To Bergen by boat, bus and train

Another long travel day follow by a long dinner.
Today I did the second half of the Norway in a Nutshell trip that took me from Flam to Gudvangen by boat, bus to Voss and then train to Bergen.
The scenery in the fjords was amazing. The mountains were so step and so many waterfalls. I had a nice spot inside and went out every 15 minutes or so to take photos and take in the scenery. It was reasonably cool, many people, had their jackets on but as I was only outside for short periods I didn’t bother with mine. It was nice being cold after being so warm indoors all the time,
We got straight off the boat onto the bus for Voss. We had a short stop at the Stalheim hotel for a phot and toilet. There were multiple buses doimg the same route and one woman from our bus got back on another bus. The two men in from of her noticed she was missing and the driver went and found her.
I had nearly an hour in Voss. Time to get some water and sit and watch the hang gliders come down from the mountain behind the train station. Most of the people on the same trip as me left on a train 7 minutes before me, it’s all prebooked and they were on the Oslo - Bergen train while I was on a regional train. There were a lot of tunnels - google say 52 on the trip.
Managed to find the bus and I got to my hotel about 4:30. It’s basically on the harbour, very well located.

On the boat a man asked me to watch his bag while he went and got more of his stuff. Didn’t see much of him until close to the end of the journey, We were making small talk and he asked what I was doing tomorrow. I mentioned I was thinking of going to the English language church in Bergen. He wanted the details as he would also like to attend so we got talking. We separated at Gudvangen but I saw him again on the train station platform in Voss. He added me to WhatsApp and then introduced me to the two ladies I’d been sitting next to. One of them is from Manchester which is where I’m heading after Norway. Yee Wei then decided we should all have dinner tonight. He made a WhatsApp group of 10 different people and messages were going backwards and forwards the entire trip. I decided I was happy with wherever and whenever the group decided to go for dinner.
We ended up with 6 of us at a lovely seafood restaurant. There was Yee Wei the planner of al of this. He’s travelling alone but very sociable, Yee Wei’s colleague Alisha. They are both from Singapore and had a conference on Oslo this week. Hui Sin and Cynthia friends from the UK. Cynthia lives in Manchester. I think they met Yee Wei on the boat. Norm and Yee Wei sat next to each other on the boat and had seats on the train one in front of the other (these were reserved in advance). Norm is from Canada and has a conference in Troms next week, so it was quite a mixed group but really nice people.
We decided to order a mix of foods to share.
We had snow crab (sweet and delicate), mussels, halibut (firm white fish), rainbow trout andsmoked salmon. It was all delicious and the company was great. We were there until 11pm.Les mer