Bergen

This is Bergen! Norway's second biggest city and city of culture. This town may seem small, but I think it has everything you could ever need. We were here for three days and loved every minute.

We discovered that Bergen is filled with awesome functionalist buildings from the 1930s. Like this one, the Sundt department store designed by Per Grieg. Beautiful.

Also home to the greatest telephone boxes I have ever seen.

Bergen is also famous for its well-preserved collection of old buildings by the wharf, or Bryggen. It's like a miniature wooden city filled with bridges and secret passages, where nothing is truly straight.

Lovely cafés spill their antique mismatched chairs onto the sidewalk.

We wandered into a very red brick Church on top of a hill. We could not have anticipated the lovely surprise inside.

Humble but beautiful details are what make this Church one of my favourites.

Like the spectacular wooden ceiling.

From Mount Fløyen you can get a spectacular view of the city (even though it is only 320m above sea level). If you are lazy or "just-have-an-invested-interest-in-alternative-modes-of-transportation" you can take the funnicular up or down.

On this mountain hovering over town, Bergeners can still get lost in the forest or see their reflection in a still lake.

My kind of city.