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After catching the early morning train across the stunning Hardangervidda plateau and through Finse with Norway's highest train station, we arrived in Bergen.  The railway is an engineering feat. Starting in the 1870s,  it took 34 years to construct, battling freezing winters, deep snow - and all with a slide rule and hemp rope!  It is 484km long with 17.7 km of tunnels  (182 tunnels in total). The Girls on the train... Hardangervidda plateau Hardangervidda plateau Finse - Norway's highest train station at 1222m - somewhat of a mecca for cycling Arriving to sparkling sunshine and a cloudless sky, we topped the day off with a beer on the patio at Fløyen - at the top of the Fløibanen Funicular... Fløyen - overlooking Bergen and the Byfjorden Now that's pretty nice! Only 3304km to The North Pole Again, our morning runs took us around Bergen checking out the sights without the hoards of tourists.  The tourists (of course, we do n...

Proving the brilliance of our planning (or quite the miracle according to Mum), we all arrived at the luggage carousels within minutes of each other! And thus The 80th Birthday Trip commences!  Our hotel proved central and fabulous with a breakfast buffet fit for the princesses we are! Further to our fine planning, we all arrived with more wine in our luggage than clothes which certainly paid off - wine is excessively expensive in Norway! And so we all meet - thanks for a fancy 'cruising glasses' Suz! Mum wanted to come to Norway to see the fjords she had learnt about in high school geography.  Norway has 1190 fjords and we intend her to see many of them!  To help our quest, we discovered that geologically, a fjord is how we imagine it, a long, narrow saltwater inlet with steep sides created by a glacier.  In Norwegian, however, a fjord has a more general meaning referring to any long, narrow  body of water.  It can even refer to long, narrow lakes....