Bergen, Norway

Today we spent most of the morning sailing into the harbor at Bergen, passing through fjords and a rocky, rugged landscape. Shortly before we arrived, the ship sailed under the bridge in the picture to the right; it was quite a sight to see - with only 7m clearance between the top of the ship and the bridge, the enormous ship just barely squeezed through.

In Bergen itself, the highlight of our tour was a short funicular ride to the top of one of the seven mountains surrounding the city. From the top we saw a panoramic vista of the harbor and surrounding city, which sprawls over quite a large area (this is the second-largest city in Norway, with a population of about 250,000). As you can see from the photograph, today was sunny and beautiful, which is quite unusual since it rains here almost 300 days per year.