Tomorrow morning I depart from Bergen via the Flesland airport. I’ll land in London for a few hour layover, and then begin the final leg of my journey via flight to Seattle, where I’ll arrive around 5:00 pm. I’m feeling very bittersweet about ending my travels in Bergen. In a way, I feel as if […]
Author: Andrew M.
As of tomorrow, I will have been in Bergen for four weeks. It’s an amazing thing to have been in a new place for so long, yet I’m starting to lose perception of how I’ve been here. On the one hand, it feels as though I arrived yesterday, while on the other it feels as […]
I have just passed my halfway point in my trip to Bergen. While I would have thought that I would be worried about having to go home, I feel as though I’m starting to feel somewhat at home here. I can recognize the grocery attendant at the local grocer. My uncle and I have somewhat […]
Now that I have settled into the city of Bergen, I am finding that it is easier to make connections and that the city is seeming more and more friendly. The growth of friendliness seems to lie within my gained knowledge of more of the customs here and that I am simply becoming more and […]
Greetings from Hop! Bergen is absolutely fantastic. I am staying about 10 km south of Bergen in a small neighborhood called Hop. I have already been quite busy with lots of different activities in the city, and will be going to Bryggen, Bergen’s historical waterfront district, later today. I have been lucky enough to see […]
Unlike last week, I did not underline this piece of the text in my first read-through of Alain de Botton’s novel, The Art of Travel. I was, however, drawn to William Wordsworth’s sentiment of having spent “half his boyhood in running wild among mountains” (de Botton 131). I find this activity to be highly attractive, as it […]
I underlined this exact line on my first read-through of this novel. It’s quite funny how little lines like this can ignite so much fascination and thought. Often when traveling, I find myself to be blankly staring out the window of the car, hundreds of different thought flashing before my eyes. In Alain de Botton’s […]
This is not so much a detailing of what I need to do before I leave, but a general piece on my preconceptions and experience with Norway in the past and my plans for while I’m there. I’ve been to Bergen before and loved it. However, the last time I was there, I was only […]