It is snowing heavily in Flam. We are waiting for our ferry to Gudvangen through the Norwegian Fjord land. We have a restful morning in our rural hotel as its cold outside. At 3.10 pm the ferry departs full of excited Japanese travelers and a few Australians also, as we later discover. It is very moody with snow falling, very high snow capped mountains on either side of us and the occasional colorful rural village, with houses largely either of red or white. The...

We are forced to rest today, it is Saturday morning we are at our hotel 'Fretheim' in Flam. It is snowing and foggy, we are waiting for our ferry to take us on a scenic trip down the fjord to Voss. Yesterday we left Oslo early by train. A 4 hour trip, lots of people with skis were on the train. It was very scenic, especially when we came to snow covered mountains and it was snowing.We changed trains at Myrdal, (this is at 1000 meters), for Flam railw...

We always liked to be pleasantly surprised. Coming in by air to Oslo there was snow on the ground, it was cold and raining, but Oslo really did surprise us. We have called it 'The City of Sculpture'. Sculpture is in abundance here, the buildings are exciting, it's a stunning city. Norway is the fourth wealthiest country in the world largely due to oil and natural gas production from the 80's in the North Sea. Due to the cold and rain, we wonder if we will be a...