re: Travel Advice: Nordic Trip - Summer 2016

The overnight ferry from Stockholm to Helsinki is fun. There is a bar/ disco on the boat that rocks all night. Oslo has a nice park/ sculpture garden that is free or very cheap....Vigland Park. You can also take the tram up the mountain to Lillehamer where they had the 1994 Olympics....bout 30 minutes and get out and hike around. Bergen is nice....the train ride through the mountains to get there is really beautiful.....but about 6 hours. If you make it there then do the "Norway in a Nutshell" tour. Boat ride through a fjord. Get off and take a narrow gage train up the mountain. Then bus back to bergen. It's touristy but fun. Stockholm is not my favorite place. And I have been there 3 times and stayed with friends that lived tjere once. I did like going out to one of the islands on a fjord....hour car ride and hour ferry ride. I couldn't tell you how to get there. Tallin is a must if you are in Helsinki.....but 10 days is not very much time. Consider doing Stockholm, Oslo,Bergen or Stockholm, Helsinki, Tallin.