Another Day- More Fabulous Scenery

Alesund is a city of about 40,000 people on 7 islands connected by bridges, tunnels, and ferries. In the early 1940's there was a huge and devastating fire that destroyed much of the city centre. In the re-build that followed they adopted an art nouveau style and banned the use of wood. As you'll see below a very interesting style was the result. Alesund ,pronounced Ol eh zun,
is also spelled Aalesund and is part of a network of European cities that uses the art nouveau style. The main industries are based on fishing and whaling.


We took a local trolley ride around town that also took us to Fjellstua, a hill overlooking the city that provides some terrific views.


Yesterday I mentioned about ordering two beers in Norwegian and being told I sounded Danish. So a young lady helped correct me by telling me to say " to ul takke". That produces the correct dialect for the beer word. The downtown area on a Saturday wasn't really very busy which I found surprising.



Again as I've noted before I like to buy either a local baseball cap or T-shirt. Well not today. My other obsession is calendars so I bought a 2013 photo calendar of Norway.

BTW the more observant among you will notice I learned a new trick with my photo collages. Oh one more thing... You wouldn't know the Olympics are taking place with the coverage on board... No opening ceremony and no live coverage of events, just some post reports from BBC World.

Back on the ship we went to the Crows Nest for drinks there with USA friends Abra,Shel,Phyllis ,Harry,John, and Kathy. Somehow we got to talking about Inukshuks so John and I built one of the materiel on hand. Pretty good I'd say. After dinner Deen and I went for a stroll around the Promenade -very pleasant evening and still very light out at 10pm. Of course we are at the 62 parallel.


Bergen , Norway on Sunday..........
From RCD's iPad

Location:Alesund, Norway