Day 13

DAY 13

We really didn't do anything today. The bus stopped at Brønnøysun.  We got out to stretch our legs and visit an in-town shopping mall.

We had a special 5 course dinner billed as the 125^th anniversary celebration dinner.  I thought it was good, however it was one data point bolstering my theory that the number of courses a meal contains is inversely proportional to the total mass of food served.

Breakfast and lunch were buffet style. Sit where ever you can find a seat.  For dinner we had assigned seats and times – 6:30, table 4.  We had interesting seat buddies – four ladies from Canada.  They where so interesting that we only talked politics the first night.

This is a waiter.  He must be new, because he is very happy.  These guys work long and hard.  Some double in room service in the mornings.  One of the supervisors said they get 20-30,000 steps a day – according to their fitbits.

A couple days ago we did an interesting thing that adverse weather prevented us from doing on the way north.  We cruised into the Troll Fiord (Trollfjorden, bet you didn’t know that you knew so much Norweeger). 

At it’s narrowest it’s 300 feet.  Mountains on both sides are 3000 feet.  It’s almost 230 feet deep at its deepest.  It was getting near dusk, and it was foggy and rainy.

Entering the fiord.

The fuzzy spots on the photos are rain drops on the lens filter.

I was relieved to hear that this was a power facility and some Norweeger had not chosen to live at the end of this thing.  Although I have plenty of pictures of homes almost as isolated and remote as this.

The sides were very steep and with several water falls.

The ship has side thrusters in the bow so it can pivot around.  Here we are perpendicular to the fiord.  The sides were closer than they appear in this photo.

Heading out