{"id":1044,"date":"2011-07-21T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-21T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bernies-journeys.at\/?p=1044"},"modified":"2014-01-19T13:01:06","modified_gmt":"2014-01-19T12:01:06","slug":"bergen-die-stadt-des-regens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bernies-journeys.at\/en\/2011\/07\/21\/bergen-die-stadt-des-regens\/","title":{"rendered":"Bergen, the City of Rain?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><span xml:lang=\"no\" lang=\"no\">Bergen<\/span> ist known to be the rain captial of Norway (if not the whole world). During my stay this year, however, I was exceptionally lucky with the weather.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>All in all, I have spent almost a week in <span xml:lang=\"no\" lang=\"no\">Bergen<\/span>, as we could stay here with a friend of my travel companion. So, we explored the city and its surroundings a bit.<\/p>\n<div class=\"center\">\n  <div class=\"breit wp-caption\">\n  <div class=\"breit_li\">\n  <p class=\"image\">\n   <a href=\"..\/..\/..\/..\/regions\/europe\/norge\/hordaland\/index_06.htm\" class=\"lightbox-link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"img288x192\" src=\"..\/..\/..\/..\/regions\/europe\/norge\/hordaland\/thumb\/11.jpg\" width=\"288\" height=\"192\" alt=\"[Picture]\" title=\"Permanenten\" \/><\/a>\n  <\/p>\n  <p class=\"wp-caption-text\">\n   <span xml:lang=\"no\" lang=\"no\">Permanenten<\/span>\n  <\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"breit_re\">\n  <p class=\"image\">\n   <a href=\"..\/..\/..\/..\/regions\/europe\/norge\/hordaland\/index_07.htm\" class=\"lightbox-link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"img288x192\" src=\"..\/..\/..\/..\/regions\/europe\/norge\/hordaland\/thumb\/12.jpg\" width=\"288\" height=\"192\" alt=\"[Picture]\" title=\"Domkirke\" \/><\/a>\n  <\/p>\n  <p class=\"wp-caption-text\">\n   <span xml:lang=\"no\" lang=\"no\">Domkirke<\/span>\n  <\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"clear\">\n\n  <\/div>\n   <div class=\"panorama wp-caption single-image\">\n  <p class=\"image\">\n   <a href=\"..\/..\/..\/..\/regions\/europe\/norge\/hordaland\/index_08.htm\" class=\"lightbox-link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"img432x192\" src=\"..\/..\/..\/..\/regions\/europe\/norge\/hordaland\/thumb\/13.jpg\" width=\"432\" height=\"192\" alt=\"[Picture]\" title=\"View of Bergen from Fl&oslash;yen\" \/><\/a>\n  <\/p>\n  <p class=\"wp-caption-text\">\n   View of <span xml:lang=\"no\" lang=\"no\">Bergen<\/span> from <span xml:lang=\"no\" lang=\"no\">Fl&oslash;yen<\/span>\n  <\/p>\n  <\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n  <div class=\"breit_re wp-caption alignright single-image\">\n  <p class=\"image\">\n   <a href=\"..\/..\/..\/..\/regions\/europe\/norge\/hordaland\/index_09.htm\" class=\"lightbox-link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"img288x192\" src=\"..\/..\/..\/..\/regions\/europe\/norge\/hordaland\/thumb\/14.jpg\" width=\"288\" height=\"192\" alt=\"[Picture]\" title=\"Bergen\" \/><\/a>\n  <\/p>\n  <\/div>\n\n<p>For example, I visited the popular viewpoint on <span xml:lang=\"no\" lang=\"no\">Fl&oslash;yen<\/span> hill. Furthermore, we went on a day hike to (another) viewpoint at <span xml:lang=\"no\" lang=\"no\">Ulriken<\/span> and over the <span xml:lang=\"no\" lang=\"no\">Vidden<\/span> plateau. Apart from a short (but quite heavy) rainfall during this hike, we mostly enjoyed blue skies and sunshine, which is <em>very<\/em> atypical of <span xml:lang=\"no\" lang=\"no\">Bergen<\/span>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"center\">\n  <div class=\"mixed_2to3 wp-caption\">\n  <div class=\"breit_li\">\n  <p class=\"image\">\n   <a href=\"..\/..\/..\/..\/regions\/europe\/norge\/hordaland\/index_10.htm\" class=\"lightbox-link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"img288x192\" src=\"..\/..\/..\/..\/regions\/europe\/norge\/hordaland\/thumb\/15.jpg\" width=\"288\" height=\"192\" alt=\"[Picture]\" title=\"View of Bergen from Ulriken\" \/><\/a>\n  <\/p>\n  <p class=\"wp-caption-text\">\n   View of <span xml:lang=\"no\" lang=\"no\">Bergen<\/span> from <span xml:lang=\"no\" lang=\"no\">Ulriken<\/span>\n  <\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"hoch_re\">\n  <p class=\"image\">\n   <a href=\"..\/..\/..\/..\/regions\/europe\/norge\/hordaland\/index_11.htm\" class=\"lightbox-link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"img192x288\" src=\"..\/..\/..\/..\/regions\/europe\/norge\/hordaland\/thumb\/16.jpg\" width=\"192\" height=\"288\" alt=\"[Picture]\" title=\"Ulriken\" \/><\/a>\n  <\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"clear\">\n\n  <\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n  <div class=\"hoch_li wp-caption alignleft single-image\">\n  <p class=\"image\">\n   <a href=\"..\/..\/..\/..\/regions\/europe\/norge\/hordaland\/index_12.htm\" class=\"lightbox-link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"img192x192\" src=\"..\/..\/..\/..\/regions\/europe\/norge\/hordaland\/thumb\/17.jpg\" width=\"192\" height=\"192\" alt=\"[Picture]\" title=\"Fantoft Stave Church\" \/><\/a>\n  <\/p>\n  <p class=\"wp-caption-text\">\n   <span xml:lang=\"no\" lang=\"no\">Fantoft<\/span> Stave Church\n  <\/p>\n  <\/div>\n\n<p>Finally, we also had a rental car with which we explored the surroundings a bit: After a short visit to the stave church of <span xml:lang=\"no\" lang=\"no\">Fantoft<\/span> south of <span xml:lang=\"no\" lang=\"no\">Bergen<\/span>, we continued to the islands off the <span xml:lang=\"no\" lang=\"no\">Bergen<\/span> coast. On one of them, <span xml:lang=\"no\" lang=\"no\">Sotra<\/span>, we climbed the highest mountain of the island, <span xml:lang=\"no\" lang=\"no\">Liat&aring;rnet<\/span> (which is 341&nbsp;meters high). Finally, we discovered the quaint village of <span xml:lang=\"no\" lang=\"no\">Hagenes<\/span> closeby.<\/p>\n<div class=\"center\">\n  <div class=\"breit wp-caption\">\n  <div class=\"breit_li\">\n  <p class=\"image\">\n   <a href=\"..\/..\/..\/..\/regions\/europe\/norge\/hordaland\/index_13.htm\" class=\"lightbox-link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"img288x192\" src=\"..\/..\/..\/..\/regions\/europe\/norge\/hordaland\/thumb\/18.jpg\" width=\"288\" height=\"192\" alt=\"[Picture]\" title=\"Liat&aring;rnet\" \/><\/a>\n  <\/p>\n  <p class=\"wp-caption-text\">\n   <span xml:lang=\"no\" lang=\"no\">Liat&aring;rnet<\/span>\n  <\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"breit_re\">\n  <p class=\"image\">\n   <a href=\"..\/..\/..\/..\/regions\/europe\/norge\/hordaland\/index_14.htm\" class=\"lightbox-link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"img288x192\" src=\"..\/..\/..\/..\/regions\/europe\/norge\/hordaland\/thumb\/19.jpg\" width=\"288\" height=\"192\" alt=\"[Picture]\" title=\"Hagenes\" \/><\/a>\n  <\/p>\n  <p class=\"wp-caption-text\">\n   <span xml:lang=\"no\" lang=\"no\">Hagenes<\/span>\n  <\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"clear\">\n\n  <\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bergen ist known to be the rain captial of Norway (if not the whole world). During my stay this year, however, I was exceptionally lucky with the weather.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1461,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[139,141,60,85],"class_list":["post-1044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel-diary","tag-europe","tag-scandinavia","tag-city-sights","tag-unesco-world-heritage","country-no"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bernies-journeys.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bernies-journeys.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bernies-journeys.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bernies-journeys.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bernies-journeys.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bernies-journeys.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bernies-journeys.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bernies-journeys.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bernies-journeys.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bernies-journeys.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}