Eidfjord

When we booked this cruise months ago one question we had was how we would handle the motion of the ship.  We seem to be pretty good sailors.  We came prepared with seasick patches from our doctors but have not used them,  We traveled the open sea last night and could feel the difference from the fjords around Bergen but it was kind of fun.  Anchored off the little town of Eidfjord we can see whitecaps this afternoon and feel more movement at anchor than this morning.

At the end of our day in Bergen yesterday we stopped at one of the customer service desks to ask about what to expect being tendered for our excursion today.  The young woman answered our questions including what time to be ready and what deck the tenders leave from.  What she forgot to tell us is that we would be assigned to a group and that group would first meet in the Star theater.  Since we were on the 9:30 tour to the Norsk Nature Center she recommended we be there at 8:45.  We go down to deck 1 at the appointed time, board the boat and in Eidfjord ask one of the Viking staff where we go next.  He was a bit snarky in his corrections when a simple "Perhaps there has been a mix-up" would have done.  I was surprised to find a Viking employee with attitude having never encountered one on our river cruise a few years ago or in the months leading up to this trip.  Let's hope he's the only one.

Since we were so early we enjoyed the front seats on our group's bus.  The ride to the nature center was short but we drove through what must be one of the longest tunnels I have ever traveled through.  The nature center was at the edge of another small town and consisted of two buildings; the very modern looking center and across from it a large log building with a restaurant, gift shop and 3 little goats grazing on the roof.  Based on all the photos being taken those goats were the highlight.  The center helps explain the history and unique terrain of the fjords.  It included a panoramic film flying over the fjords much like "Soaring" at California Adventure without the sense of motion.