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favorite café as a second living room where they
visit with friends and family over cups of coffee or
tea.
Before leaving, we took a short walk in the
woods that began near a large children’s
playground filled with laughing pink-cheeked
youngsters. Many likely had walked up the steep
mountain with their parents, who were also
enjoying an outing on a sunny day. We walked on
into a magical forest where it’s said witches prowl.
By the time we headed back to town, we were
working up an appetite for another dining
adventure.
But first, we stopped at the fascinating
Hanseatic Museum that illustrated how Hanseatic
merchants lived and traded in Bergen for 400
years. We could have spent a full day here, but we
had an appointment with more real Norwegian
food.
To our delight, our next and final culinary
destination was inside one of the historic Hanseatic
warehouses that flank the Quay. This ancient
district is a big part of why Bergen is a Unesco
World Heritage Center. No city anywhere can
boast even one Hanseatic period wooden house,

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