Hurtigruten; Saturday, 09 February, 2013

After breakfast and checkout we wandered down into town and picked up the trolley bus out to the cable car.

When I’d visited Bergen previously the Cable car had been out of action due to high winds, but today with a clear blue sky and barely a breath of wind it was running, albeit incredibly busy with people taking it to the top of Ulriken mountain to go skiing.

Having taken in the views from the top we descended in a considerably less packed car and then back into town. A quick wander round to the Bryggen museum and a stop for a cup of coffee, then the Håkon Hall and the fortress museum before running out of things to do as by that point all the museums were closing, but there were still several hours before we needed to be at the airport.

We caught the funicular back up to the top of mount Fløyen and popped into the restaurant up there for a late afternoon snack and hot chocolate. Fløyen was, if anything, busier than Ulriken with skiers and winter hikers so it took some time to get the funicular back down, which thankfully killed the final amount of time that we had so it was back to the hotel to collect luggage and then over to the airport and the flight home.