Nancy and I laugh when we say it, but we joke that wherever we are in the world, from North Pole to South, the sun always seems to shine on us. It just seems to be another way G_D
blesses and watches out for us, because as every traveler knows, rain on your vacation is not what you want. I mean, who wants to spend all that money and energy to get someplace- then not be able to see
it because it’s raining?
We were up one of the fiords in Norway. It is another country in possession of some of he loveliest geography on earth. Valleys and vistas of near unparalleled beauty that all but literally
take your breath away.
While waiting in the train station in Myrdal, we struck up a conversation with a young couple, backpacking through Europe with their 2 year old child. They were telling us about the
price they paid for touring through this glorious country: Rain. Rain, and more rain.
Someone nearby overheard the conversation, and remarked the country gets 70 or 80 inches of rainfall each year, and that it usually rains or snows 260 days, give or take, of the 365. “We
can believe it, the young mother replied.. “We’ve been here 17 days now, and it rained every day for the first two weeks, but thank Goodness, it let up day before yesterday”.
Nancy and I looked at one another and smiled. We had arrived in Norway the day it stopped raining...
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