City Center and Railway Station of Bergen, Norway

[CBTENGR100]

Seeing that station, brought back memories of Germany. When I was a little kid, I used to go down to the station in Berlin, and buy beer out of a machine....

Cara is there a Viking, or History museum in Bergen? That would be interesting.

Also are there any Ruins nearby?

[CaraDanaellea]

@CBTENGR100 Yeah, the station really looks German, but today you can no longer buy beer out of machines in Germany.

There is no Viking Museum in Bergen, if the entry is free for students I could try to find time to show the Hanseatic/Bryggen Museum (wasn't in there myself) or the king's hall with tower.

There are ruins everywhere on the mountainsides, but they all date back only to the WW2. In my "Hike to Bullets" video some can be seen. A wooden restored church is too far away for me :(

[Faxu]

Quite a pretty view of Bergen in this video. It also made it look more quaint than it does in most of your other videos. Then again, I'm from Philadelphia where there's a train station every 6 blocks (in a manner of speaking). Seems like it would be a nice place to spend a week. Then again I hear there is a crazy couple that lives in the hills of Bergen, wandering the forest and chopping things to pieces with swords...

[CaraDanaellea]

@Faxu The public transportation system of Bergen is really bad in my opinion, but that may be biased due to me having lived in Germany's best infrastructured city when it comes to buses, trams, trains and tubes. So I am used to Munich's standard and Bergen seems retarded in comparison...

But it sure is a great city to spend some time in, and the crazies normally keep from bothering people unless they are provoked ;)

[HojoOSanagi]

I love the old fashion look of European cities. My city is based off of Berlin (Which is funny because a city to the south was based off of and name after Paris and then below that London) and has the Industrialist outlook. We simply destroy the old and renovate everything to fit the next era (Still have a lot of work to do): Right now it looks half sci-fi-half 1800's. I'm getting out of here and going to Italy and Greece this Spring and can't wait to see the architecture of ancient Europe.

[CaraDanaellea]

@HojoOSanagi Europe and the Americas sure do differ greatly in looks, I guess that is to be expected when one of them has several hundreds of years more time to build cities :)

Just beware of the cobblestones, don't ever take a suitcase with wheels into a European city center. And you don't have to take absolutely everything with you, I met people who had a full set of clothes for every day with them, out of fear that you can't wash things in Europe...

[HojoOSanagi]

@CaraDanaellea

Most cities in North America aren't too advanced, many still look like they were built in the 1910-20's. My city just has the financing from technological production to build over the old into the technological age. It's probably going to screw us over though since the city keeps having to redesign their failures. I've been to Quebec city a few times, which still looks like it's ready to take on Wolfe's army in some areas, so I know cobblestone, especially on stairs (Not fun).

[Tacticalgearhead]

Look at all that infrastructure, clean and modern trams and busses. Busses here in America look terrible.

[CaraDanaellea]

@Tacticalgearhead All that infrastructure? Bergen is by far the worst city I ever visited when it comes to infrastructure. The tram only came back in June and the buses have lousy schedules.

If you want good infrastructure, visit Munich. There you have a system of buses, trams, intracity trains and tubes , which depart every 3-10 minutes inside the city and around every 20 minutes in the suburbs. Sure, you pay 60€ a month for a city card, but here in Bergen you pay the same for way less...

[aparatoso1]

great i've never travel in a intercity train (if that is the correct name) i just use the metro system i wonder how it woul be to travel in a hig velocity train

[CaraDanaellea]

@aparatoso1 It isn't that special. They travel without the typical bumping and are in fact very silent. The scenery passes by your window at not this much greater speed than when you sit in a very fast car.

The German ICE drives at around 300 km/h or 190 mph, what I am waiting for is the long promised Monorail train that is supposed to be as fast as an airplane... well, the first 100m in Munich are build, some years ago and nothing since *grumble*

[tetsubo57]

The city council should pay you...

Funny, my parents came from a town famous for being built on 7 hills. Pennsylvania coal country.

Our light rail system is next to non-existent. We prefer our fossil fuel guzzling cars. We're killing the planet as fast as we can!

But Skall is just so adorable. :)

Even *I* knew that was 'welcome to Bergen'. :)

[CaraDanaellea]

@tetsubo57 Why should they pay me? I'm not really making all that many positive remarks.

Yeah, I have heard that the public transport in the US is bad, and I bitch about Bergen being badly structured. Well it all depends on comparison I guess. I'm spoiled, for me every system that doesn't guarantee a bus every 10-15 min that does not arrive after the bus one has to change to is lousy X)

[ravenbones1]

not many people use a train to get around in the US - They tend to be expensive and uncomfortable. I personally have NEVER been on a train, other than an antique steam engine tourist attraction LOL.....I just checked the website for Philadelphia Pennsylvania and almost 80% of the trains that come in and out of the station in Philadelphia are for business people commuting daily to New York City, Boston, Baltimore, or Washington D.C.

[CaraDanaellea]

@ravenbones1 Trains are still one of the standard transportation systems in Europe, they are way cheaper than taking the airplane and with all the security checks and required waiting time at the airport, sometimes even faster. For example: Bergen-Oslo via airplane 400 crowns and 3.5 hours, no luggage, via train 399 crowns and 7 hours, as much luggage as I can carry and much more space. But this is the Norwegian train system, without all the cheap tickets you get in the rest of Europe...

[tattooskin72]

I would love to live there. The mountains are amazing and the architecture is beautiful... at least the "older stuff".

[CaraDanaellea]

@tattooskin72 It is a nice place to live indeed. Even the newer buildings are okay, not really megalomaniac. It has it's disadvantages too, the mountains make it very dangerous and difficult to drive in, both by bike and by car. And like all of Norway, you really can't buy everything you want, so get used to order stuff overseas (pay incredible taxes) and bugging family and friends to send you care packages ;)