Actually it’s pronounced more like Flome. It’s a really tiny town at the end of a really big fjord. When we arrive there was a massive cruise ship tied up at the, um, side of town. The big ocean going cruise ships are really tall, as in maybe taller than a fifteen story building. So this ship towered over the town. But it was also longer than the town and I think wider too. Did I say the town was really tiny? And the ship was really big?

Anyway, we took a boat-load (couldn’t resist) of pictures but will have to post them tomorrow. While the hotel advertises that they have Internet, they do not. So we are sitting in the train station where I picked up their wireless to write this post.

We had a short drive today, less than 200 km and less than three hours. We were in some long tunnels under some big mountains; one tunnel was over 11 km, or about seven miles. It gets a little creepy after a while.

It’s another great day weather-wise and the hotel is really nice (other than the Internet.) But there is not much to do here after you watch the really big ship depart the really tiny town. So we’re doing a quick email catch-up and blog post and then going to dinner at Norway’s only restaurant in a converted rail car.

We have a long driving day tomorrow as we make up about a quarter of the distance back to Leipzig. We’ll be in a more modern hotel we think; we’ll post some pictures of Flåm then.