Bergen, Norway

We then traveled by air to Bergen, the second largest city in Norway. It is a port city of about 250,000 people, and during the middle ages was used by the Hanseatic League which established several trading houses here to buy salted herring and timber to be shipped to Germany. The original wooden trading houses are still here, repaired over the centuries. It is now a port for the North Sea Oil Production. N orway is the third largest oil exporter in the world, and only has 4,500,000 people, so the government has no debt and can make lots of capital improvements. It is a "cradle to grave" socialistic form of government so they have lots of expenses also. It is a beautiful country of fjords, seas, lakes, rivers, and woods.

Copenhagen, Denmark

The pictures are not coming out right with the text, so please bear with me.

Well, here we are at the Airport ready to leave on our trip to Denmark. We left our car at Diamond Parking so it would not be out on the street at home while Larry Izzi worked on the basement, becaujse he needed the driveway to unload equipment and materials. We had a four to six hour flight to Atlanta, and a two hour lay over and then a ten hour flight to Copenhagen. I thought it was interesting that so many people were exercising in Denmark.

I think I will just add some photos, and try to edit them and add text when we get home.