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Message 748222 - Posted: 4 May 2008, 20:56:17 UTC

This continues from A journey to the Moon, part 2 :)

Here is the Moon Goddess who stands in a window in Moon's house. There are no green fields with flowers inside her house - this is a single photo showing the reflections as it was taken from outside looking in.

My new Journey to the Moon, as I continue it with Moon, is largely one of reflections, as I reflect on the many images and some thoughts I hope to share with you.




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Message 748224 - Posted: 4 May 2008, 21:00:25 UTC







. . . beautiful iX - simply beautiful

> and so the Journey has a New Beginnin' . . .


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Message 748257 - Posted: 4 May 2008, 22:09:34 UTC - in response to Message 748224.  


. . . beautiful iX - simply beautiful

> and so the Journey has a New Beginnin' . . .


Thank you Richard ;)

Here is one of the last photos I took of Moon's house before setting off back to England. It shows the balcony on the south side reflected in the water by her own private little island. Whilst Moon's house stands on its own grounds on a bigger island, there is an island close by that is her very own ;)

There is another reflection here, that of the many hours that I sat with Moon on that balcony, and my reflection on the many conversations we had there together with the vistas from that balcony that I will share with you later.




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Message 749527 - Posted: 7 May 2008, 18:08:21 UTC

Traveling to Moon's islands was a little different this time. Last time I traveled via Amsterdam to Bergen. This time via Oslo and back via Copenhagen, both places I have never been to before. But then I only got to see the inside of an airport, or as you can see here, from the inside of a plane; my view of Oslo :)




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Message 749533 - Posted: 7 May 2008, 18:21:56 UTC

This is a view as I took off from Oslo on my way to Bergen




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Message 749535 - Posted: 7 May 2008, 18:26:17 UTC

There was plenty of snow and ice as I flew over Norway




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Message 749537 - Posted: 7 May 2008, 18:30:14 UTC

For some strange reason people lived in the middle of these mountains of snow and ice ;)




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Message 749540 - Posted: 7 May 2008, 18:38:18 UTC

As we approached Bergen I took this shot of a couple of bridges. In my next photo you will see the nearest bridge as I sped past it on the fast ferry to catch my return flight




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Message 749541 - Posted: 7 May 2008, 18:39:35 UTC

The previous photo was the bird's eye view - this is the sea view ;)




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Message 749542 - Posted: 7 May 2008, 18:40:56 UTC

Are you referring to an actual person when you say "Moon?"
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Message 749547 - Posted: 7 May 2008, 18:51:43 UTC - in response to Message 749542.  
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Are you referring to an actual person when you say "Moon?"

Yes indeed. A pun if you like. I am on a journey to the Moon, to the end of the world on the most outer of islands in Norway - it may as well be the Moon. But the journey is about my journey 'with' Moon - an actual person, as described in part 1 and part 2 ;) This part, part 3, is a continuation of that journey

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Message 749549 - Posted: 7 May 2008, 18:54:45 UTC

Here I fly past the coast guard as I near Bergen airport




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Message 749554 - Posted: 7 May 2008, 19:22:33 UTC

It's not long before I admire the houses nestled on the hillsides from the bus into Bergen center where I will find a ferry to Moon's islands.




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Message 749557 - Posted: 7 May 2008, 19:39:25 UTC

Here I am back in Bergen again. It's warmer and lighter than my previous visit, and much busier. My first impression is that it's just another city with tourists, but it's far from that. It has a character of it's own that I soon recall from my first visit. It's time to take a look around before taking to the sea...




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Message 749563 - Posted: 7 May 2008, 19:47:53 UTC
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I think someone caught too much sun here ;)



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Message 749565 - Posted: 7 May 2008, 19:50:54 UTC

This must be the strangest graveyard I ever saw :P




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Message 749566 - Posted: 7 May 2008, 19:53:57 UTC

Even Bergen has some plain looking apartment buildings in the city center




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Message 749582 - Posted: 7 May 2008, 20:05:10 UTC

This guy stands high over the city center




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Message 749595 - Posted: 7 May 2008, 20:18:52 UTC

It's amazing what statues they have outside office buildings




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