{"id":433,"date":"2016-07-04T17:08:26","date_gmt":"2016-07-04T21:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/?p=433"},"modified":"2016-08-07T02:42:07","modified_gmt":"2016-08-07T06:42:07","slug":"july-4-bergen-norway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/2016\/07\/04\/july-4-bergen-norway\/","title":{"rendered":"July 4: Bergen, Norway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two years ago, when we were in Bergen, Norway, I went back to the ship early because it was too hot.\u00a0 I wrote in our blog: \u201cBe careful what you wish for, you might get it!\u201d referring to the sunny, hot weather.\u00a0 This year we went back to the ship early because of rain.\u00a0 Before the rain started, however, we went up the <em>Mount Fl\u00f8ien<\/em>\u00a0funicular, one of the main attractions of Bergen.\u00a0 There was a waiting line, but not nearly as long as two years ago when there was also a tall ships event in town and the crowds were horrendous. \u00a0I skipped it then.\u00a0 This morning it was cool and visibility from <em>Mount Fl\u00f8ien<\/em>\u00a0was excellent, probably better than two years ago when it was hazy.<\/p>\n<p>But around lunch time the rain came.\u00a0 We made our way down, stopped in a caf\u00e9 to have a small lunch in the hope it would stop, but finally we just walked back to the ship in the rain.\u00a0 Still, we were lucky to get to the mountain before the rain, and all-in-all I found this visit to Bergen to be more enjoyable than two years ago. \u00a0When we left Bergen harbor we sailed out from under the rain and into the late day sun on the Atlantic from where we could see the rain clouds still hanging over Bergen.<\/p>\n<p>Today is Independence Day at home.\u00a0 Our ship is decorated with American flags.\u00a0 Happy 4<sup>th<\/sup> every one!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two years ago, when we were in Bergen, Norway, I went back to the ship early because it was too hot.\u00a0 I wrote in our blog: \u201cBe careful what you wish for, you might get it!\u201d referring to the sunny, hot weather.\u00a0 This year we went back to the ship early because of rain.\u00a0 Before &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/2016\/07\/04\/july-4-bergen-norway\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;July 4: Bergen, Norway&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-cruise"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":570,"href":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions\/570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}