bar in the old town and enjoy multiple drinks while we people watched and watch the sun set. We started noticing an abnormally high amount of metal t-shirts on almost every person around the old town. Come to find out Metallica were in town that night, playing an outdoor venue in the fort ruins, just several hundred yards down the hill from our flat. We fell asleep to the sweet calming drums of Lars Ulrich that night.
Below is a round up of the few lazy days we spent in Bergen. Overload of Simone photos, so little! Fjords post / photos up next.
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