Does Bergen feel safe to a woman travelling solo?🧍♀️Bryggen + Fløibanen to Mt. Fløyen | Norway
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Hi everyone!
Have you got a trip to Bergen planned and you’re wondering what to do there?
Well, in this video I’m giving you an idea!
Getting the funicular (Fløibanen) to get to Mount Fløyen is definitely a must-do for your visit to the Norwegian city!
Also, is Bergen safe for women solo travellers?
Well, I’m giving you my personal perspective about this, too.
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Sleep in the cone! (Around 143€/night)
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Fløibanen to Mount Fløyen (the return ticket from the city centre is around 11.34€)
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UNESCO World Heritage Bryggen
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Footage of Italian movie "Quo Vado" (2016) by Gennaro Nunziante comes from here
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"Quo vado" (2016, by Gennaro Nunziante) film locations in Bergen
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I had lunch here (Godt Brød Floyen)
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I had dinner here and it was fab (Leela Indian restaurant)
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HEIM Bryggen (home interiors & clothing shop)
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Camilla Logiudice
こんばんわ。知らない国の文化を知ることはとても刺激になります。From Japan
Good evening to you, from Scotland to Japan! 🏴 🇯🇵 I’d love to visit your country one day!
The weather was perfect for getting the most authentic Bergen experience.
The most authentic bergen experience, is to see the transformation of the city, when the clouds lift and the sun comes out...and the city just explodes....and everyone gets out... and the trolls turn into beutiful people....
@@atleengelstad5303 When the sun comes out in Bergen, the locals think they are seeing a UFO.
@@Cenindo The sun is a conspiracy theory. Definitely not real.
@@Cenindo😂
@@atleengelstad5303 People really go mental when it's sun and 25+ degrees, it's the best part of living here, what with how ALL BETS ARE OFF. People leaving work early, flooding into the parks and cafés.
Loved the chill vibe! Heading to bergen in the summer.
Thanks for watching and commenting! 😊 Bergen in the summer sounds great, make the most of it!☀️ 🇳🇴
Another wonderful land informative video, and I would love to be able to travel to Bergen after watching it. It looks like one of the most beautiful places you've visited, however it is a bit hilly which would cause me problems. I noticed how very clean and tidy it is too. I don't know when I shall be able to travel again, I'm awaiting the results of an MRI scan to see whether or not I need more surgery. I do plan to visit again very soon, though that's not too much of a problem. And possibly back to Reykjavik in the autumn. If I go there again I will most definitely hire an electric scooter. Thank you for your lovely videos, they make my weekend.
Thanks so much for your kind words, I’m glad you enjoyed the video. You are very right, Bergen was tidy and clean and definitely one of the loveliest cities I’ve ever visited. I missed your comments - I know, I got spoiled with you commenting every video! Ahah My very best wishes to you for your health, I hope your results will be good and that you’ll be able to go to Reykjavik in autumn. Now that you mentioned it, it makes me think I’d love to go back to Iceland, too… Take care!
Thank you for commenting your feelings of safeness. I'm from Bergen, much appreciated! My daughter have always been globetrotting around the world,often on her own,and she has had her share of creepy "woman travelling alone"- situations..
Also, I will recommend a visit here in May,when spring has fully arrived. The city literally explodes with life after the dark half of the year is transforming to the light days and nights of summer. The BIG bonus is the Constitution day on 17.May - every Norwegian partying and drinking all night long,lol..
Thank you for watching and for commenting! It must be great to come from such a beautiful city. Globetrotting is the best thing in the world, your daughter and I would get on well! I can imagine, every woman who travels solo will have her share of unpleasant (if not creepy) situations… and not just when you travel unfortunately. I’d love to see Bergen in May, thanks for the tip! This year I won’t be able to come back as I have different plans, but hopefully one day 🤞🏻
It's beautyful house Camilla then cat so cute and your pen and song totally ilove and ilike
Love it, captured a very "Bergen-y" situation in regards to the rain. Authentic experience for sure. Keep up the good work! Best from a local :) Hope you had a lovely time!
Thanks very much for watching and for commenting, I’m glad you enjoyed the video! I really did have a great time in Bergen, I still remember with nostalgia that walk in my favourite hillside part, with the gorgeous, cosy, pastel coloured houses.. 🫠 Best from (equally rainy) Scotland! :)
@@camyinwonderworld It's always fun to see an "outsiders" view of the city, and your tour was lovely. Bergen, by far, is a weird, unconventional and intersting place for foreigners to explore, and it warms my heart that you enjoyed it :)
i call this city home for the past 5 years, and if god wills fora life time. Happy to be a Bergenite. Everyone is safe here.Hopefully it stays that way forever.
Thanks for watching and commenting! 😄I bet it feels good to call Bergen your home and I also hope it remains safe.
Nicely done video. We love it here.
Thanks very much for watching and commenting! Glad you liked the video 🤗 I actually watched it back yesterday and I felt so much nostalgia for my time in Bergen… 🇳🇴 Need to come back soon!
My hometown! I actually used to live in your favourite Bergen street. 😉
I would be sad if you didn't feel safe and angry if you didn't have a reason to.
As a student I worked the front desk at a few of the hotels you passed, but 95,- euro for that room sounds like highway robbery to me. Was that a hotel with a 24/7 staff and it's own restaurant?
Oh really? 😄 That’s so lucky, a really beautiful area and super central! Yes, that room was really expensive for what it was… The hotel was nice, the room…not. Yes there was 24 hour front desk, but no restaurant, only breakfast and free waffles in the afternoon!
As always, a quirky, interesting vlog. And yes, Bergen in the summer would be fabulous.
Did you find the Norwegians are similar to the Scots? Sending postcards is ESSENTIAL. And a confession - i am a little obsessed with funicular railways. There is one in Barcelona i use whenever I am there, and also in Porto.
LMAO No we are no way near similar to Scots. XD
@@zentheone7850 that is very true, on reflection. You have a lot of catching up to do, especially when it comes to manners.
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I used to live in the street at 3:58 a few years ago when I went to high school!
😮 Such a beautiful area! 🫠
i camped in bergen a few years ago when taking paragliding lessons.. basically directly under the ulriken 643 hanging wire ropeway thing.. like 5 minutes walking under it on the pathway.. i stayed there for a full week and only one french tourist found my campsite.. want to revisit that spot sometime
Camping in Bergen sounds so relaxing! Such a beautiful place, it must be lovely in summer, too, when the weather’s nicer… ☀️ 🏕️
@@camyinwonderworld recall there was a severe thunderstorm one night.. i dont particularly like thunder and lightning especially when being outside around tall trees.. was hanging in a hammok.. there is a meterological site where you can watch lightningstrikes live.. so i was looking at that.. and i was directly under the wires from this ropeway so i felt moderatly safe.. didnt sleep too well that night.. even though it passed fairly quickly
Well I wouldn’t have slept very well either in that situation lol 🥶⚡️🌩️
Your favourite part of Bergen, just below the funicular(train that goes to fløyen), is also close to the place where the city's drug addicts gather. Usually they pose little danger, but better to stay away from the area behind the McDonalds that you see in the video. If you follow the small street behind it you will see quite a few broken people, some by drugs and some by alcohol. Usually gathered close to the church Korskirken. I've lived all my life in Bergen, and love the city, would say the area from skansen firestation and out into sandviken is my favourite with all the wooden houses. Overall Bergen is a very safe city, on saturday night though there are lots of drunk people, which means there will be guys fighting each other in the street and police will be busy.
It sounds very similar to Glasgow and the area around Central Station/McDonald’s… 😅 same kind of issues: drugs, fights and police…
Drivers are required by law to stop for pedestrians and many people just walk out without looking both ways so we are always prepared to stop.
Bergen is not completely safe and it is getting worse so take care of your self.
Lol Norway is the one country I feel totally safe in as I grew up here (90’s and 2000’s) and living here still (Oslo). Tho of course always take precautions especially as a single/lone woman. No matter how safe, don’t go out alone at night if in a big city and in certain parts due to junkies, homeless people, gangs, and in general drunk people. Apart from that, it’s fine. Just know your surroundings and the social norms and cues on how to act. Don’t stare people in the eyes. Seen as rude. And even if just curious it can lead to being jumped if the wrong people, like youngsters and teen age gangs. Let people know where you’re going. In general Scandinavia and the Nordics in general is safe. Especially Iceland.
I travelled by myself to Norway and Iceland and wandered alone in Copenhagen, too, and I must say I always felt very safe in Nordic/Scandinavian countries… Perhaps the best places to start travelling alone as a woman, if one has never tried before. By the way, I really loved Oslo!! Especially the sauna in front of the Opera (dip in the fjord included) while it was snowing. Wow!
You mean young migrant gangs. There, I corrected it for you
Hi camila you are so beautyful your smile supper
Hi there, thank you very much!
Good that you "are not scared in the slightest", but you should still be careful. Bergen is safer than most cities but you still need to be vigilant. Things happen even in Bergen, more and more over the last years.
Eh...
One of my friends played "Gunnar" in that movie :D
Omg! Can’t believe it! 😂 Ahah that’s so cool 😎
Its much better feeling walking the mountain up, takes around 30 minutes only ;)
3:05 It's the law. Huge fines for not stopping for pedestrians at crossovers.
In Italy the pedestrian is supposed to have precedence, too, but the reality is very different… 😅
Bergen is the safest place ever ! Trust me on this
You like Indian food Camilla
Love it!
I want to travel across Italy (and Japan) to explore all the diffrent type of food you have there. You should tasted the "norwegian pizza" they are bad, but that is what we have. So much bad pizza resturants here in Norway
Ahah next time I’ll try a bad Norwegian pizza 🤣
@@camyinwonderworld Yeah, our Grandiosa frozen pizza is the most sold pizza about 24 millions a year i think. That is what are grown up with we dont know better. I want Napolitana, al taglio, Romana etc
Everyone is surprised when I say this, but we do have frozen pizza in Italy too and personally I like some brands (Pizza Ristorante). I tried pizza in Naples for the first time last summer, it’s really something different… I live in Scotland and in Glasgow Paesano Pizza makes an incredible wood oven Neapolitan pizza 💯
@@camyinwonderworld How do you rate Ristorante? We have that here also. Want good pizza with fresh ingridens, fjordilatte, nduja, pruscuitto etc. My favorite pasta is Tagliolini alla San Daniele. Antonio Sorrentinos (Italian Sequista on yt) lasagna etc.
@@philip4588I actually like Ristorante, my favourite one in Italy was the tuna and onion, but I can’t find it here in Scotland. Yes fresh ingredients are definitely better, if you want to try mozzarella fior di latte you’d like mozzarella di bufala and burrata on pizza, as well! Ahh I’m getting hungry! Ahah
I wouldn't actively be seeking dark back alleys at night regardless of where I was in the world, but on a general basis Bergen is considered as a safe place walking around, also for women of course. In some parts of the city you can encounter drug addicts and alcoholics, but they will not bother other people, except for maybe asking if you have some money for them. If your answer is no, they will respect that. I'm glad you enjoyed your stay 🙂
Did you try the 3 kroneren sossage?
@@OlavAlexanderMjelde I didn’t actually, I don’t eat meat 😬
@@camyinwonderworld ah, I did eat your haggis - while in Scotland.
If you eat fish and come back to Bergen there is a place called "Pingvinen" (the penguin). It makes food more like home made.
@@OlavAlexanderMjelde I do eat fish at the moment, thanks for the tip! I ate very well in Bergen 🤩
Cats in norway dont respond to that type of cat calling, you are doing it wrong. It is pssst pssst sound :D
Thanks for this precious information, so next time I’m in Norway I’ll be able to approach Norwegian cats, which is a fundamental part of travelling.
@@camyinwonderworld S sound i key. I usually go pus pus pus as thats another word for cat i norewegian.
Im norwegian - from Bergen. Dont be mistaken - a girl alone is not safe in Bergen in a park at night - you might be raped. The city is in this matter like all small and big cities in Europe. This is not 1980 when i travelled the world.
Norwegians are like in most civilized societies law abiding and peaceful people.
Our well lit cities should be considered safe.
In all of norway is free go out Crime islow Yes bad tings happen But in general No So Enjoy Be free
Thanks for watching and commenting! 😄Exactly, bad things happen everywhere, but crime is low and I felt safe, it's important to trust your gut...
I live in Bergen ( lucky me),but Bergen is not all beauty.The suburbs are quite a disaster.And the part of the city called Nygård is ugly and soulless,unfortunately.
Yeah, every place has its ugly neighbourhoods! I wasn’t there that long and basically always stayed in the city centre. The furthest I’ve been from the city was the university and harbour part.