From Oslo Meri & I took a train to Bergen. If I counted correctly this is my 10th time in Bergen. I just love this town. And this time I finally had time for something else than just hanging around in Garage & going to Hole in the Sky (RIP snif). Again the plan was to go climbing. And again, it didn't happen. Might have been "a bit" rainy. Next time I really don't bother to carry the climbing gear with me, by now I should know better. But we still had a good time and finally had the time to make it to the top of Ulriken, the highest of the 7 mountains around Bergen. There's also a funicular going up but we decided to walk. Took us about an hour as we needed to stop every time we saw raspberries. Yummy. Back down we took another trail, not so steep but longer and with maybe even better views.
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| Maybe not the best hiking clothing. |
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| What a view! |
From Bergen we headed towards Eidfjord with a rental car. It was actually about the same price as if we would have taken a train/bus/ferry/bus to get there. The main reason for heading to that area (again, as we were there also last year) was Hard Anger Festival, which had probably the worst line-up of all metal festivals this year but the most beautiful location. Sadly on the first day there were only about 100 people, sometimes it even looked like there's more workers than audience.
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| Audience during one of the main bands... |
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| Some hobo in the camping ground after the festival. |
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| Another hobo. |
We decided to go only on one day and rather spend the next day driving around the Hardangerfjord area. That was a good way to get rid of the hang over anyways and a good way to avoid getting a new one for Sunday.
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| On the way to Eidfjord. |
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| Voringfossen. |
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| Kjeåsen farm. |
From Eidfjord we drove back to Bergen for a few days. I decided to climb to Ulriken again, this time in fog&rain. Didn't see shit and that was the a bad idea anyways, not even the funicular was running and there were absolutely no people. And why should there be as you could see only some meters of the path in front of you.
Last wines and beers in Garage, Legal and Apollon and then it was time to head back home again. Blaah. Still a few weeks and I'll be in Tallinn for the weekend with the girls. October looks much better though, finally to Elba with Tanja and end of the month I'll fly to Nepal again, but this time without Kate. That'll be weird.
