Day Thirty - Jul 11, 2014
Alesund, NOR to Copenhagen, DEN
Daily Didactic
Today was a museum between two flights. We said goodbye to the perfectly functional, if uninspired, Scandic Alesund, took the short hop to Bergen, and picked up a day rental that was, on close inspection, not the day rental we'd been promised. It had the right number of wheels, so we let it go. The afternoon belonged to KODE, the Bergen art museum nobody warns you is good in case you don't have the time. We did the full lap. Munch's first masks turn up in Night at Karl Johan's, where everyone in the crowd is wearing the same nervous face; Kode 1 is built around a single chrome spire that runs the height of the room; there's a contemporary-design wing that is a roomful of chairs, which is Brian's idea of a religious experience. Theresa had a difference of opinion with a vestibule she felt was getting between her and a mural. Lunch afterward was an eggs benedict of unreasonable engineering that we will be discussing for some time. Bergen had decided to be sunny and high-seventies, the kind of day the rest of the group spent hiking Floyen while we admired it from sea level and toured the city's manhole covers instead. We found a garden, a future mountaineer of about six in a serious white dress fording a fountain, and Bryggen looking like a different town under full sun. Then the airport again, with Brian's outsized luggage in tow, a short flight, a sign in Danish with a suspicious asterisk to argue about at altitude, and Copenhagen Central depositing us into a city being reasonable about the heat. Dinner at Laura's flat, a plate of meat with sausage, may quietly edge out the eggs benedict.
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