Visual storyteller and forager living in the countryside of southern Norway
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Hi,i loved your video. I've been to Bergen ten days ago and i loved it. How can you describe Bryggen to a tourist? What is the most important to know about it?
Du har sikkert nevnt dette i en video eller noe, men hvordan begynte du å bli interessert i sanking? Hvor begynte du å lære fra? Bøker? Nettet? Noe du anbefaler?
Oslo starts to be the same. Not as beautiful tho but weather speaking. Second year of rainy summer.
It looks like you had fun. You have a good friendship with your friend. You did 3 of the things I like. Visiting cafes, swimming in the ocean💗 & walking in the park in the rain. I love Bergen. Not so keen on all the rain but it's ok as long as your dressed for it. The rainy days do allow you to slow down & sit in cosy cafes watching the rain fall
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I loved being with you like I was walking together with 2 amazing girls who were sharing the most beautiful and authentic places of Bergen!! Video turned to be so alive, sometimes dramatic 😂😂, thank you sooo much ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️rain made the atmosphere even more fairy tale like 🍃💦🌹
So glad you liked it! Thank you too for watching <3 <3
Would you be my local guide on 21 October. My family visiting Bergen
Sorry I do not work as a guide :-). But I hope my videos can give you some ideas of where to go!
I live in Hammerfest, hope you enjoyed! You should visit during the summertime and midnight sun 🤩🩷
I would love to go back! Next time <3 <3
Your videos made me fall in love with Bergen too 😂
This fragment was the best! ❤❤❤
Thank you for the nice tour of Bergen ❤ and for the bubbly energy, perfect counter balance for any rainy day😅
Any time <3 <3 so glad you liked it. The fun we had totally outweighed the rain for us too
No no, there is no ice so the two of you didn't fully proved to be Norwegians 🎉😊. Have a good time together!
Next time!
❤...a Valkyrja...
Darn - didn't realize that Bergen had a Natural History museum - definitely will check it out next time I visit. Harvard college's Natural History museum is worth a visit if you're ever in the Boston area. It too has the incredible whale skeletons which inspire awe. A curator there once pointed to the oil spots on the wooden floor, even after 100+ years, the bones still drip. Thanks for your videos.
It occurs to me that my comment may sound a bit gruesome and in some ways it is. Whenever I've visited the HNH I'm both fascinated with all the fauna on exhibit (hundreds and hundreds of different birds) and also sickened at the thought of all those creatures being destroyed for a collection. Another tidbit from the curator was that the average height of giraffes went down as they were hunted and collected, the tallest being prized. (Giraffes are tall, some almost 6 meters!) And yet the collection is so beautiful. It's weird how one can have opposite feelings at once. A Norwegian connection: as an exchange student living with a norwegian family, I enjoyed many excursions to Hardangervidda and I would help my 'brother' collect wild flowers for his 2nd year Gymnas project, it was fun, educational, a way to be one with nature. In retrospect, I was pleased to learn that this type of project is no longer a part of the curriculum. Very small steps taken to try to understand our species place on this planet.
Hahah, that sounds slightly creepy museum indeed. I actually wonder if I have been there. I remember visiting a similar museum in Boston. But I don't remember any whales so maybe I am mixing it up. I totally agree that one can feel different things about it. At least these collections have educational value and hopefully help us learn more about animals and birds. I feel like that is meaningful at least. I have heard about this way of educating students about nature and I think its so cool! Too bad they don't do it as much anymore. I do similar things in my workshops when I travel to schools, but it would be even better if it was a normal part of the curriculum.
So nice to meet Anna today and see her wonderful artwork 🥰
How cool that you visited! <3
I'm from Vancouver Canada. Same weather and mountains. Sounds just like here. I'd love to visit Bergen
I really enjoyed visiting Bergen last month, and i love rain (im from Seattle).. amazingly, it didn't rain the few days we were there, but I would have enjoyed it either way!
Yes sometimes it shows up with it's beautiful sun-suit on! Both are lovely. Glad you had a good time :-)
Greetings from Whidbey Island in western Washington, USA! Also known for our rain!
Greetings :-)!
Yeay ! What a lovely video. I actually didn't know that Bergen was renowned for being so rainy, though I suppose it makes sense given its location. It's definitely on my list of places to visit (the one that got away on my last trip to Norway all those years ago !). Whenever I do visit I will definitely make a note to also visit Anna's shop....mainly because I'd like a selfie with Bhoomi ! Well done for making a wet day look like so much fun.
Thank you :-). Yes both Stavanger and Bergen are renowned for it, but it still is worse in Bergen because of the surrounding mountains that trap all the clouds in over the city. I hope you get to go there and take a selfie with Bhoomi <3
❤...from time to time I need to see a "Valkyrja", a Valkyrie... I have to grab this old video of Yours...
Wow, I am glad you think about it that way :-)
I recently moved from Dublin to Bergen, thus, I had experiences of rainy life. But, I heard a lot of Bergen rain and complaints, today I went to a cafe and as usual it was raining and I was telling myself, I really need to make a good relationship with rain and started to enjoy it without hearing other people's complaints! Surprisingly, your video came to my suggestion on the same day! It seems like KZread can read my mind! The only thing I am missing now is a good company to go to a cafe with 😬😔
Wow, what a coincidence! I think you are right to try and change your mindset about it, I hope it works and that you find some company to enjoy the cozy cafe days with <3
The second time I ever visited Bergen (and the third time I visited Norway), I was crapped on by a seagull while at Fisketorget. Fast forward fifteen years or so and I now live in Bergen. I still look up to make sure I'm not immediately below the gulls though.
Oh no, haha! You know how it feels then. Many people in the comments here tell me it means luck so I am going to try and see it that way. How nice that you live in Bergen now!
And rain lots of rain
Oh I'd love to go there one day! Greetings from Winterberg in Germany👋☺️
20:20 but now they wanna destroy it with windmills🤯😢😩
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I love Anna😻🥰😇
You and me both!
I watched your beautiful first Bergen video when I was in my home country and got admitted to UiB as a PhD. Now I am here in Bergen and watching your second video trying to figure out what to do in a rainy day😂. I haven't been to any of the museums yet. So I guess I'd start with the Natural history museum. Also went hiking to Floyen recently and it was a bit raining but it was beautiful. 😇
How nice that you watched it before you moved there. I never thought that video would reach as many people as it did. I hope you enjoy the museum! Rainy day activities really helped me enjoy life in Bergen a bit more. But if you walked Fløyen in the rain and even enjoyed it you are on the right track I would say 😋😊
American from Florida. Maria, thank you very much for your video of Stavanger. A few years ago my wife and i took a Norway Cruise from Amsterdam to the Nordic Cap. The beauty of Norway and it`s people is indescribable. We have traveled all over Europe. Austria and Switzerland are 2 favorites, but i was completely in awe of Norway. I found your site quite by accident and will be interested to see some more of your wonderful videos. All of my best wishes to you!!
Do you have an electric blanket (or mattress pad) for your bed? One of these would help to keep you comfortable on a cold night.
Haha, Bendik is dreaming of one every day in winter x). I have a feeling we will soon get one
There is so much charisma between the two of you. I loved this video. Sometimes the rain here gets me down, but generally it is just part of the charm. Makes the 6 sunny summer days that much sweeter.
Thanks! So glad you liked it. The rain can absolutely get to me too, I live in a much sunnier place now and I have to admit... it's kind of nice. But on the other hand I still love a rainy day in Bergen <3
So lovely! More please. You can tell the two of you are having a great time.
Thank you! We really did <3
Man's voice and hormones. WTF. You really get all kinds of people on KZread, eh 😅😅.
I have lived both in Trømso and Kirkenes and have visited Bugøynes and Senja, what magnificent places... there is just something about the Arctic, the feeling that you are at the end of the world, so isolated and quiet. A place where your soul is at rest. Thank you for taking me there again 💙
Hello from the UK again Maria ☺. Our recent shared loss/grief will never go away but its lovely to see you laughing and smiling again, and not looking so tired. Sending love, light and Solstice Blessings ☀️🐞🌻🌹🐞🐾 xx
Thank you my friend <3. Yes this was actually a weekend filled with both mourning and remembering our loved one, and having a good time laughing with my friend Anna feeling lighter. Life is so much at the same time... Sending love to you too <3
That red flower, over the bridge in the park, was lovely
I thought so too <3 glad you noticed
Love it ❤ I’m from Brazil but I love traveling to Norway, I had some deja vu seeing some places that I already visited. Also love going to cafés.
oh, this makes me immediately want to hop on a train and travel to Bergen :D I like it very much, has been there for some days while having a little rest while traveling norway with my bike :) but this was a really long time ago. Thank you so much, it was very fun to go with you on the tour
It really is a special place <3. How cool you travelled Norway with your bike! I feel more and more inspired to do so myself. Was it a good experience?
@@Mariaandtheforest It was very special and awesome. I traveled 6 weeks with the bike but then has to send it home because of kneeproblems. But it is a very different type of traveling and I loved the experience. I cycled from Oslo to Bergen, then headed north til Andalsnes at the coastline.
Anna is an interesting person
She is :-)
Thanks in the last few days you have posted videos about Mosjøen AND Bergen… on my only trip to Norway from California several years ago, my travel companion’s family had emigrated from Mosjøen and we got to spend time there. And several of my other friends have Norwegian ancestry from Bergen. Both delightful cities. .. (and in Italy, being pooped on by a bird is considered good luck. Not so here in the United States)
Oh what a beautiful cosy house.. 💛 where these all Tine cups in the window?😆
Thank you <3 <3 I am not sure which window you refer too? The one in the picture?
@@Mariaandtheforest at 2:10 it looks like there is a Lactose graveyard behind you, It's great 😆 ! I am so happy I found your channel I will be watching💙
@@walkingoffthebeatenpath aaaah of course! Yes that is old sour cream cups that we re-use in our workshops 😂😂😂😂. So glad you like the channel <3
Beautifully done, my brother-in-law is from Bergen. He and my sister go back each summer. Thank you for showing me a little bit of your city.
Tusen takk for fantastiske videoen. Dere er begge så søte og informative. I can’t wait to visit Bergen again. 😄
I wouldn't say no to more Bergen videos either, btw;)!
I agree with everything you say here, Bergen is such a beautiful, cosy city and it'll reward you if you go off the beaten path and explore. The university museum and gardens are beautiful (I get to experience the gardens often as I go to uni and my faculty is just down the road from there!). Disappointed the dog wasn't in the shop today, though :p
I absolutely love Bergen! Don't mind rain at all. It gives me an excuse to stay home and read books. 🤭
Same here <3
Thanks for this lovely, cozy video. I have a trip planned to Scandinavia this summer and will be in Bergen in late August so this was perfect! Yes, more Bergen, please.
So glad you found it useful <3 I hope you have a wonderful trip!
Loved your stroll through Berfen. It brought back many memories. One of my favorite cities, too! Yes, it rained when I was there.
Very nice video my friend 🎉👌
Thank you very much!
Your tour was so fun and made me restless to visit the most beautiful Norway again. I missed seeing all these intriguing cafes and back streets of Bergen. Thank you so much for this ❤
Glad you enjoyed it <3
You know Anna is a good friend when she laughs and films you with bird poop on you. 😂 Such a nice tour of Bergen! I really want to go there! Here in The Netherlands we have a loooot of rain as well, so Bergen should feel like home, haha.
Hahah, yes indeed! And helps you clean it off your nose 😂. You would feel right at home with the rain then, I hope you get to visit :-)
@@Mariaandtheforest Haha exactly. Hope so too, thanks! Keep up the good work with your channel!