{"id":650,"date":"2011-05-10T08:22:57","date_gmt":"2011-05-10T09:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bremen\/?p=650"},"modified":"2018-04-28T07:43:34","modified_gmt":"2018-04-28T08:43:34","slug":"norway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bremen\/2011\/05\/10\/norway\/","title":{"rendered":"Norway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>by Ethan Grandel &#8217;12<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bremen\/2011\/05\/10\/norway\/img_2549_2-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-651\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-651\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bremen\/files\/2011\/05\/IMG_2549_21.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"845\" height=\"251\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">1. Bergen, on the southwestern coast of Norway, is the country\u2019s second-largest city.<br \/>\n2. Someone setting out from Bergen for the village of Fl\u00e5m by train to Voss, bus to Gudvangen, and finally boat would arrive in five hours.<br \/>\n3. This would be at the end of the Aurlandsfjord, a branch of Norway\u2019s longest fjord, the Sognefjord (over 200 kilometers).\u00a0 Walking the ten kilometers along the Aurlandsfjord from Fl\u00e5m to Aurlandsvangen, the administrative center of Aurland municipality, one could only follow the hiking path from Fl\u00e5m partway.\u00a0 (The remainder to Aurlandsvangen must be walked along the E16 highway.)<br \/>\n4. If on a winter\u2019s morning a traveler outside the village of Fl\u00e5m at this point ascends the steep slope, what story up there awaits its end?\u00a0 The houses stand from the 17th century.<br \/>\n5. On your way to Myrdal with the Fl\u00e5m Railway, you pass by the Kjosfossen, frozen in winter.<br \/>\n6. There is an excellent view of Bergen from Mt. Fl\u00f8yen, one of the seven mountains surrounding the city.\u00a0 But which ones are these?<br \/>\n7. A departure from the gateway to the fjords on a northbound Norwegian ferry would bring one to the Art Nouveau city of \u00c5lesund on the following afternoon.\u00a0 418 steps ascend to the Mt. Aksla summit.<br \/>\n8. The coastline grows increasingly rugged going north after leaving Trondheim, but may remain under cloud and snow still falling faintly.<br \/>\n9. North of the Arctic Circle, sea eagles watched us near \u00d8rnes.<br \/>\n10. Snow faintly falls on dark tree-lined ridges, in a network of lines that enlace, in a network of lines that intersect.<br \/>\n11. Imagine that the same previously shaded islands and snow-covered coasts were, southbound, sunlit.<br \/>\n12. Along the Trollfjord, one almost wants to say that <em>this <\/em>is the most spectacular segment of coastline, but what does that mean here?<br \/>\n13. The second time in Trondheim, following the trend of returning, was warmer and brighter, weather in which the near rainbow colors of the warehouses lining the Nidelva showed themselves even more vibrantly.<br \/>\n14. Not yet home, we rearrive to the far calls of gulls amidst the mountains of Bergen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Ethan Grandel &#8217;12 1. Bergen, on the southwestern coast of Norway, is the country\u2019s second-largest city. 2. Someone setting out from Bergen for the village of Fl\u00e5m by train to Voss, bus to Gudvangen, and finally boat would arrive &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bremen\/2011\/05\/10\/norway\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":178,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1142],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bremen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bremen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bremen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bremen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/178"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bremen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bremen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bremen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bremen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bremen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}