Bergen

1 Travel Route - Saturday 23 June	2 Off for an early walk around Marken	3 Bergen Railway Station	4 Colourful street
5 Part of the Leprosy Museum Formerly St Jorgen's Hospital dating back to the early 1400s.	6 Another back alley	7 Time to board our bus	8 Troldhaugen Site of the Edvard Grieg Museum and the house where he lived and composed music.
9 Museum entrance	10 Troldhaugen map	11 Off to the villa Te villa was finished in 1885 and used mainly in summer.	12 Villa and statue of Grieg Grieg who was born in Bergen also died in Bergen in 1907, aged 64
13 Entering the villa	14 Portrait and bust	15 Grieg's Steinway piano This is still used for private concerts.	16 Villa interior
17 View from the grounds	18 Troldhaugen overlooks Lake Nordas	19 Leaving Troldhaugen	20 Off to Bryggen (the dock) in Bergen
21 The Hanseatic buildings of Bryggen Originally built in the 11th century, many buildings have been destroyed by various fires and replaced.	22 The newer section of Bryggen	23 Walk route through older Bryggen	24 Our entry & exit points We entered along Enhjørningsgården and exited through Bellgården.
25 Walking along Enhjørningsgården	26 The view upwards	27 At the end of Enhjørningsgården	28 A monster in Bryggestredet
29 Near the entrance to Bellgården	30 Bellgården is 300 years old	31 Bellgården	32 Bellgården entrance - our exit point
33 Off to the Floibanen funicular railway	34 Viewing platform at the Floyen lookout	35 Bergen panorama	36 Bergen detail 1
37 Bergen detail 2	38 Lille Lungegårdsvannet (lake) This lake was one block from our hotel - I wish I had known!	39 Overlooking Bergen Harbour	40 Bergen Harbour & Bryggen
41 Ships alongside Bryggen	42 Cruise ship terminal	43 Floyen Lookout restaurant	44 Inside restaurant
45 Waiting to descend	46 Patience is a virtue	47 Back to Bryggen	48 The descent
49 Hi Su!	50 The weather then worsened at back the top!	51 The Sørlandet tall ship This is the world’s oldest (1927) full-rigged ship still in operation.	52 The Christian Radich tall ship The Christian Radich (built 1935) was used for training merchant navy sailors and now for charters and training.
53 Bow of the Christian Radich The Christian Radich featured in the movie Windjammer (1958) and The Ondein Line TV series (1970s).	54 The Statsraad Lehmkuhl training ship	55 More Bryggen buildings	56 The Hanseatic Museum This building dates to the early 1700s.
57 A diversion on our way to the bus	58 And back to our hotel