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flaneurs2012-07-01 10:29 pm
mummimamma) wrote in flaneurs2012-07-01 10:29 pm
June challenge IIa - along the (light) rail tracks in Bergen
This is my June challenge, posted a day late - I needed to buy a new computer to upload the pictures first! So I did the challenge of starting from a railway terminus. I did a small change to it, since the railway goes straight into a 700 metres high mountain (and it's not a "hikers" community after all), so I followed the light rail tracks instead. And then I could go the whole distance, from terminus to terminus. Almost 12 kilometres on foot. The light rail is just two years old, and everybody here in Bergen is very proud of it. When it came everybody I mean everybody - had to take it to the terminus and back again. And a lot of my friends with little children still do, as a part of a Sunday outing.
Here is the map of the light rail route
And here is the map of my walk
And here we start at the terminus:
This is what the light rail looks like:
Along the road I found a nicely restored old petrol station
And fifty metres down the road, a not so nicely restored one
Florida is a place in Bergen, Norway, in case you didn't know.
When they built the light rail they also ordered a lot of fancy art to go along with it. This one of the last pieces; at the water's edge, finished just a week before I walked past.
I kind of like this too; Neptune like to hang under bridges, and he's getting pretty old too, since he's waving with his crutch, not his trident.
And then the railway and I parted for a while, and I got to walk around in places I've only seen from the bus/car/railway
A real pizza hut!
Pretty views along the way.
And then I came to Fantoft, where the students live, which is obvious from the architecture...
On Fantoft there is also a stavkirke Stave Church, old Norwegian style church (although this is only a couple years old since the old one was burned down in 1992 by Varg Vikernes)
And here is the sign for it... But what are all the colourful dots?
I actually laughed out loud when I saw this: It's the little stickers that the tourists get when they're at Troldhaugen, the home of the composer Edvard Grieg. Obviously tourists first go to Troldhaugen, and then to the stave church.
And here is the stave church:
And after the church, I, symbolically enough spent about 20 minutes getting lost in a small wood, and then walking in the wrong direction, but finally I found the rails again, and even more symbolically, I was in Paradis(e).
What do they do in Paradis? I don't know, but they sure have a lot of black Mercedeses!
The last stretch was along the main road, and pretty boring, although the view over the lake was pretty pretty.
And somebody had made a house for their pet (It says Nesttun(place-name) road 71B, Here lives "Pinken"), I'm not quite sure which kind of animal though, cat or rabbit I guess.
And finally, the end station at Nesttun. As you may see, the terminus seems a bit temporary, and currently they are working on the continuation of the line, perhaps I should go rambling along that one day as well.
The trip out took two and a half hours (including break for ice cream), the trip back took 24 minutes.
Here is the map of the light rail route
And here is the map of my walk
And here we start at the terminus:
This is what the light rail looks like:
Along the road I found a nicely restored old petrol station
And fifty metres down the road, a not so nicely restored one
Florida is a place in Bergen, Norway, in case you didn't know.
When they built the light rail they also ordered a lot of fancy art to go along with it. This one of the last pieces; at the water's edge, finished just a week before I walked past.
I kind of like this too; Neptune like to hang under bridges, and he's getting pretty old too, since he's waving with his crutch, not his trident.
And then the railway and I parted for a while, and I got to walk around in places I've only seen from the bus/car/railway
A real pizza hut!
Pretty views along the way.
And then I came to Fantoft, where the students live, which is obvious from the architecture...
On Fantoft there is also a stavkirke Stave Church, old Norwegian style church (although this is only a couple years old since the old one was burned down in 1992 by Varg Vikernes)
And here is the sign for it... But what are all the colourful dots?
I actually laughed out loud when I saw this: It's the little stickers that the tourists get when they're at Troldhaugen, the home of the composer Edvard Grieg. Obviously tourists first go to Troldhaugen, and then to the stave church.
And here is the stave church:
And after the church, I, symbolically enough spent about 20 minutes getting lost in a small wood, and then walking in the wrong direction, but finally I found the rails again, and even more symbolically, I was in Paradis(e).
What do they do in Paradis? I don't know, but they sure have a lot of black Mercedeses!
The last stretch was along the main road, and pretty boring, although the view over the lake was pretty pretty.
And somebody had made a house for their pet (It says Nesttun(place-name) road 71B, Here lives "Pinken"), I'm not quite sure which kind of animal though, cat or rabbit I guess.
And finally, the end station at Nesttun. As you may see, the terminus seems a bit temporary, and currently they are working on the continuation of the line, perhaps I should go rambling along that one day as well.
The trip out took two and a half hours (including break for ice cream), the trip back took 24 minutes.
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I didn't know Florida is in Norway! :-)
I LOVE the mirror/sky/water sculpture. I wonder what it'll look like if nature is allowed to try to reclaim it a little. Neptune is my favourite of your views though. \o/
Tourists stick their entry stickers to signs outside the Natural History Museum in London too. I wonder if there's a reason beyond the obvious. I suppose I should look in a tourist guide book to find out, heh.
Thank you for sharing your walk. I enjoyed it. :-)
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