Hurtigruten Journey

The oldest part of the city, a UNESCO heritage sight

A view from up above the city
An 11th century Stave church on the outskirts of the city

For the next week or so I thought I would post pictures from our journey along the Norwegian coast with excerpts from my daily journal as well as quotes from the books I was reading along the way. How wonderful to sit on deck, drinking tea and looking at such spectacular vistas. Spending a lot of time reading Dogen this year http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C5%8Dgen, I brought along a book entitled "Each Moment is the Universe: Zen and the Way of Being Time" by Dainin Katagiri. I read a bit each morning and the thoughts there also 'colored' my sight.



We flew from Frankfurt to Bergen and were in the city for a day and a half before we boarded our Hurtigruten ship, the Polarlys, meaing "Polar Light" in Norwegian. Here were my thoughts on that day and a few pictures of Bergen and a link to info about the city: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bergen .



"How time moves---how thing change. Arriving in Bergen---flying above clouds---seeing expanses of water, all hues of blue, a blue reainbow, blue light prisimed into more blue and blue. Suddenly small swirls of islands and then a fjord opening up and out and then the city. Clouds rise and roll and give away of themselves with water and water and water---wind---and sun---an 11th century church---stones slowly washing away---wind blown, rain beaten. This church seven times burnt down to the ground and then raised again. Stone upon stone. Everything changing---falling apart---rising again and again...time:

flow..."