We always schedule the Norway portion of this trip around Syttende Mai (May 17th, Norway’s Independence Day) so students can see all the parades, celebrations, and traditional dress. The problem is that schools take the day off before and after the 17th just as we do not have school around our national holidays.
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| The View from our Hotel Window |
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| A Tilting Thai Restaurant On the Way to Danielsen Skole |
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| Old Lutheran Cathedral On the Way |
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| Front Door of Danielsen (Danielsen is in a city building so there is no playground area.) |
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| Astrid and Karla |
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| Hope and Britta and Their Flat Stanleys |
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| Old and New Across the Street From Danielsen |
We had made arrangements to visit Danielsen Skole today even though no students would be there. Teachers were at school for workshops, and our host, Astrid Haugestad, took some time over the lunch hour to show us around the school and talk with us about their students and schools in Norway. We ate lunch (a hearty fish and potato soup topped off with a dessert of Jello & crème) with all the teachers and met several who have been to Hillcrest Academy in Fergus Falls. Danielsen has a long relationship with that high school and has exchanged teachers and students there. It was a very informative school visit.
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| A Three-story Spiral Staircase |
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| Danielsen is a Lutheran school and there were a few artistic bible passages in the hallways. |
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| Donna, Hope, Megan & Alli in the Teachers' Lunchroom |
In the afternoon some students found a Laundromat and others went sight-seeing. Karla & I took a bus and then hiked about a mile to visit the home of Edvard Grieg, one of Norway’s most famous composers. He wrote Morning Mood, In the Hall of the Mountain King (both melodies are familiar to just about everyone from their frequent use in movies, television, and commercials), and his Concerto #1 for Piano in A Minor is also very popular.
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| A Small Sidestreet Cafe |
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| Karla at the Cat Humane Society Store |
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| The Bergen train station is right next to the bus station. |
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| Also Inside the Train Station |
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| Cliff-hanging Dwellings On the Hike to Edvard Grieg's Home |
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| Hmm... |
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| Greig's house is at Troldhaugen, which means troll hill. |
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| The Lane to Troldhaugen |
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| Grieg's House |
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| Garden Path |
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| A turf-roofed concert hall on the left, Grieg's composing hut in the center, and a statue of Edvard Grieg on the right |
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| Spiral Staricase to the Cellar (Before they told me no photos are allowed inside the house.) |
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| The Lake Below Troldhaugen |
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| Karla on the Path to Grieg's Composing Hut |
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| Turf-roofed Concert Hall from the Other Side |
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| Houses on the Mountain Across from Troldhaugen |
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| Back in Bergen, Another Side Street |
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| Across from the Fish Market |
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| Restaurants |
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