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Do it yourself wander around Bergen

As we had not booked a trip here (the town is in easy walking distance) we let the excursion rush go and took our time.   We left the ship in the early afternoon.   There were a couple of spits of rain so Carol took a brolly, I just had a coat.   Our plan was to visit the fish market with our cameras.   Along the way we passed the famous wooden Hanseatic houses.   These front on to Brygen (the road along the harbour) and are accessed from alley-ways that run up to the next road.   Because they are close together they are not easy to photograph.   Another problem is that people are continually passing through these alleys and so it is difficult to find a moment when they are not cluttered.

Bergen then lived up to its reputation and it began to rain properly.   The fish market is at the end of Brygen, and runs across the width of the harbour.   If you go left instead of right you come to the station for the funicular railway that runs up to Mount Fløyen, (seen here in a telephoto shot taken earlier from the ship).   By the time we got to the fish market we were soaked, putting a damper on things.   We wandered around the stalls for a bit, but with everyone using the stalls as cover from the rain it was a bit crowded.   The cafes were full, so with nowhere to shelter we decided to go baxk to the ship.   We looked for a taxi with no luck, so we got the bus back to the ship.   You can see our route on my GPS track. We had only been back about half an hour when the rain stopped.   This picture looks down the harbour to the fish market which you can't see, but it is in front of the big square building where we caught the bus back.   The Hanseatic houses are on the left opposite the ferries on the right.

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