Sweden 08 - Pining and the Fjords
Right… falling behind on the posts. This is 2 weeks ago now.
Apologies for the previous post… so crass and immature and a distortion of reality. etc. etc. Blah. Blah.
So I blew 500 Euro (I work in Euro now), to fly to Bergen, Norway then take several trains and a cruise around the world biggest, deepest, and whateverest Fjord.
SO....
This is Bergen, home of Dolk - World famous stencil artist (needs verification)
Nathalie! - Show nick!
Bergen won the football (aka, soccer) this day. The town was going nuts.
Bergens are a proud lot, for a town that rains eleventy billion days a year and never really sees the sun due to … well, bad placement really.
Right,… so this was on the train trip.
The hills were alive with the sound of music (actually… that will be the next post, but here they really were).
And here is the Fjord. I have 300 odd photos … again. I don’t know why I take so many.
Yeah yeah… it was great. But all this touristy crap didn’t make the weekend. It was the people. I will never stay in a hotel on my holidays ever again. Couch surfing totally rocks. You meet the coolest people to hang out with.
Here is me with Vladimir and Ahn.
Vlad was my Couchsurfing host in Bergen. A really cool guy who’s job (business consultant or something) travels like mine does. He is there for 3 months and this one Saturday just happened to be the day he decided to go on the same cruise as me. Anyway, he’s from the Ukraine, but lives 4 years in France, (insert cool city, not Paris, here).
Ahn is an illustrator from Korea:
We met her totally randomly on the train when I tried to practice my Japanese on her. Whoops. But if you don’t liante people, you miss out on the new. Plus we had the same camera, so instant best friends.
She stayed with us and Vlads place for her first couch surfing experience. We drank beers well into the night… or rather they did, I was totally exhausted, had two and passed out.
So now I have a few more places to surf in the world. Might do Korea when I go to Tokyo.
Here’s abouts where we three had a picnic for lunch. It was really great. I think I have a new passion for listening to Eastern European philosophy - inspired by vlad and various others I have met along the way.
More scenery:
Here’s 2 shots off the boat. I’m thinking of making a slide reel called “people actually live here”
That’s it for now.
Next post: the Bavarian mountains.
For now, Its time to pine away.
I met a Swedish girl, and I can’t see her enough.
It’s really killing me and I’m leaving soon.
Maybe never to return
Again, geography is my biggest hurdle.
Ironic, hey?