Fish Soup

To me, the only remedy for long rainy days is soup. The warm comfort of a good filling fish soup is one of the few things that can make up for the lack of sun. The people of Bergen, Norway’s second largest city, need that remedy more often than most. Situated at the end of a fjord, the city, known to most Norwegians as “the Rainy City,” is trapped between seven ragged mountains. Warm, humid air from the Atlantic Ocean is blown into the fjord by the more or less constant westerly wind and then trapped by the cold mountains, causing rain more than 260 days a year. People dress appropriately, but a raincoat or umbrella is seldom far away. You will find strategically located umbrella-vending machines in and around town.