Quiz time

Clearly, I am not a particularly didactic travel blogger. A little eccentric maybe. But educational? Not routinely. However, typically once in a trip I throw in a quiz. Let's do that now while I am waiting, tired but not able to nap, for our last chasing lights tour tonight.

First, as an aside, there are other beautiful sights here in Norway besides the Northern Lights. According to our guide, Thomas, one of the owners of the Chasing Lights company, there are some 150,000 islands in Norway. So we picked up two new beach samples for our sand collection at home while we were here.

Another of Norway's natural wonders are the fjords.

So first question?
What is the difference between and fjord and a bay?

Apparently a fjord IS a bay but rather than being created by erosion it was created by glacial activity resulting in steep sides.

Next question.

Here in Tromso people refer to the cute little church in town and the bigger, newer cathedral across the water. But the church is really the cathedral and the cathedral is really the church.

So what determines which is which? (My Catholic friends might want to field this one.)

Apparently, the cathedral is the principal church in a Catholic diocese where the Bishop has his 'cathedra' or throne.

So, now a picture of us at a fjord:

 

 

And off we go, again.