Geiranger-An Amazing Day

These are the pictures from our amazing day.  The internet is terribly slow and spotty and it is taking hours to write and import pictures, so I will finish the blog when we get home.  I will post a few pictures on instagram each day though.

Molde

 As we walked up from the ship, we came upon an open-air museum of homes from different time periods.  I really liked the grass roofed huts.

 

We started a hike up to the top of a mountain for a view of the Fjord.  It is a steep hike up with no stairs and no switchbacks.  It is so beautiful and lush.

On a clear day you can see 220 peaks.  We saw a lot.  It was pretty cloudy but we had a few rays of sun here and there although it is quite humid when the sun shines.  It was a good 90 minutes up to the top. 

 We had a beautiful sail out of the fjord.  Once on the open sea (Atlantic) we had some pretty good rocking action.  We saw some lonely lighthouses and maybe a whale or two.

Alesund

 We feel like this hot tub is our own.  We rarely see anyone else here.  Most days, we are all alone and we love it.  It is right outside our suite.

We climbed up 422 stairs zig zagging to the top of this hill.  The views from the top are amazing.  

Our cruise ship, the Seabourn Quest.

 We rented this little Raunalt E-car for 2 hours.  We drove all around the two islands making up Aleslund.  We barely fit, and I got a little claustrophobic after 2 hours, but it went on the regular roads and got up to about 60mph.  Mark loved zipping around in it.

 We found an outdoor museum that had old ships and boats.  Of course Mark loved it too.

This was a neat boat docked next to our ship.  We had a great day.  This is one of the largest cities after Oslo, so we figure there aren't that many big cities.