Full resolution (JPEG) - On this page / på denna sida - CHAPTER I. Contrasts — Development of Norwegian tourist traffic — Passengers on the ‘Argo,’ and their tub of introduction — Whales — The Norwegian coast — Stavanger — Glacier vestiges in the High Street — Bergen — Indoor ivy — A Church of England Service conducted in the spirit of Primitive Christianity — Northward Ho! — Aalesund — Christiansund — Delay and disappointment — Trondhjem — Northern luxury — The Cathedral — The Falls of the Nid — A terraced valley — Prosperous farmers — The “Störhaus”— Glacial origin of the terraces.
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mounds crop up through the High Street. All
are similarly rounded and polished by ages upon
ages of ancient ice-rubbing.
July 12th.—We reach Bergen at 7 a.m., having
left Hull at midnight of Thursday, and halted
about five hours at Stavanger. We selected this
route rather than the more usual one viâ
Christiania, in order to catch the North-going packet
at Trondhjem in time for the midnight sun.
My experience of both routes decides me to
recommend that by Christiania to all tourists and
sportsmen who are making their first visit to
Norway. Every kind of local information and
assistance are obtainable at Christiania, where there are
good hotels, shops of all kinds, and more especially
Mr. Bennett, to whom every English tourist applies,
and whose untiring courtesy, conscientious advice,
and stores of practical information freely supplied
to all, are invaluable. Bergen being devoted to
the exportation of salt fish and cod-liver oil, is too
busy to attend to tourists.
Our first impressions of Bergen were very
unpleasant. The only available luggage porters
were some low sottish idlers. Two of these,
after wheeling our luggage a very short distance
to the hotel, made an exorbitant demand for
their half-hour’s work, and were very troublesome
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