Today was our first full day in Bergen and we went on an excursion which took us to a couple of museums. Bergen was, at one time, the capital of Norway and also the largest wooden city in Europe. Despite the wet climate this meant the city burned down many times. When they finally decided in the late 17th and early 18th century that building with wood was perhaps not such a great idea, the wooden buildings started to be removed. Old Bergen museum is home to around 50 of these buildings that were moved here. For those readers from Wales, it's a similar concept to St Fagans
During a tour of town in the bus we passed the UNESCO world heritage site of the few remaining wooden warehouses that were part of the city occupied by the Hanseatic league. Finally we ended up at the Bryggen museum where I bought a nice new hat in the gift shop to help protect me from the local weather. It really does rain a lot here. They even have a special local word, opplett, for the short gap periods between showers.
After the tour, Becky and I walked down to the harbour and ate at the fish market again. This time Becky ordered the whale steak and I had a taste. It really tastes remarkably like beef steak.
After that we got an early night as boarding is tomorrow and we have to put our cases out early
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