On July 5, our excursion to see Bundhusdalen glacier left at 8am. The description of the excursion was a little misleading: did not tell us we would be hiking almost 2 miles uphill!! The glacier far away and unimpressive but the scenery up to the glacier was breathtaking! I took some beautiful video but the…

So our first port was Kristiansand. We hopped on a RIB boat, an inflatable, and sped through the Olaf Strait to a small island, Vara Battery, that was occupied by 200 Nazis and 500 Russian prisoners. They built a fort, Movik Fort, and a huge highway of tunnels throughout the island to support their cannons…