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cpearl: First stop was a 2-hour layover in Reykjavík, Iceland. Didn't leave the airport, but vowed someday to return.
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cpearl: Flying over Iceland
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cpearl: Next stop, Bergen, Norway.
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cpearl: I made it to Bergen.. but my luggage didn't. Why, Bergen, why!
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cpearl: Landing in Ålesund
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cpearl: Loved my hotel in Ålesund (Hotel Brosundet)
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cpearl: View from hotel room in Ålesund. I hiked up to the restaurant you can see in the distance.
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cpearl: Fjord Explorer!
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cpearl: Since my luggage didn't make it, the airline gave me a toiletry bag
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cpearl: View from the top of Mount Aksla (the pit stop for that leg of the Amazing Race). My hotel is the yellow one in the foreground.
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cpearl: Me on the climb up
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cpearl: Loved the colorful boats
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cpearl: It was seeing the trolls that clued me in to the fact it was the town from the Amazing Race...
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cpearl: More trolls
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cpearl: My hotel
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cpearl: I bought some of these Icelandic "lava pebbles" (chocolate, toffee, licorice) at the airport in Iceland. Sooo good.
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cpearl: I watched a TV show that seemed to be about some people talking a walk with some sheep and then coming back and eating waffles. My dream!
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cpearl: The hotel fireplace
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cpearl: On the way home from Norway, another beautiful view from the airport in Reykjavík