Day Seventeen: Last Day, London

Dear Readers (If any of you are still reading),Today is the final day of my blog, as we left the ship this morning and flew here to London from Bergen.  Tomorrow, we fly out of Heathrow on a direct flight back to Atlanta.  We arrive there at 6:30 tomorrow evening.  And so our great adventure to Norway and the Arctic Circle ends.  I hope you enjoyed reading my daily travelogue (and I won’t say as much as I enjoyed writing it, because some days it was a struggle).  But I will say that it gave me a different perspective to try to relate what I saw to an audience, albeit a small audience.  I’m always interested in the history of a place, but I rarely take pictures, leaving that up to Doug with his superior camera.  But I found taking pictures was fun, because I look more for details, rather than at the big panoramas, although I did take of few of the larger view.  Which places did I like the best?  Probably London because there is so much to see here and so much history to take in; Edinburgh, because it has a completely different old world charm; Shetland, because of after reading the Shetland mysteries, I knew I would like the countryside and the atmosphere; Honningsvåg, Norway and the gorgeous fishing villages; and finally, Bergen, Norway, a gorgeous seaside town with spectacular views of the Fjords from the surrounding mountains.  See pictures below (the Bergen ? is the sign on the side of a mountain greeting you at the airport—I asked what it meant and no one seemed to know).And one more that I took after we went through security at the Bergen Airport because US airports should try this, especially Atlanta!