Travelog for: Luigi Palermo

Hei,

today we had nearly a full day at Stockholm. We have seen the parlament, the castle and the beautiful old town. At around 7 p.m. we started a 19 hours tour with the nighttrain to Narvik in Norway.

Luigi

Hello to all.
Today I show you Norway.
I start in Hamburg









After a long flight over oslo
I visit the harbor of Bergen





It served as Norway's capital in the 13th century, and from the end of the 13th century became a bureau city of the Hanseatic League.





at that time a lot of money was made here with fish







that is still today







This is very interesting
but i am on a cruise and my ship is waiting









it is a ship of the Hurtigruten the  Kong harald
i was watching the loading process and hurried on board in an unguarded moment







i am on the ship and look around carefully





I am relaxed, everything is fine I can not swim so well




Here we go we are on the way to Ålesund

Soon may the Wellerman come
Hi am on the ship to Ålesund




i am here





The town is a sea port and is noted for its concentration of Art Nouveau architecture






Now I am driving to the  Atlanterhavsparken aquarium.
it is one of Scandinavia's largest saltwater aquariums








the giant shrimp is watching me











In the outside area there are penguins
and sea otters








Hi I am on my way to Geiranger again

i am on the road to Geiranger



the first contact
from the hotel the Geirangerfjord looks amazing





there are funny things in the city,
talking cars





tomorrow i want to go by boat to the  Seven Sisters Waterfall



it's time, go













that's already great   




the next morning a look out of the window.
upssss
a large cruise ship








it is amazing how many tourists are suddenly here

I love the silence and nature, I will look around a bit







i am surprised, so many waterfalls.
I did not expect anything like this.

 

But enough is enough.
I leave Geiranger by ferry to a glacier




goodbye

There he is, the glacier
Briksdalsbreen (English: the Briksdal glacier) is one of the most accessible and best known arms of the Jostedalsbreen glacier. Briksdalsbreen is located in the municipality of Stryn in Vestland county, Norway.
i am now driving across the street to him





i climb  through the wild nature to him















i have done it,
the glacier











the colors of the ice are incrediblel





i am tired i need a coffee

In June 2018 I wanted to fly a second time to the USA and this time my good buddy Quacky King was with me.  We quickly got our passports and entry papers and off we went. Via Zurich we flew to Las Vegas.

Today turtles, Quacki King, F.M.Baer and I had a look at Las Vegas. We took a Big Bus and visited the Fremont Street, the Golden Nugget Casino (where I won 30 Dollars at the roulette) and the famous Las Vegas sign.
At the evening we walked to the Fountains of Bellagio, a spectacular show of water, music and lights. Awesome. And there I met two beautiful girls, who showed me Las Vegas at night. I came home at 6 p.m. and turtles was very angry. But what an adventure....

After two hours sleeping, turtles waked me up because we had to pick up our car.
A nice red Mustang convertible. Yeah. The right car for a big fish like me and a brave green frog.



Quacky and I took the best spot and enjoyed the drive to Death Valley.





First we went to Dante's View, a viewpoint at 1,669 m height, overlooking Death Valley. The landscape was so amazing, but it was very hot and a little bit windy. Turtles loved it. Crazy girl. Quacky Kind and I melted and F.M. Baer refused to leave the car. (the car had air conditioning!)





From Dante's View we drove to Badwater Basin, the the lowest point in the USA, with a depth of 86 m below sea level. When we were there we had 121 degrees Fahrenheit, so 49.4 degrees Celsius. Did I mention that we melted?









After Badwater Basin we had a short look to Artist Point, and then turtles drove to our hotel, which was already close to Sequoia National Park. We arrived late and it was already dark.

After a quick breakfast we headed towards Sequoia National Park.
The road led us uphill in curves and at the entrance to the park we stopped for a souvenir photo:



Look at these landscape:



On the way to the sequoia trees there was a lot to see and we stopped from time to time.






The Ranger in the visitor center (where we had to stop, so that turtles could buy postcards) had said that the higher we got, the more beautiful it would be, and she was right.
Then we saw the first sequoia trees. We parked our Mustang near the General Sherman Tree and walked among these beautiful trees.

 

Along the paths was a lot of information about the sequoia trees and we found the color of the trunks very beautiful. And the size of these trees is really incredible. General Sherman is the largest known living single-stem tree on Earth. How tiny Quacky and I look in front of him.









Of course the fir cones are huge here 

Because we still wanted to drive to Monterey we had to leave. But turtles promised us that we will spend much more time here next time. Because the trees impressed us very much.