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Norway

Norway. June 14-20 2007. Preparing for departure from Blackbushe. Tivoli Gardens, Copenhagen: The scariest ride ever. Nils our Copenhagen guide and cab driver. The Little Mermaid- Copenhagen seemed filled with them, and generally not wrought of metal!.

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Norway

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  1. Norway June 14-20 2007

  2. Preparing for departure from Blackbushe

  3. Tivoli Gardens, Copenhagen: The scariest ride ever

  4. Nils our Copenhagen guide and cab driver

  5. The Little Mermaid- Copenhagen seemed filled with them, and generally not wrought of metal!

  6. Passing over Copenhagen before heading to the North

  7. West coast of southern Sweden

  8. Entering Norway

  9. High ground in South central Norway

  10. Our first sight of a Norwegian fjord

  11. .... and the first glacier sighting

  12. After refueling in Stavanger, we couldn’t resist continuing north under the Norwegian evening light

  13. Arriving in Alesund- 10 PM

  14. Day 3: hoping to make it into the Arctic circle

  15. Fish farming

  16. Poor weather greets us on arrival in Helle Svolvaer in Lofoten Islands. 68 degrees North. Well inside Arctic Circle

  17. Cod Pizza

  18. Cod drying on racks. We would learn much about this fish on our stay here.

  19. Our Rorbu (fisherman’s cabin) : home for a few nights

  20. The definition of the Arctic – the sun at midnight fully above the horizon

  21. A steel sculptor

  22. Dried fish heads are exported to Nigeria for a popular spicy dish

  23. Confronted with geological beauty around every corner

  24. “stop whale beef”

  25. Getting to know the curator at the cod museum

  26. Cod tongues – a local delicacy. No, it didn’t taste like chicken

  27. happening upon the cover photo from our guide book.

  28. Heading South again-day 5

  29. Arrival at Trondheim- ancient Norwegian capital

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