Midnight Train to Oslo

Day 20:

After 5 buffets in a row, we are thoroughly stuffed. It has been nice to sit back and relax, but we're happy to be back in the real world now. We had a chance to look around Bergen sans rain this time, but 10 1/2 hours happens to be an extremely long time to wander away... A few old churches, lunch, and a revisit to Bryggen down, we still had about 7 hours to wait. As fate would have it, the Bergen train station is deep in construction, basically outdoors, and about 25 degrees. 10.59 could not come early enough! We were both excited to ride in a sleeper car for our first night train, but more than anything, we wanted that sweet love of a heater on our frozen toes. There is still a lot of travelling to do to get to mainland Europe, but a couple more connections and we should be arriving in Copenhagen tomorrow afternoon. Fingers crossed, of course...Read more