Fjord Cruise

On Saturday a number of the international students set out on a fjord cruise that had been set up by Buddy Bergen, a student organisation which matches up international students with Norwegian students so that we might integrate ourselves a bit better and learn a bit more about all things Norwegian. However, the Norwegian students were never sent the registration details for the trip, so it was just the international students in the end - epic fail.

Setting off from Bergen

Our destination was Modalen on Osterøy, a four hour journey away, but we had plenty of nice scenery to look at, so we didn't mind, and when we got a bit cold we just hugged the boat's exhaust pipe, naturally.

Sara trying to regain the sensation in her fingertips

They gave us a ridiculously hard quiz to do in case we got bored (how are we supposted to remember what the precipitation level in Bergen is? We just know it's abnormally high), and then threw us some lunch, which included this delightful vegetarian option:

Finally we landed in Modalen, only to be told that we had to be back on the boat in 25 minutes. I don't think some people even bothered getting off after they heard that. We just about had time to scurry our way across to the bottom of a waterfall that Sara wanted to take some photos of before we had to run back again.

Our boat, moored in Modalen

The waterfall that we had spotted from the boat

The four hour journey back again was somewhat more tedious. Everyone was tired and there was a lot more huddling around cups of bad coffee. However, the scenery was still lovely so we tried to stay outside as long as possible.