$20 for fish and chips?

We are in Bergen, Norway now. Lovely little port city, and the second largest in the country, I think, with around 200,000 people. Norway is, however, ridiculously expensive. Please send money. I´m serious. I paid $20 for fish and chips and a bottle of water yesterday at the fish market soon after we got to our hostel. But I needed it after being molested on the plane.

As we sat in the modern and carefully designed Copenhagen airport we watched and listened to a very drunk Swedish man. He was singing, yelling and drinking some more. Guess who had the privilege of sitting next to him? I had to repeatedly tell him not to touch me or breathe on me...and by that I mean grope me or try to kiss me. Between the singing, yelling and the not having had a shower in days this drunk sailor was awful. Then things went from bad to worse when he explained to the woman on the aisle (also a Swede) that he had been in prison and his girlfriend had killed herself (I can understand why). Though I think she could have done the world a favor and just killed him...because I sure wanted to. Or at least the SAS flight attendants who served him two more gins (minus the tonics...he handed one back to the gal and stuffed the other in the seatback pocket) and a beer. I am actually in the process of writing to SAS. I think they owe me a flight. The entire plane could hear him and probably smell him -- and I had to sit next to him.

What else is going on? My entire class is sharing a room in Bergen. Not nearly as nice as the hostel in Copenhagen, but not nearly as bad as some other hostels I´ve been in, i.e. Athens. The really bad thing about this hostel? The shower "rooms." Just rooms with 5 or 6 water-saving shower heads. And I can live with the mass nudity, it´s the eco-showers that bother me -- the water is not hot and the water shuts off after less than a minute. These Scandinavians and their environmental protection!

But don´t think I´m not having a good time. The town is beautiful and it´s good to be meeting innovative designers and thinkers.