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OCTOBER 2006 : NORWAY
Pin in front of the Royal Palace, Oslo
Yep, that good ol' Royal Palace again
Obligatory silly hats on the Palace guards
Vigeland Sculpture Park, Oslo: he's got a nice pair, eh?
Ah, the joys of fatherhood - or is he intent on drowning her?
Fighting or playing?
Losers can win!
I'd be miserable if I was his size...
Oh, Okey Kokey Kokey...
Bad hair day?
Great shot, huh?
'Ere, give us a hand, mate - this weighs a bloody ton!
This reminds me of brocolli...
The dynamic adventurer himself, before Gustav Vigeland's masterpiece, apparently the largest sculpture hewn from a single rock in the world
Some sculptures and some tourists - can you tell which is which?
What are these two doing?
Vigeland was an equal opportunities kind of guy - he also sculpted old crusties. I had to put a token bit of young Nordic crumpet in just to balance it out...
He's just found out how much a beer costs in Norway...
From Oslo harbour to the Old Fort
Two philosophical dudes discuss 16th century church architecture in the grounds of the Old Fort...or?
Evidence of Norway's state of the art naval technology...
She likes the big guns of the Old Fort(!)
...and so does he
Our hotel room
Reflections in Oslo harbour
OK, there's a joke in there somewhere, but we'd better not go there, eh? The folklore museum in Bigdoy, Oslo
The lines, the symmetry, the colours...ah!
Dolly, an inmate of the folklore museum
Another view of our hotel
An old stave church, this one not yet burnt down by death metal fans
The Viking Ship Museum, Bigdoy, Oslo: one of these is more than a thousand years old...
Our heroic tour guide once again...
Cheer up, you miserable sod, you're supposed to be on holiday!
Central Oslo at night
More of the same
Oslo university at night
Andy races to make it to the toilet on time in Bergen, on Norway's North Sea coast
Our stunning modern boutique hotel in Bergen
Bergen's Brygge district of Hanseatic warehouses, a World Heritage Site
Pin + Brygge
An old church on the way to Bergen's funicular railway station up the mountain
Bergen - a splendid panorama
The same, plus Pin
The same, with your humble photographer
The houses in the foreground are real, although they look like models
The great leader composes himself before making an epic speech to the citizens of Bergen
The flag of Mozambique proudly flying over Bergen
Pin about to be squashed by a runaway giant cog wheel...
Probably a church - whaddya think?
This one was tricky to take - had to jiggle the apperture and experiment a bit...
A fine piece of graffiti!
Traditional wooden houses in central Bergen
More of 'em
And still more - is there no end to the buggers?
The scenic Flam railway and its rotund but cheery conductor...
Steep-sided valleys and small hamlets characteristic of rural Norway
A seagull following the ferry from Flam to Gudvangen along tributaries of Sognefjord
Scenes from the Naeroyfjord
More of the same
Yet more...
German tourist dons traditional Norwegian headgear. Yes, it was bloody cold on the fjords
You can feel the cold int hsi shot of the Naeroyfjord
Pin - that cheap Uniqlo jacket ain't going to provide much warmth!
Ahoy there, shipmates! Our intrepid leader once again
Towering mountains behind the tourist traps in Flam
Our great leader prepares to address the citizens of Norway from the mind-buggeringly high Stalheim Hotel between Gudvangen and Voss
Another view from the Hotel garden
This photo doesn't really convey how high up we were, nor how sheer the drop behind the low metal fence that was all that stood between us and oblivion...
Shagged out in the splendid Augustin Hotel in Bergen
The great train journey from Bergen...
...taking a leisurely seven hours through the barren but awe-inspiring Hardanger Plateau...
...past the occasional glacier until bringing us back to Oslo once more.
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