Last Friday, April 24, 2026, our friend Francis dropped us off at the Traverse City airport in the afternoon. We then flew to Detroit, to Amsterdam, and then to Bergen, Norway. Our flights were on Delta and Air France. All the 11 hours in the aircraft seats gave Bill terrible back pains so he was ready to get to our ship - The Neptune owned by Viking.
We settled into our cabin on the ship and were delighted that our luggage arrived at our room soon after we did. The ship is large holding 900 passengers plus it crew. We are now about six hours ahead of Michigan and the weather is cool and clear.
On Sunday we passed up all the shore excursions and simply walked around Bergen and checked out a few of the shops and stores. The currency here in Norway is the Krone which is worth about 10 cents of our dollar. Many of the shops have beautiful wool sweaters.
We are now far to the north so it was no surprise that Bill was attacked by this type of bear!
We visited a small museum in Bergen and saw where Vikings from long ago had lived.
This very tall Viking was kind enough to donate his ancient body to the museum for display,
We walked back to our ship and took a last look at the harbor that was very quiet on that Sunday.
Tomorrow is Eidfjord Norway.
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