Bergen is the second largest city in Norway (Oslo being the largest). It has 250,000 people who live here. I really couldn't figure out what industry was here for the people to work, but their unemployment is super low so there must be something.
We got off the ship this morning around 10 and took a city tour and that tour would eventually stop at an Ice Bar.
It was raining so hard this morning we really couldn't get any good photos from the bus, plus Bergen isn't overly interesting. There's not a lot of history here. The one piece of history they do have is this is where the Black Plague started in Norway.
Some town folk saw this boat adrift and decided to bring it in. All on board were dead, but there was still food. Thinking they no longer needed said food, which was grain, they brought it into town. The grain, of course had rats in it who had fleas that were carrying the plague. The rest, as they say, is history. The plague wiped out 50% of Norway's population.
The best part of today was the stop at the Magic Ice Bar. An entire bar made of solid blocks of ice. It's sub-zero in the bar so they give you gloves and parkas to wear inside. Thank god they did or I would have froze. It was so cool (pardon the pun) inside. They poured us a welcome drink from a bottle called Frost - I'm still trying to find it on the Internet. Our tour guide said it was 20% alcohol but it really didn't taste that strong. Whatever it was, it certainly warmed us up.
Back on the boat, we're spending the afternoon just laying around and trying to keep warm. Did I mention it was cold today? When we got on the bus it was 45F. But the wind...sheesh...it was cold.
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