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Our first trip was so successful; we thought we would try two trips in one year, so our second trip in 2000 was to Norway where we stayed in Vos, at the Fleicher’s Hotel overlooking Vangs Lake. The meals were an experience in themselves including many delicacies such as Cloud Berry pudding and an exceptional buffet from the sea with about 50 kinds of fish cooked or smoked or raw in a beautiful array. The hotel also had its own night club with a dance floor that set the expectation for many a trip.
We visited a stave church where wooden footings still stand as a testament to the ingenuity of the early Norwegian builders.
A trip to Bergen included the harbor area with the old town cobblestone streets and warehouses.
Of course, a trip to Norway would not be complete without a cruise through the Fjords viewing the rounded hills and water floes that provide much of Norway’s hydro power hidden in the interiors of the hills.
Several of us went on a kayaking expedition on our free day and were treated to a trek across a calm clear lake... ...to an island where our guide fixed us a near gourmet meal over a small gas camp stove. Throughout the week we were reminded by our campus director to take our umbrellas wherever we went, but it never rained on us while we were out and about touring villages and lakes. It was a memorable trip for a small band of travelers!
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visited the home Troldhaugen, and museum honoring Norway’s
foremost Romantic composer, Edvard Grieg, the little troll and
his wife.
