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We’re now in Tromso, capital of the Arctic. It is daylight starting at 10 and setting at 2. These are photos from our trip today.

14 December 2012Bergen, NorwayIt is December and we are in Bergen, Norway. Norway has a long coastline. It is irregular and broken into hundreds, maybe thousands of islands and fjords.  In two days we will travel by ship, the Lofoten, up the coast, but first we will spend a few days in Bergen in theContinue reading “Bergen, Norway; 14 Dec 2012”

We met a group of hikers on our walk today …

We are spending four days aboard this working ship as it heads north on the Norwegian Sea towards tromso.

A funicular took us to the top of a hill overlooking Bergen.

Marlow and I arrived in Bergen on Wednesday, Dec. 12 around one in the afternoon.  And to our surprise (and great delight) there was not only daylight but blue sky above us!  For some reason we were not expecting to have much daylight during this two week visit to the Norwegian coast.  The sun setContinue reading “We’ve Arrived in Bergen, Norway!”

27-28 October 2012 Leipzig The “Motete” at Thomas Kirche was not a concert. It was eighty per cent music, but it was a Lutheran service. And the Thomas Kirche choir was outstanding as one would expect of a group that just turned seven-hundred years old. Their pitch was exact. Their articulation of all those GermanContinue reading “27-28 October 2012, Leipzig, Part Two”