With Bergen we were now in the second largest city of Norway, but with 284.000 inhabitants still a small one. The mountains rise steep behind the coast and only the surrounding islands provide space for the suburbs of Bergen. The city of Bergen was founded around 1070 and in 1350 a “Kontor” or trading post of the Hanseatic …
By chance we had discovered a hiking route leading along a historic road connecting the East with the West of Norway. This route is called Kongevegen (King’s Road) and leads over the mountainous Filefjell from Laerdal to Valdres. Already in the evening we managed to walk along this old road in the Galdane section. The …
The Jostedalsbreen is the biggest glacier in continental Europe, covering an area of 487 km2! A helicopter flight might be a good way to experience how big that is. We only had the chance to hike to another of its arms and learn more about it in the glacier museum, where we came close to …
