Blanching and freezing a few peas.

On our eighth day of vacation we saw a couple essential Bergen sites. First up, a boat tour of a fjord. I didn't want to go to Norway without seeing a fjord – so we took a mini trip – a three hour tour to see the fjord that is closest to Bergen.  Here we…

Bergen is surrounded by seven little mountains (little compared with the mountains we had just seen in Switzerland). So on our seventh day of vacation we decided to hike up one. We started out climbing through the neighborhoods with their quaint cobblestones and famous wooden houses. Lovely views of the city. At the top of…

Bergen was lovely. A city on the water surrounded by pine tree covered hills and massive rocks poking up out of the ground here and there. Sort of reminded me of Maine or New Hampshire.  Here's Brian's hotel breakfast.  We started off with a visit to the Bergen Maritime Museum. It covered maritime history from…

We were sad to leave Switzerland but excited to see to Bergen, Norway on our 5th day of vacation. We headed to the grocery store for some snacks soon after landing and found this.

After the via ferrata I needed a rest day. Brian headed out for a really long bike ride. He turns on the location thingy on his phone so I can see where he is (makes me less nervous). Every time I checked on him he had just gone over another mountain pass. He misses biking…

As I was crawling up this mountain, following Bea, I thought about how when your kids are little you ask them to do difficult things and now my kid has grown big and she's asking me to do something difficult.  Bea really wanted to do a Via Ferrata which is a climbing route with steel…

On our second day we took a long hike to the Gotthard pass.  The Gotthard Pass is a historically important connection between north and south Europe. The famous road is filled with cyclists, motorcycles and all kids of interesting cars. You can even take an old timey horse drawn carriage over the pass. If you…

It felt so nice to be back in Switzerland. Like going home. We stayed in a town called Andermatt – it's way up high in the mountains and it is surrounded by famous alpine passes. Here are some photos from our first day there. Claire caught a nap on the train – and then we…