More Bergenization!

I didn't get around to finishing and posting this earlier, so it is a bit mis-timed:

Well this is our last night in Bergen and since the internet is free here I figured I would give another update.

Tuesday was not that touristy for us. We woke up and made eggs and toast (very foreign, I know!). I did get to try Norwegian brown cheese though, which is sort of a strange cheese that is very sweet, so that it ends up tasting like a mixture between cheese and caramel. We were up fairly late so we got a late start, and by the time we finished breakfast it was probably 3pm. So, for the rest of the day we mostly just bummed around Bergen a little bit, having a look at the shops, including a very value-village style shop and a mall in the American style. We were pretty tired and nothing much was going on, so we watched TV with Carl and his roommates and went to bed pretty early.

We must have been jetlagged or something, because we still woke up pretty late, at around 12 noon. We went to an art museum in Bergen which has paintings by such famous artists as Edvard Munch and Johan Christian Dahl. After that, we met up with Carl who got us on a bus to a church in the forest called Fantoft stave church. It is a recreation of a thousand year old church that was made from all wood, without even any nails, then soaked in pitch to protect it from moisture. The church was burnt down a few years ago in an incident of arson, and unfortunately now they keep it fenced in and with cameras on it. It is really sad that someone would do this such an interesting piece of history - the perpetrator was a fellow in a black metal band who was trying to speak out against christianity by burning the church down.

Last night we went out with Carl's school friends. We hung out at someone's house for a while then went to a tropical style pub. Again all of these people were super nice and good to talk to, although there were a few people this time that had a little more trouble with English. We still got along well though. We moved on to a University pub, which was fun, but there was nothing special about it except when I finished in the washroom and came out of the stall to come face to face with a few of the girls we were hanging out with. Apparently, I did not get confused, and there is actually only one bathroom in the place. Anyway, we got very tasty sausages on the way home and went to sleep far earlier this time around.

We did something a little different this morning and went for a walk up the mountain beside Carl's house. The walk took a good 30 minutes of a nearly vertical walking, then we walked over to the next mountain and took a tram down. The view from up there is beautiful; you can see almost the entirety of Bergen, including the harbour and the university, and a handful of pretty churches. It's hard to describe so I will just put up a few pictures onto Flickr!