• Essence of Norway. This was shot on my second day, freezing cold about 2,100 feet above Bergen. It shows my holiday experience in a nutshell.
• Bergen Harbour looked very dawn-like, even at 11am. The sun at this time of year never gets very high up, casting beautiful evening light for several hours.
• Bob the bear came all the way to Norway with me and enjoyed the chilly weather. It's the built in fur-coat I think. Here he is relaxing by a chilly-looking fjord.
• Førde, where I spent New Years eve and day is home to the celebrated Nordic Centre for Penis Exaggeration, as this statue near the town centre shows.
• A bare behind? Well, nearly! I spotted this wee fellow frozen next to fjord in Flåm.
• What the...? Oh. It's his nose! I do have a wider shot of this wooden troll if you need reassurance. Click here to request it.
• Separated at birth? While walking around a 'closed' Voss on Sunday, I met someone who seemed strangely familiar.
• Farts are intrinsically funny, especially when used on official traffic signs in foreign countries.
• Indeed, almost any rude-ish word on a sign is enough to make me giggle. I am such a child.
• The famous FLÅMSBAMA railway is only 22Km long, yet rises well over 800m ((2,700 feet) which makes it one of the steepest 'normal traction' lines in the world.
• Norway has fjords, and this is me cooling cool (cool to the bone) next to the one in Flåm. The unusual colour is genuine. That's the natural light at 10am there.
• On the return journey I passed this sweet little island, complete with boat-house. It must be amazing to live here in the summer!
• There are seven mountains which surround Bergen, and this is the easiest way of getting to the top of the highest one. 70 Krona (about £6.30) well spent!
• Landing at Haugesund airport was something of a weather-based culture shock. Mild but wet blighty had been left behind for this howling snow-storm.
• At the end of a quay in Bergen Harbour is this monument to a man who had something to do with the Shetland Isles. No, I don't know what.
• Near the same spot I make a rather generous effort to look intrepid. I just about pull it off, I think.
• While much of my trip to Norway was conducted at a dash, I did find time to chill next to a fjord. Pun intended - The doctors say they can do nothing for me,
• I never saw the sun in Voss. It never cleared the mountains which surround this winter-sports town. An artistic picture of it trying. Note the frozen fjord.
• Again on my journey back home, I do my best to look warm on a 50 minute ferry trip past majestic snow-covered mountains. I seemed to have failed.
• While on the Flåm railway we paused in the mountains by a waterfall (frozen) for a quick (one might say nippy) photo session.
• Only the Lord knows what this icon of the British way of life was doing in Bergen. There must be quite a story there, I imagine.
• While walking around Bergen on my first night in Norway I spotted Gollem near a church. Can you see him too?
• Not far from Skei -pronounced 'Shy'- which was as far north as I got (N61º 34.260') is this blue-ice glacier, which I went though a tunnel beneath.
• Watch me talking about how cold Norway is in this 1.3Mb 40 second long .AVI video clip.
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