Last day on board the Polarlys

An interesting light house

 Today is Tuesday, September 10 and our last day on board the Polarlys. We had three more small ports to visit; Floro, Maloy and Torvik. These are typical coastal Norwegian fishing villages. The herring run put Floro on the map. When the fishing got slow, these places took on the aquaculture industry. There is also ship building, and supplying the oil industry. Most of these smaller towns are limited in their growth due to their location at the base of a mountain range!

Another small village along the coast

 After, the last stop in Floro we still had six hours of sailing past the islands, small villages, and fjords, through the coastal waters, before we arrived at our final port, Bergen. It was a bitter sweet experience – I wanted to stare out the window and absorb as much as possible (it was a little cold to go on deck), but I was still anxious to get organized to leave the ship.

 We spent the rest of Tuesday In Bergen, staying at the same hotel as before. We did some last minute shopping and walked along the Sverresborg Fortress and Hakons Hall (which is under reconstruction). This is at a high spot in the city, so we got to look over the town and say farewell.

Don Kleinbub, King Hakon VI

Pedistrian street in Bergen Norway

The next day, Wednesday, found us at the Bergen airport boarding a plane for Copenhagen Denmark. I will tell you about that in my next post.