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Friday Fotos - A Slice of Heaven

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Friday Fotos - A Slice of Heaven

Do you have a favorite place on earth?  I have to say that I love warm climates (like Hawaii and Florida) and dry hot climates (I honestly love to visit Death Valley), but surprisingly one of my favorite spots on earth . . .

 

Globe in Flam Norway

 

is Flam Norway

Flam up close

 

It was not the least bit hot, but at least the sun was out all three of the days we relaxed there . . .

Flam Norway

 

Norwegian Sheep

Had to help keep the sheep fed so there would be plenty of cheese for the next tourists to come along.  I think we cleaned out the little market of all the Goat Cheese they had--that was another part of what made Flam heavenly!

 

Flam Market

 

We arrived by boat (traveling through the fjords), but we left by train.  The Flam Railway is one of the world's steepest railway lines on normal gauge . . .

This way Out of Flam Norway

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Chris K. Canfield

REALTOR®, ABR, CRS, e-PRO, GREEN, MRP, SRES 

Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage

2890 E. Skyline Drive, #250

Tucson, Arizona  85718

 

 

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Comments (40)

Jerry Newman
Brown Realty, 210-789-4216, - San Antonio, TX
Texas REALTOR, San Antonio Military Relocation

Hi Chris. Norway sounds like a great place to visit. It is certainly a beautiful country from all the photos that you provided in this post.

Mar 12, 2011 04:21 AM
Michael Delaware
North Sky Realty LLC - Battle Creek, MI
REALTOR®, CRS, GRI

Looks like a very cool out of the way place to visit.  Did you go on vacation?

Mar 12, 2011 04:58 AM
Chris Canfield
Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage - Tucson, AZ
Homes for Sale in Oro Valley and Tucson, Arizona

Hi Roy - A good weekend to you too!  The sun is out!!

Hi Jerry - Norway is a great place to visit--hope you get the chance to enjoy it someday . . . and I didn't even mention the Smorgasbords!!

Mar 12, 2011 05:10 AM
Chris Canfield
Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage - Tucson, AZ
Homes for Sale in Oro Valley and Tucson, Arizona

Hi Michael - Yes, it was a vacation.  You would have to have some really cool job if it would take you to Flam Norway!  Like working on the railroad or a cruiseline!  It is extremely remote.

Mar 12, 2011 05:12 AM
Gloria Todor
Premier Property Sales & Rentals - Springfield, PA
& Doug Durren (484) 431-3686 in SE PA

Hi Chris, That looks like such a pristine part of the world.  It sounds like a lovely place to visit and live.  Goat cheese, yum!  Kind of makes me think of one of my favorite parts of the world, the Pacific Northwest, in particular the San Juan Islands.  They can only be reached by boat.  I would settle for moving back to Seattle.....

Do you plan a return trip to Flam?

Gloria

Mar 12, 2011 12:08 PM
Chris Canfield
Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage - Tucson, AZ
Homes for Sale in Oro Valley and Tucson, Arizona

Hi Gloria - I have so many places that I would love to visit (especially Italy), but Flam is calling me back.  I do think I will return in the not to distant future, and probably stay longer.  It is such a pristine place!!

Mar 12, 2011 12:10 PM
William Johnson
Retired - La Jolla, CA
Retired

Hi Chris, the beauty of Norway is awesome. A visit there is definitely on my bucket list and the darn thing is ready to overflow, :-)

Mar 12, 2011 01:26 PM
Chris Canfield
Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage - Tucson, AZ
Homes for Sale in Oro Valley and Tucson, Arizona

Hi William - Let the trip to Norway rise to the top of that bucket list!  What's really cool is to fly on Iceland Air and go through Iceland on the way!  Sweden should also be on the list! 

Mar 12, 2011 02:05 PM
Robert Vegas Bob Swetz
Las Vegas, NV

Hello Chris and I have always wanted to visit Norway and born and raised in Minnesota there are so many Norwegians that moving to Minnesota many many years ago. Some great photos and your post has been featured at one of my favorite groups at AR ...

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Mar 12, 2011 05:53 PM
Patricia Feager, MBA, CRS, GRI,MRP
DFW FINE PROPERTIES - Flower Mound, TX
Selling Homes Changing Lives

Hi Chris,

I'm glad you had the opportunity to visit Norway and bring back your memories here on ActiveRain for us to see. I've never heard of Flam before, there's so much more I need to learn. Thank God for people like you who expands my mind with new learning.

The photos are very beautiful and the stories you told by putting captions under your photos brings the photos to life.

Nice job Chris!

Mar 12, 2011 09:51 PM
Chris Canfield
Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage - Tucson, AZ
Homes for Sale in Oro Valley and Tucson, Arizona

Hi VB - Thanks so much for the Feature!  You would feel right at home in Norway!

Hi Patricia - Glad you enjoyed them!  Flam is a small town between Oslo and Bergen Nowary right in the middle of the fjords.

Mar 13, 2011 12:38 AM
Brenda Whitman, Live in Laramie Real Estate
Live in Laramie Real Estate, Laramie, Wyoming - Laramie, WY
Broker/Co-Owner, Laramie, Wyoming

Awesome pictures!  I never knew it was so green there!  Nor that it had such contrast in the landscapes.  Beautiful.

Mar 16, 2011 04:08 PM
Chris Canfield
Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage - Tucson, AZ
Homes for Sale in Oro Valley and Tucson, Arizona

Hi Brenda - It was amazingly lush in Flam in August--lots of glacier melt in the area!

Mar 17, 2011 02:33 AM
Debbie Walsh
SHAHAR Management - Middletown, NY
Hudson Valley NY Real Estate 845.283-3036

Great shots Chris!  Isn't it nice when you get the chance to get away? 

Mar 17, 2011 07:06 AM
Robert Vegas Bob Swetz
Las Vegas, NV

Hello again Chris and Norway, Sweden & Finland are in my "Bucket List"!

VB ;o)

Mar 18, 2011 04:59 AM
Chris Canfield
Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage - Tucson, AZ
Homes for Sale in Oro Valley and Tucson, Arizona

Hi Debra - Yes, it is nice when one can get away!  Believe it or not, that vacation was 15 days without phone or e-mail!  It was so wonderful to have someone "back home" who took care of everything for me while we were gone!

Hi VB - We didn't make it to Finland, even though we were there for 15 days.  : )  Denmark should be on the list too--you must do Tivoli Gardens!

Mar 18, 2011 07:18 AM
Robert Hammerstein
Christie's International Real Estate - Hillsdale, NJ
Bergen County NJ Real Estate

Chris = Nice shots. I too love Norway. Thanks for sharing these shots with us. I speak with my cousins in Sweden on Skype daily so I am always in touch with the Scandinavians on my side of the fam... Cool

Mar 20, 2011 05:05 PM
Chris Canfield
Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage - Tucson, AZ
Homes for Sale in Oro Valley and Tucson, Arizona

Hi Robert - I hope that you get to go to Flam on one of your trips over there--it is a bit different than Oslo (though I loved Oslo--except for the cost!).  : )  Bergen was amazing too! 

Mar 22, 2011 01:47 PM
Linda D. Pufford
Stage with Divine Style - Home Staging - Novato, CA
ASPM, Marin/Sonoma Home Stager

Chris,

I'm not sure how I missed this post from your vacation.  Norway looks like an awesome place to visit... thanks for sharing this.  I really appreciate your stories and photos!

Mar 24, 2011 03:58 PM
Chris Canfield
Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage - Tucson, AZ
Homes for Sale in Oro Valley and Tucson, Arizona

Hi Linda - Glad that you enjoy this post--we certainly enjoyed the trip.  It would be great to go again, but after this winter I think a warm spot might be a good choice (Flam was lovely but cool).

Mar 25, 2011 05:22 AM