Posts Tagged ‘bergen’

Sailing in bergen

Saturday, May 3rd, 2008

I was in bergen two weeks ago, doing part 1 of getting my sailing certificate.

Friday 06:00
For a man who woke up at 04:15, I feel remarkably… like myself :)
The buss from the city to the airport took around an hour, I’m now at gate 41, and got like 10-20 minutes
before boarding starts.
bah time for boarding.. I barely had time to start up eclipse…

Friday 09:00
The flight only took an hour, and the buss in to the city took 30 minutes.. then 15 minutes to find the hotel.
Would only have been 4 minutes If I had brought a compass :)

Friday 13:00
The hotel is pretty nice (P-hotels.no), and I just slept for a couple of hours (which I sorely needed), and woke up
at 12:00 by the pizza being delivered to my room.
The sailing doesn’t start until 17:30, the only thing I have to do by then is to buy some shoes I can sail in
I only brought my flipflops, and thankfully the weather report seems to be accurate, and the whole weekend
should have sunny weather.
The hotel only has unsecured wireless network, so I’m currently ssh’ing to my server and using bitlbee + irssi
to be on msn. Thank thor gmail is availible trough https :)

Friday 22:00
Just got back from the sailing, it was just a quick run outside bergen where we got to know the boat and
did some basic stuff like setting sail, and such..

Sailboat 2

Now I can stay in bed and watch an episode of Six feet under at the same time as stacy watches the same episode
back home :)

Saturday 20:00
I got to the sailing at 10:00, and we practiced parking the boat by the dock a few times, then we
headed out and did some sailing outside Bergen..

Sailboat

Sunday

Today we got some wind and where probably sailing at around 5-6 knots at the top.

sailboat 3
When I got back to the hotel I had some pizza for dinner, I bought it from an Italian place just next to the
hotel, and it was 10 times better than the pizza I had last night (and 1/4 of the price). Dolly dimples sucks
like a neutron star.

Pizza

I hit the sack pretty early, as again I had to be up at around 05:00 for the flight back to Trondheim.