Before arriving at Flam, Sharon made sure to buy me a Dale of Norway sweater. I guess I didn't bring enough warm clothes with me. Leaving Kingston when it was 25 deg and coming to a climate of a high of 18 was difficult to pack in anticipation..
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We're getting ready and looking over the countryside
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A view of the low clouds from Deck 8 on MARS
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I would never get tired on the sporatic house and colors. Lots of trees here...I say that as you'll see a difference as we proceed west to Iceland.
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you wonder how communities like this thrive
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I know that if I was younger, those mountains and waterfalls, just call for a photographer to try and capture them
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The isolationist...
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Look how low the clouds go
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Well, we disembark and head up by bus to the Stegastein Viewpoint
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Yes, my lovely wife stayed back.
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My view
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I guess you're wondering how we got up so high? Well, we came by bus. Large roads you're thinking with the tourist magnet that this is? Well it turns so much I wasn't able to capture the turns as well as I would have liked to capture. As you can also see, this is not a "real" two lane highway so there are indentations along the road that if you see another vehicle coming and you're closer to the indentation then you high-tail-it to that location and allow the vehicle to pass. Believe it or not, everyone is very polite...or was it the fact we had a 40 pax bus? lol
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We got bacck to the ship and at 6pm headed off for supper
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After supper we took another tour of the boat. You'll notice how plentiful the boat it? We hardly meet anyone and there is always a free chair (s) or table for whatever we want.
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A saliboat just heading out for some late evening sailing
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I sat and watched as Norway passes by
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