Bergen, Norway

Took the train from Oslo and now I'm in Bergen. The seven hour train ride passes through the mountains (about 1200 metres) and it's still completely snowed under there. There's a million tunnels here, on the buses and trains it seems like you're in a tunnel half the time. My train had problems, and for the first time in Norway I experienced a train/boat/bus that didn't leave or arrive exactly on schedule. The restaurant car had problems with its brakes, and so it was disconnected from the middle of the train and then we carried on, two hours late.

There were some great views from the train but they wouldn't come out in pictures, partly because the view is so big, and also because the train window was all spotty from the rain and snow.

Bergen's a nice little city. There are a lot of tourists, (it's part of the "Norway in a nutshell" tour that you can do in a weekend), and a lot of people from the CCI Users Conference are doing it. Already ran into a couple people from the conference.

I've adjusted to the high prices here. I just had fresh shrimp at the harbour market, and bought a fresh bun at the bakery for *only* NOK 9, and a coke for *only* 23. That works out to $2 for the bun and almost $5 for the coke, but any time you spend less than NOK 50 for something, it feels like a deal. (There's cheap internet here, only NOK 15 for 15 minutes!)