Bergen; Saturday, 01 August, 2015

Rested and breakfasted we checked out of the hotel and wandered round to the tourist information centre to pick up the City Sightseeing tour bus. The tour buses are open-top, but given the weather in Bergen the retractable roof probably spends most of its life locked in the closed position, as it was today given the forecast for later in the afternoon wasn’t good.

We did a full tour round before getting off at the back of the Bryggen and having a bit of a wander. Then with slightly rumbling tummies, and with not much left to do in town, we caught the funicular up to Mount Fløyen to visit the café up there for coffee and cake.

We spent quite a bit of time up there, leaving the café in time to watch that afternoons Hurtigruten arrival down in the harbour – today it was the largest ship the Finnmarken and the noise of its horn reverberating around the mountains was quite impressive.

Back down in town we picked up the hop-on-hop-off bus with the intention of just taking it round to the fish market, but at this point the skies opened and in the end we sat out a massive downpour on two full rounds of the tour.

By the time the rain had finally stopped we were almost back at the hotel so we hopped off, grabbed our bags and picked up the Flybussen out to the airport arriving just in time for checkin to open.