Caught the train at 800 am, lovely trains........ checkout the cafe
About two hours out of oslo there are hills all covered with snow.... at the highest point.....
we arrive in Flam and take a train down the flam valley which is described by lonely planet as the best trainride inthe world...down down down with many stops ... waterfalls allover the valley falling into this river which is so amazingly clear
no smoking on the trains...smoking is a good way of making freinds ........ i ask a japanese for a light..no dirtying up the platforms either... i stub out the cigarette and the japanese hands me a leather (?) pouch in which to put the stub.
Next station I meet another smoker, an american lady. We sit together for the rest of the trip, making it even more enjoyable.
She is here to give a workshop on money and spirituality .......these americans can think of anything........ she was in Pune for 3 years many many years ago...Osho........ another useful connecter.......
We then enter this boat which takes us down the fjords...... high hills, often very green, and with many many waterfalls coming down all sides............ it is difficult to describe the fjords, difficult to photograph, cause it is so big and awesome..... at one of the biggest waterfalls, the boat goes to touch the rocks and the boat men put out a pipe and we run to get water from the waterfall in glasses............. so cold, so fresh.................mmmmmmmmmmmmmm. We stand out at the begining of the boat in the open....... have everything on..... thermalunderwear, sweater, jacket, woolen hat, gloves, socks, scarves and its still cold !!
After a two hour ride in the boat we come to this village. We climb onto buses, there is now a slight drizzle and drive to Voss, a major sking centre. A river, mountains around.
And from there catch a train to Bergen, a historical city .......... the driver of our train tells me that it once rained for 100 days without stopping in Bergen. it rains a lot... it is raining when we get there, and I wait in the train station and catch the nite train back to Oslo.
Lots of seeing.
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