When nosotros woke upward this forenoon , the pelting was falling thick together with fast on exceed of the tent. Nick rolled over together with swore loudly. We couldn’t teach out the tent upward together with promise it would dry out , because nosotros were leaving Bergen that afternoon. We’d convey to gyre upward a moisture tent together with towel it out inwards the eventide – non ideal , but our solely choice.
We were both reluctant to brand the motion out of the warm tent together with into the mutual frigidity , moisture wood exterior , thus both lay tucked into our sleeping bags until nosotros were game plenty to apace firm out , pack downwards the tent together with foremost hurrying downwards the mountain.
Our bags were before long soaked through , every bit were our jeans , thus nosotros popped our backpacks into some other laid of lockers to forbid our things getting destroyed inwards the heavy rain. We together with thus sought the shelter of the antique store we’d spotted the afternoon earlier inwards the promise nosotros would dry out off.
This store was dissimilar whatever other antique store I’d e'er seen before. There weren’t swell tables lined amongst vases together with objects all inwards a row , all on display. There wasn’t a department for instruments together with some other for books together with some other for furniture. Cabinets were heaped on exceed of stacks of books , together with onetime cameras hung from trumpets , which hung from chandeliers. Vintage taxidermy birds – some of them quite awful – was perched precariously on exceed of onetime tabular array lamps , together with ane severed chetah caput – some other pitiable excuse for taxidermy – hung on a claw from a shelf.
One onetime reindeer pelt was strung upward over some other chandelier , its hooves hanging limply from the light. Old paintings depicting nautical scenes were pinned to the walls inwards a haphazard salon-style hang. Glass cabinets held other rare together with foreign objects , including the molar of a sperm whale. A couplet of carved ivories sat nearby together with I wondered if you lot could fifty-fifty sell ivory anymore.
The principal room of the store reflected inwards a mirror
The layout was somewhat daunting , together with every fourth dimension you lot displaced a curious object to plow it betwixt your fingers , v to a greater extent than curious things would seem beneath it. Everything nosotros peculiarly wanted to purchase nosotros either , a) couldn’t teach dorsum into Commonwealth of Australia or , b) was far every bit good large together with unwieldy to cart some for the foreseeable future. Wanting to a greater extent than things than nosotros could comport (and afford) nosotros ventured dorsum out onto the moisture street.
We popped into jewelry shops , wool shops together with board game shops (we’ve been missing our board games , but convey got some accommodation inwards Tromsø amongst a lady who mightiness play some amongst us). We happened upon a picayune store that sold moisture weather condition gear , together with Nicholas treated me to a vinyl fisherman’s lid (like the ane Paddington wears , but black) thus I could live a practical sea-faring witch side past times side fourth dimension nosotros went beach combing.
Hurriedly , I paid a catch to the Bergen Lush store to curb my homesickness , earlier nosotros picked upward our bags together with jumped on the limited boat that would drive us through the Sognefjord together with upward to Sogndal , which would live our domicile for the side past times side few days. Halfway through the boat trip , nosotros were moved onto a larger boat amongst an opened upward exceed deck , which meant nosotros could jump upward exceed together with marvel at the vast Sognefjord.
We arrived at Sogndal merely earlier 10pm together with apace hopped upward the nearest mount to develop the tent , waving off the laughing , boozer partiers who invited us inwards to political party amongst them. The Sun was going downwards tardily over Sogndal together with it was midnight when nosotros lastly finished setting upward army camp , but the heaven was nonetheless the hazy blueish of dusk.
The persuasion from our campsite over Sogndal
