norway_mayjune_2007 Photo Gallery by Jon Rankin at pbase.com

a fine tug, Schiphol airport Amsterdam	at the fish market...maybe	at the fish market...maybe not	nature's cathedral	not what you want to see	aquarium ferry passing city's symbol	Bergen's is added to the collection
tulips at the hotel	another symbol--warehouses dating to the Hanseatic League	German [Mary's] Church built in the 12th century	romanesque side door, German Church	detail, pulpit German Church	detail, pulpit German Church	hanging ship, German Church
Bergen's pride	8 servings every day	Hanseatic warehouses...a carpenter's nightmare	Hanseatic warehouses...a roofer's nightmare	old and new	Leprosy Museum--the lepers' church	leprosy museum the main floor of the hospital;
view from the second floor	a double room	lepers' church, little changed from the 1700's	lepers' church	view from a hospital room	view from Bergen Leprosy Hospital's kitchen	once a patient here
Bergen Station...the Oslo Express	creme-yellow rhododendrons	central fire station	in former times	converted warehouses	Bergen panorama from floiban	restaurant window, reflections
a late but intense spring	in the land of the trolls	a front row seat	an official Volvo	11th century Hanseatic merchant ship reconstructed from timbers found in the old town excavations	trephined skulls of 11th century Bergen inhabitants	checking the ship--forward viewing lounge
a gray evening for departure	not the Golden Gate, still impressive	the first of many	a coastal establishment	backed by a mountain	it was waterfall season	entering Alesund harbor
Alesund	fast patrol boat, Alesund	Alesund rebuilt in art nouveau style after destruction by fire in 1904	Alesund art nouveau house	in context	Alesund an oldie built for comfort	Alesund new construction
girl and buoy	glacial valley	into the snowy peaks	contemplating the fjords	there is a sun up there	as near as we ever got to sunset/rise	nonglaciated peak
waterfall Geirangerfjord	waterfall Geirangerfjord	waterfall Geirangerfjord	waterfalls Geirangerfjord	waterfall Geirangerfjord	waterfall Geirangerfjord	waterfall Geirangerfjord
waterfall Geirangerfjord	waterfall Geirangerfjord	waterfall Geirangerfjord	MSC Opera end of Geirangerfjord	Trondheim tulips	Trondheim river, warehouses	Trondheim warehouse ready for renovation
Trondheim Nideros Cathedral	Trondheim Nideros Cathedral	Trondheim Nideros Cathedral	Trondheim Nideros Cathedral	Trondheim Nideros Cathedral	Trondheim Nideros Cathedral	Trondheim Nideros Cathedral
the home of the Dark Whopper	Trondheim reflections	Trollfjord cutaway	lighthouse	entering port	a short walk	the daily meeting [with Vesteralen]
THAT'S how much a dollar is worth here!	fulmar nesting	passing a marker, 10:45 PM	the main activity	rugged peak	bold headland	Bodo Air Museum
Bodo Air Museum logo	Bodo Air Museum british fighter	Bodo Air Museum F 86	Bodo Air Museumm German bomber	Bodo Air Museum german Bomber	Bodo Air Museum	Bodo Air Museum JU52 graveyard
Bodo Air Museum JU 52 on pontoons	Bodo Air Museum JU 52 diorama	Bodo Air Museum JU 52 on pontoons	Bodo Air Museum JU 52 on pontoons	light on a road	Lofoten Islands	Lofoten Islands
Lofoten Islands	Lofoten Islands	Svolvaer the fisherman's wife looks out to sea	Svolvaer cod drying racks	Svolvaer the pointy end	Svolvaer the war museum a german unit emblem	Svolvaer the war museum a cap you wanted to avoid
Svolvaer the war museum the one way door	Svolvaer the war museum heavy cruiser Blucher, emblems and artifacts	Svolvaer the war museum WWII German surgical tray	Scharnhorst chronometer	gold bar, Zyclon cylinder	special oil for torpedo gyros	polar sea submarine battle shield
no metal detectors then	Svolvaer the war museum embroidered throw depicting Scharnhorst	Svolvaer the war museum Nazi rail gun	the daily meet: Polarys	a distant view of Polarys, town, mountains	two roof styles	more snow, higher mountains
a small red boathouse	eat two every day	auto and freight ingresss	the blunt end	sastrungi	alps	emblem of the Mack brewery in Tromso, northernmost in the world
Tromso tullps haven't opened	an angled pier affords a view of the upperworks	mountains meet the sea	farthest north	Norge moored to mast in the 20's	mooring mawst waits for the lost ship, Vadso	exiting at ther turn-around point
in the square, Kirkenes	Kirkenes out of its element	Kirkenes large Russian trawlers	Kirkenes small Norwegian fishing boat	the Midnight sun	low latitude passengers marvel at the midnight sun	a lenticular cloud
in the Trollfjord	in the Trollfjord	in the Trollfjord	uptown	downtown	a short commute	at the dock
veterans in the small boat harbor	reindeer	reindeer on the rocks	he braves the storms	a fortuitous ray	church	Hurtigruten museum at Stokmarknes includes an actual ship retired in the '60's
on the museum ship	reflections	across the harbor	fishermens huts	no clouds here	a volvo with major driving lights	the rare green boathouse
hole in the mountain	hole in the mountain	another suspension bridge	as stately as a gull gets	Trondheim yellow runabout	Trondheim river and cathedral, warehouses	Trondheim a well equipped CRV
Trondheim sadly we had to depart before the show	Trondheim former dock crane	Trondheim WW I monument	Trondheim the oldest Hurtigruten	on the bridge, computer steers	Kristiansund a veteran freight ship	Kristiansund a foot in both worlds
Molde departure of Albatros, former Royal Viking sky	Molde Albatros	view from Molde	a tranquil scene	the last light house	Bergen suburbs	Bergen looking into the harbor
Bergen Golden Rain, firehouse tower	Bergen Hanseatic warehouses	Bergen an old tradition--boys' marching corps	Bergen reflections	Bergen the cathedral	Bergen cannonball embedded in cathedral for a few hundred years	Bergen gaudy pansy

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Al Meeh		31-Jul-2007 00:49
Hi Ned and Joann, I just looked at your photos of our wonderful Norway trip again. You sure got a lot of great ones that I missed. I'm a bit jealous. Keep traveling and keep shooting those fantastic picture memories. Blessings, Al Meeh

cleofe quibote		28-Jun-2007 20:29
beautiful pictures, thanks Dr. and Mrs. Rankin for sharing. what a beautiful world we live in which we don't normally see unless we have good friends to share it with us like you. enjoy your trips. see you all soon.

David Nelson		14-Jun-2007 05:33
MARVELOUS. NEVER KNEW THERE WAS A LEPER COLONY ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD BUT ON MOLOKAI, HAWAII. TERRIFFIC CHOICE OF SUBJECTS. I FEEL AS IF MADE THE TRIP MYSELF. LOVED BERGEN'S PRIDE. NO WONDER. AND I ASSUME THAT IS A MANHOLE COVER FFOR YOUR "COLLECTION" AND OF SO, HOW DID YOU GET IT TO YOUR HOME? uD

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