Autumm in Bergen 1 October 2019

 Streetshoots from Bergen and Fløyen.

Today I had this lovely day in the rain ,visiting my town and mountain Fløyen.

 I have been working alot and it is just nice to visit places

and do things one used to do before.

Now when the outside villages are becoming more like a little towns...

people tend to do their shooping local.Sometimes I think it is a bit sad

 because all the little nice shops cant keep it up with 

the  supermarkeds and have to quit their sales,

They can not compete with the big malls.

Nevertheless somethings are always here like the old resturants and hotels.

The photoes I have taken 

 is from the old music pavillion from 1888 in the municipality of Bergen

In summertime it is very nice and relaxing to sit here 

and listen to the concerts that often plays .

All kinds of classical music.And it brings people together.

It is always covered with alot of flowers.

Here is the late atumm 

perennials.The little boy called Hektor is a good keeper 

of the place and well dressed for todays rainy weather

 Before I used to take alot of birds photo.Still I like it alot.

This are sparrows living in the music pavillion

 They are soo cute..Did I tell you i have managed to train som ducks to jump high when feeding them?

Later I will show you :)

 The last of the sunflowers before winther is coming.

It is already very cold.We have to use jumpers and the oven is on

Hotel Norway and its American Bar &Resturant(to the right)

It was build in 1885 and is one of Bergens oldest Hotels

Very  nice to stay there.We often have Christmas dinners there

Ole Bulls plass and the Blue Stone

A meeting place for the locals.Behind is the Johannes church from 1894

Going down to the Fisketorget (Fish marked)

As you can see it is a lazy town today

We have this "Bompenger" action going on.

That means you have to pay alot of money driving  to town

  It is a big debate  here among the citizens and politicans.

Bompenge partiet has got  1/3 of the votes in Bergen .

They find it difficult and wrong to pay for driving into to town

Bompenger is both to avoid pollution and finance the new light rail around Bergen

Bergen Fisketorg(Fishmarked) is  not what it used to be,

Before all the fishermen came in here at Bryggen to sell their fish

Now all of the sales are in shoops and expensive markeds

Something never changes like this old resturant 

There is much activity here in the nights

You can imagine people and locals all over the country  docking up their boots

 and take in here for a refreshment 

Bergen is Norways second large city with 420,000 inhabitans

The city has roots and trading  long back to 1020.

King Olav Kyrre(son of Harald Hardåde) named the town Bjørgvin 

"The green meadow among the mountains"

It was Norway capital in the 13 th century 

and became a burea city of the Hanseatic League

In the middle of 14 th century,North German merchants 

who already been present for a long time, 

trading dried cod and stockfish,

 founded one of the four Kontore of Hanseatic Leauge here.

The Hanseatic merchants lived in their

 own seperate quarter of the town

In a later post I will show how they lived and their homes at Bryggen

Which is now Bergen old quaside Unescos list of World Heritage Sites

View of Mountain Fløyen and Korskirken from 1150

One can do alot of things easy such as renting a boat for cheap money

 and look around Bergen

At last view over Bergen Harbour from Mountain Fløyen

As you can see.Much use of umbrellas today!

It is mostly people and tourist from -Asia visiting today

 but also The Americans

I happened to get in talk with some of them 

and it was a pleasure guiding them around

 Some of them, the brave ones,

 even went out to the pier to have a good picture

 Thanx for watching and coming here to me in Norway!

Sorry it became a long post

I promise next time i will make it shorter

Have a nice day and see you soon