Edvard Grieg is Bergen's favourite son and his summer house at Troldhaugen is now a museum. A local guide, Inge, takes us there to a lunch time concert of Grieg played by Joachim Kwetzinski, a piano student, and it was wonderful! A concert hall has been built on the site with a huge window overlooking the lake / photo 1.
He played a delightful programme finishing with my favourite Wedding Day at Troldhaugen.
Inge took us down the hill through green and mysterious Troll Valley / photo 2 to where Edvard and his wife Nina are buried in a simple hole in a granite wall overlooking the lake and receiving the last rays of the sun.
Then we had a ride up a mountain on the funicular to a spread-out view of Bergen below, reminding me of Daisy's and my ride on the cog railway in Wellington.
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