1. How to get to the hotel:
To get to the city centre take the airport coach from the airport. You will find the bus just outside the terminal building. You pay your ticket at the buss, and there are cash points inside the terminal building. The ticket costs 80 NOK. The coach leaves about every 15 minutes, and the trip to the city centre takes about 30-40 minutes, depending on the traffic. You should leave the coach at Festplassen, and from there you walk about 5-10 minutes to Grand Hotel Terminus, situated next to the railway station. At this link you will find a map: http://www.gulesider.no/kart/map.c?q=zander+kaaes+gate&imgt=MAP&id=a_1972009
The hotel should be easy to find, the easiest walking route is to walk along the small lake (lille LungegÅrdsvann) on the right hand side until you reach the end, walk left and cross the street. You will see the railway station, and the hotel is at the left hand side of the station building.
We have made reservations at Grand Hotel Terminus in the participants’ names, so you can check in when you get there.
Here is the hotels website: http://www.grand-hotel-terminus.no/CDA/homepg.aspx
2. Program on Monday 12th
As you’ll know from the program the first point on the agenda is dinner at Lille Escalon at 19.00. It’s about 15 minutes to walk from the hotel. We’ll meet you in the reception at the hotel at 18.40, and walk to the restaurant with you. For those who would like meet up in the restaurant you’ll get map and directions in the reception.
3. Program on Tuesday 13th
The seminar starts at 9.00 and we are spending the day at the Faculty of Law. The Faculty is about 15 minutes to walk from the hotel, and we’ll meet you in the reception at 08.30 to walk you there. However, Bergen has a quite small city centre, so it will be easy to find your own way. As you can see from the programme, the seminar lasts until 17.30 at Tuesday, and we’ll have lunch at the Faculty of Law.
Dinner will be held at Fløien, which is a restaurant on the top of one of the seven mountains surrounding Bergen. To get there we need to take a cable car, Fløibanen, which is one of Bergen’s, and Norway’s, most famous tourist attractions. We hope for nice weather so you can see the view from the mountain. we’ve included a link to Fl
øibanen here: http://www.floibanen.com/default.asp
Fløibanen’s lower station is located in the centre of Bergen, about 10-15 minutes walk from the hotel. We’ll meet you in the reception at the hotel at 19.15 to walk you there, and show you some of old town on the way. For those who would like to get there on their own, meet at the funicular station at 19.35 to catch the cable car.
Dinner will be at Fløien Folkerestaurant. http://www.bellevue-restauranter.no/comweb.asp?ID=10&segment=4&session.
4. Wednesday 14th
The seminar will start at 9.00 at Vil Vite-senteret, which is a conference centre and museum owned by the University of Bergen. We’ll meet you in the reception at 08.30. Lunch will be at Spisestedet PÅ Høyden, a close-by restaurant specialising on food from the western part of Norway.
The seminar will end at 15.00. You can leave your bags at the hotel, as you can catch the airport coach close to the hotel.
5. Weather and clothes
Bergen is well-known to be a rainy city, but May is usually the sunniest month of the year. However, we will advise you to bring an umbrella. Temperatures are likely to be somewhere between 5-15 C. To check put the weather forecast before you go use www.yr.no.
At the places we are going to during the meeting people will tend to dress quite informal, except at the restaurant at Fløien where people usually dress up a bit.
6. Contact information and sights
If you have any questions or problems before or during your stay in Bergen, please contact us:
Jørn
Øyrehagen Sunde: + 47 90544137 or Hilde Ruus: + 47 984 07 660. (hilde.ruus@jur.uib.no)
At the hotel you will get maps and information on sights in Bergen, but for those of you that would like to have a look at Bergen before you get here we’ve included a few links:
Information for tourists: http://www.visitbergen.com/
The fjords of western Norway: http://www.fjords.com/gowest1.htm
Bergen museum: http://bergenmuseum.uib.no/index.php
Webcam of Bergen: http://www.bt.no/kamera/
All the links we’ve included in this mail have versions in English.