Day 27 - Saturday 1 July

Most of the passengers left the ship this morning and the next group came onboard this afternoon. We walked to the railway station and I took a train to Voss. Anita decided to stay in Bergen. She explored for a while then relaxed on the ship where she spoke with two Australian women, the second mother/daughter team we have met on the ship. Coincidentally when I came back to the ship late in the afternoon and went to the spa, the only other person in the hydro pool turned out to be the daughter from the two women Anita had met earlier.

The train trip to Voss took about an hour and 20 minutes. Half the time was spent travelling through tunnels, while the rest of the trip was scenic, either fjord or river. Apparently the rest of the trip from Bergen to Oslo is one of the most scenic in the world.

Voss is an old town with many hotels for skiers and fans of extreme sports such as skydiving, parasailing, walking tight ropes strung between high buildings etc. There was a large gathering around the lake and eventually I worked out my visit occurred in the middle of the 20th anniversary of extreme sports week or Ekstremsportveko 2017. I saw kayakers paddling upstream in the fast flowing river and white water rafting. This lovely hotel beside the train station is where a tight rope is strung between the tops of the two towers.

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