Posted in Norway Cruise, Trips at 20:00 on 21 September 2018
I just remembered I had more photographs of our trip to Norway to post.
It’s over a year now since we were there.
The red road train here was plying up and down the road while we were walking in Flåm, Norway. Photo taken beside Flåm Church, hence the gravestones:-

The good lady posted photos of Flåm Church – an example of a wooden stavkirke – on her blog here.
The odd sight of this locomotive poking out of a shed is just by the side of the road. It didn’t seem to be part of the Flåmsbana Museum:-

After Flåm the ship departed to cruise Nærøyfjord but had to travel back down Aurlandsfjord first.

These photographs make it look a bit more misty than it felt at the time.
Heading towards Nærøyfjord from Flåm:-

More of Aurlandsfjord:-

Side of Aurlandsfjord, side bow of SS Black Watch in shot:-

Typical wooded slope of fjord:-

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Posted in Norway Cruise, Trips at 20:11 on 1 November 2017
Flåm is situated at the tip of Aurlandsfjord of which the following are views:-



Some villages cling to the flatter areas of the fjordside. This is Undredal:-

Mist on Aurlandsfjord:-

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Posted in Norway Cruise, Trips at 12:00 on 17 October 2017
The fjords in Norway are festooned with waterfalls. This one in Aurlandsfjord was the first thing I saw when I looked out the porthole on the morning we arrived to visit Flåm. I dubbed it “our” waterfall. Click on picture to get to video:-

This moving sculpture was on the dockside at Flåm. Again click on it:-

This is the Bokkefossen, the waterfall we didn’t manage to climb up to, in a photo taken from the road:-

Earlier I’d shot a video:-

A later photo, taken on way back to Flåm, showing the waterfall’s higher portions:-

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Posted in Norway Cruise, Trips at 20:26 on 9 October 2017
First stop on the Norway trip was Flåm, at the top of Aurlandsfjord, Norway. The ship’s daily information sheet said Flåm is pronounced flom, but the (Norwegian) Captain had it somewhere nearer flum than flom.
It was a bit misty and a small city was docked at the quayside.

Due to that small city we were told we would be tendering.
This is the MV Black Watch’s tender:-

We decided to go for a walk round Flåm, actually in search of a waterfall, the Bokkefossen. It was a steep and muddy climb though so we gave that up.
This is the village from above, Aurlandsfjord is off to the left:-

Flåm looking back towards Aurlandsfjord:-

Part of Flåm with Flåm River:-

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