We were ready to stop travelling for a few days and make the most of Mark and Maria’s lovely home in Camallera. The house is about 10 minutes from the Mediterranean and has views of the Pyrenees mountains. Since we last visited a pool has been installed in the garden and we were all set for some R&R after our adventures. We had just one pressing objective, laundry!
The journey from Milan to Naples was interesting, it should have taken about 6 hours, but we arrived 30 minutes late. As we traveled south the landscape changed becoming more Mediterranean with olive groves, vineyards and iconic Cyprus trees. We stopped in Florence and Rome, but you can’t see much from the rail track.
We arrived in Bergen just in time to drop our bags and head out to dinner. We were close to the historic Bryggen area, a run of colourful historic wooden wharf buildings on the harbour. The receptionist recommended the Unicorn restaurant in one of those buildings so we set off to find it. The restaurant was on the first floor approached via a very old wooden staircase. At the top was a dark landing and a solid door, we had no idea what to expect. We opened the door and were greeted by a cozy, bustling restaurant furnished with mismatched antique furniture and lamps, like an old family dining room. The waiter led us to a table by the window and we had another great meal, we all had fish cooked to a variety of traditional Norwegian recipes.
…our journey to Hamburg was slightly disrupted. We had to change trains unexpectedly at the Dutch/German border (we think there was an engine issue), and our connection at Osnabruck was about 50 minutes late so we didn’t arrive in Hamburg until about 7pm.