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| Breakfast on Hotel Balcony
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| While sitting outside, Di Yin had the smart idea of taking a picture of
us and the fjord as reflected in our hotel room's window.
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| Hiking
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| Typical Norway?
| A pretty house under a waterfall. I'm not sure if that's the top of the waterfall we were hiking towards.
| On the way up, looking down at the valley, complete with a water,
containing Flam and other small towns. Look at the color of the grass!
If I recall correctly, the harbor is just over the horizon.
| Looking at the valley in the other direction.
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| The top three-quarters of the Brekkefossen waterfall, with mountains in the background.
| Focused tightly on the full waterfall (hence with no distant mountains).
| A video, first of the waterfall, then a pan around the valley.
| An excellent, excellent, excellent view of Flam and
vicinity. I even got the train chugging halfway across the picture.
The curve of the river, the sweep of the road ... I even think the
tunnel adds something.
I took this picture at my camera's highest
resolution and it's pixel perfect. (View the full-sized image if you
don't believe me.)
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The same picture again, just to make sure I got it. The exposure and
colors aren't as great in this one.
Flam's harbor, by the way, is
hidden by the rise of the land in the middle of the picture.
| For reasons I no longer recall, I thought this house was cute.
| At times in Norway, I'd spot plants that were a strange,
almost-unnatural shade of green. This picture is of one such instance.
Di Yin thinks it might be "young wheat."
| On the way back to Flam, we walked near the train tracks. Thus, I got
to a chance to photograph the Flåmsbana (Flamsbana), the train we rode
the previous day on the last leg of our rail journey to Flam.
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| Buffet Lunch at Furukroa
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Roughly clock-wise from top:
- fish cake
- cooked, seasoned salmon
- cooked salmon with a light sauce
- shrimp pasta salad
- cured fish (mackerel?)
- cured halibut
- cured salmon
- salad
- salmon lox. They had two different types of lox: lightly versus strongly smoked. I forget which one this is.
| Seconds of some salmon, plus some definitely good sauerkraut (not too
pungent) and another pasta salad.
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I also tried some items Di Yin took:
- cream of cauliflower soup: delicious. I could smell it when she set it down.
- boiled, skinless potatoes: perfect texture.
- pickled herring: sweet, fairly good
- chicken stuffed with cheese and broccoli: definitely good.
| The dessert selection was big on jellied or moussed desserts. I tried four:
- chocolate - meh.
- an alcohol-tasting pudding - decent, though I think it might've been slightly burnt (sugar as alcohol burned off?)/
- lighted whipped cream a la ice cream - so good I had seconds.
- almond mousse (not pictured).
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| Flam Railway Museum
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| Ah, odd laws and the tactics people use to get around them.
| Train(-track) cycles. There was also a gas-powered one on display (not
pictured).
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| Ferry to Bergen
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| The high speed boat we took to Bergen.
| The hotel, Flam Marina & Apartments, in which we stayed, as seen from
the ferry. We had the middle room on the second floor.
| The part of the marina's dock we walked on every time we stopped by our hotel.
| Ditto, with more of the mountains in the background.
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| Aurland, the ferry's first stop.
| Ibid.
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| Ah, fjords and their mountains and valleys.
| Di Yin, along with reflection of the landscape in the window.
At
times, we thought the reflection looked better than the real thing.
(This picture does not convey that impression.)
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| The part of the fjord we've already sailed through, with emphasis on the clouds.
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| Ibid, with emphasis on the mountains' slopes.
| What are they growing? Grapes?!
| A town nestled in a valley.
| The same picture taken with my camera's highest resolution.
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