First. Ask a friendly Norwegian bus driver which bus to take. They may seem friendly, but really, they´re all plotting and scheming to send foreigners astray, waiting to laugh evilly at their fate!
Second. Ask a friendly Norwegian bus driver which bus to take to Haukeland. Pronounce it not Haukeland, but maybe Hokeland, Håkeland, høkeland, Howkayland or some vaguely related version!
Third. Think that a sykehjem (sick home) and a sykehus (sick house) are one and the same, ending up at Haukeland sykehjem, not Haukeland Sykehus! Just using a hospital as a landmark in the first place is stupid. They´re cities! They go on for miles and miles, you can start in one town at one side of the hospital and end up in another!
Fourth. Use the Haukeland Sykehus as a target, when really it isn´t all that close to where you want to go!
Fifth. Mistakenly think that a graveyard is the dead centre of the city (hohoho). There ended up 3 graveyards within a couple of kilometres from eachother sending me round in circles!
So yes, I ended up exploring bergen a little bit more, using 23 kroner on a bus which didn´t take me exactly where i wanted to go! Always nice to see new things though!
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I think that the Haukeland graveyard is particularly well placed, being right opposite the Haukeland hopsital and in full view from the windows of the wards. Must be nice to lie in your hospital bed and gaze ponderingly across the way and let your gaze drift amongst all of the headstones.....
oh yeah, you could try asking for a bus to Krohstad (that seemed to end me up in the right place always)...
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