We find ourselves under the grey skies at the marina in flam Norway overlooking the beautiful fjord. Another blog iPhone update!
We are slowly making our way to western Norway fighting the cold rain and grey skies for the past week. Today we became uber excited upon seeing the sun for the first time in Norway. This was as the train cruised past the impressive glaciers on top of Europe’s highest plateau.
The last hour of today’s train ride was down an incredibly steep section of regular gauge track – not narrow gauge. We stopped at a rushing waterfall and were treated to inspirational music complete with dancing Scandinavian princesses. They try to lure men to the rocks next to the waterfall with their singing – a Norwegian legend. How often can you tell someone your job is dancing for tourists next to a waterfall!
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A dancing queen performing next to this impressive waterfall:
Interesting and timely post I’d love to hear more of your impressions. I’m in the middle of exchanging a house exchange to Norway next summer. The Flam railway is part of our itinerary. Is it worth the trip?
I would recommend Norway but be prepared for grey gloomy weather in the summer and be pleasantly surprised if you have a break and some sun and blue skies 🙂 – The Fjords are worth visiting but really “shine” when you have good weather. There’s quite a selection of Museums in Oslo including the excellent but small National Museum with a number of famous Impressionist painters represented. Be sure to head over to Bergen on the west coast for the most spectacular fjords 🙂
One more thing – also prepare yourself for very expensive prices! Norway is the most expensive country I think I have visited in Europe – on par with Iceland and Switzerland I think.
Hi David, thanks for the warning. I’m used to the weather as I live in the “sunny” south east of Ireland. I arrived back here to temperatures of 12C at the end of August.
We plan to travel a bit but will “house swop” for three weeks which will help reduce costs. I have already noticed that hotels are incredibly expensive in the cities,The Flam railway was on my list of things to see but your mention of Scandinavian ladies singing on the waterfall sounded a wee bit “twee”