Aalesund, Norway

June 27
I am going to try not to bore you with tooooo many waterfalls and colorful houses and little streets with quaint stores.  It seems that Norway is full of them and we are having trouble differentiating one from another.  You must be having the same problem.
We are starting to have Dejavu’s.  Didn’t we see that village yesterday?  Isn’t that the same waterfall we saw 5 days ago?  Anyway, on we go.
Aalesund is another town on a fjord.  It had a terrible fire in 1904, where 80% of the town burned down.  The buildings, like most in Norway, were built of wood and built very close together.  Most of the towns we have visited recently have had terrible fires.  When Aalesund was destroyed,  Kaiser Wilhelm, who often vacationed there, sent his warships with supplies and rebuilt the city in the  Art Nouveau style.  So at least this town has some different style buildings.
Today we took a little train around the town.
                                         
We first went to a view point.  Wonderful.  I could post 50 pictures….I won’t…
      
                                             
No, it is not your imagination and you are not seeing double.  The ship docked behind ours is an exact duplicate of ours.  She used to be a Princess ship and now she is with Oceania. 
So here are some pictures of some of the same kind of buildings and some of the Art Nouveau style.

              
          
                                            
Can you tell much difference?
Here is the view from the ship and the first sunset we have seen in over a week.  By the way, it occurred at midnight.  I couldn’t stay awake long enough to see the sunrise, which I was told happened 3 hours later.