Cruise Guide to Europe and the Mediterranean Eyewitness Travel

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Cunard’s red and black funnels Bright Young Things Each lifeboat THE QUEEN MARY Art Deco Interior THE ORIGINS OF “POSH” A 1920s cruise liner in the Suez Canal Bridge Over 2,000 portholes The two bow anchors The bowwave P&O Poster 1930s Menu Cunard Line’s Queen Mary entering New York harbour in 1936 THE OPULENT THIRTIES AIR TRAVEL BRINGS RAPID CHANGE 1935 poster for the French cruise liner Normandie THE END... most northerly town Local museum Vardø 220 km (132 miles) E of Honningsvåg Norway’s most easterly town 18th-century fort Honningsvåg Northern Lights Children of the Earth Monument The midnight sun, seen from the vantage point of North Cape Hall KEY SIGHTS Arctic Cathedral Art Museum of Northern Norway Mount Storsteinen Polaria Roald Amundsen, Norway’s most famous explorer Polar Museum FACT FILE TOURIST... Tromsø Remote and mountainous archipelago, popular for winter fishing Arctic Cathedral Art Museum of Northern Norway Lofoten Islands KEY SIGHTS Archbishop’s Palace Bakklandet Museum of Decorative Arts Nidaros Cathedral Stiftsgården Detail from a gate at Stiftsgården FACT FILE TOURIST INFORMATION Munkegaten 19 Tel (73) 80 76 60 May–Aug: daily to 6pm (May & Jun: Sat & Sun to 4pm); Sep–Apr: Mon–Fri to 4pm MARKETS... buildings Fantoft Stave Church 5 km (3 miles) S of Bergen A painstakingly restored 12thcentury building, originally modelled on the stave church in Borgund (see p32) The Borgund church is the best of its kind in Norway Troldhaugen 8 km (5 miles) S of Bergen This is the former lakeside home of the composer Edvard Grieg, who spent the last 22 years of his life here The building is now a museum dedicated to his... of the Seas, one of a new generation of “superliners” Large, well-appointed luxury suite, available on many ships TYPES OF CRUISES THEMED CRUISES Star Clippers’ four-masted barquentine Star Flyer Hurtigruten ferry, off the coast of Norway CRUISES FOR CHILDREN WORKING CRUISES Ship’s pool, always popular with children A romantic honeymoon aboard ship HONEYMOON CRUISES TYPES OF CRUISE SHIP Jogging on the. .. Glaciers explained Aurlandsfjord Borgund Stave Church KEY SIGHTS Breidablikk Canning Museum Cathedral Gamle Stavanger A tin of Stavanger fish Ledal Manor Marina Norwegian Petroleum Museum Valberg Tower FACT FILE TOURIST INFORMATION Rosenkildetorget 1 Tel (51) 85 92 00 summer: daily to 8pm; winter: Mon–Fri to 4pm, Sat to 2pm MARKETS Flowers & fruit Torget; daily Seafood Along the quayside; daily LOCAL... 2pm The passenger ferry, Fjaerland mid-May– Tel (57) 69 32 33 mid-Sep: daily to 5:30pm The train station, Flam Tel (57) May & Sep: daily to 63 21 06 4pm; Jun–Aug: daily to 7:30pm The waterfront, Ulvik Tel (56) 52 63 60 mid-May–mid-Sep: daily to 5pm; mid-Sep–mid-May: Mon–Fri to 2pm LOCAL SPECIALITIES Crafts Knitwear, fur Sognefjord EXCURSION Norwegian Glacier Museum Fjaerland, 150 km (93 miles) NE of . "%#    '$ %#$# %  EYEWITNESS TRAVEL CRUISE GUIDE TO EUROPE & THE MEDITERRANEAN EYEWITNESS TRAVEL CRUISE GUIDE TO EUROPE & THE MEDITERRANEAN "  ")  $. 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