Travel Norway: Ekeberg Sculpture Park is Oslo’s New Tourist Attraction
Travel Norway: Ekeberg Sculpture Park is Oslo’s New Tourist Attraction WAVEJourney’s first visit to Oslo (Norway’s capital) in 2012 only whetted our appetite to return and explore much more. Now there will be a new tourist attraction to add to our already long list of things to do when we again visit Oslo. On September […]
WJ Tested: Travel Tip Norway – Ride The Rauma Railway
WJ Tested: Travel Tip Norway – Ride The Rauma Railway By Jill Hoelting, Photos by Vivienne Chapleo Even though Thomas the Tank Engine wasn’t a popular storybook tale in my youth, my love of trains was big. My grandfather was an engineer on the iron horses clickety-clacking their way through Illinois in the mid-1900s, and […]
WAVEJourney Travel Tips for Norway – Exploring Oslo
WAVEJourney Travel Tips for Norway – Exploring Oslo Situated at the head of Oslofjord, Oslo touts itself as the Capital of Culture and Nature. As Norway’s capital, it is the largest city with a population of approximately 600,000. Including the greater Oslo region, the population bumps up to around 1million. Oslo is both the country’s […]
Exploring Norway’s Fjord Region – Geiranger to Alesund
Exploring Norway’s Fjord Region – Geiranger to Alesund By Vivienne Chapleo, photos by Jill Hoelting Continued from previous page – Solvorn to Geiranger Geiranger to Alesund: Today the sun finally broke through, and although we had good intentions of getting an early start for our 110 km drive to Alesund, the Geirangerfjord views from the […]
Exploring Norway’s Fjord Region – Solvorn to Geiranger
Exploring Norway’s Fjord Region – Solvorn to Geiranger By Vivienne Chapleo, photos by Jill Hoelting Continued from previous page – Flam to Solvorn Solvorn to Lom – National Tourist Route Sognefjellet: On our scenic drive from Solvorn to Geiranger we took the National Tourist Route Sognefjellet, and crossed Northern Europe’s highest pass – at […]
Exploring Norway’s Fjord Region – Flam to Solvorn
Exploring Norway’s Fjord Region – Flam to Solvorn By Vivienne Chapleo, photos by Jill Hoelting Flam to Solvorn – National Tourist Route: After we completed our buffet breakfast at the Fretheim Hotel, it was time to depart and we started the drive to Solvorn. We first drove 8 km along Aurlandsfjord to Aurland, then continued […]
Exploring Norway’s Fjord Region – Bergen to Flam
Exploring Norway’s Fjord Region – Bergen to Flam By Viv Chapleo, photos by Jill Hoelting Backpacking around Europe for a few weeks during the summer of 1987, I made the split-second decision in Amsterdam to take the train south into France instead of going north to Scandinavia. In all those years, I’ve returned to France […]
WAVEJourney Travel Tips for Norway – Exploring Bergen
WAVEJourney Travel Tips for Norway – Exploring Bergen Bergen is Norway’s second-largest city (Oslo is the largest) with a population approaching 270,000 in the municipality and nearly 400,000 in Greater Bergen. Known as “The Gateway to the Fjords of Norway”, Bergen’s city center actually faces a fjord – Byfjorden. Bergen Port, hugely popular with cruise […]
WAVEJourney Travel Tips: Discover Norway’s Fjord Region
WAVEJourney Travel Tips: Discover Norway’s Fjord Region Fancy a fjord? There is no better place to start exploring than in Bergen, Norway. Dubbed “The Gateway to the Fjords of Norway”, Bergen is the perfect jumping off spot for a Western Norway adventure. WAVE Journey enjoyed eight full days on the ground in Norway this summer. […]
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March 2019 Travel Tips and Tales Newsletter
March 2019 Travel Tips and Tales Newsletter By WAVEJourney Greetings! Spring is here in the Northern Hemisphere and WJ has big travel plans! How about you? Chat with us and let us know where you’re going, what you’re doing, and ask for the advice and travel tips you need to enhance your adventures. After a […]
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