Two hours from London lies a city where the sun never sets. Bergen is Norway’s second biggest city - about half the size of the capital Oslo - and sits on the nation’s south-western coast, and is just one-hour-and-55 minutes from London by plane. During the height of the summer, the days are so long that the sun rises at around 4.

30am and doesn’t set until around 11pm. Very interestingly, the city was once Scandinavia’s biggest, but is now seventh behind: Aarhus, Malmö, Gothenburg, Oslo, Copenhagenk, and Stockholm. And the city wasn’t always called Bergen either, once upon a time it was Bjørgvin - its original Norse name.

In fact in Icelandic and Faroese, languages which resemble Old Norse, the city’s called Björgvin. READ MORE: The European city every bit as beautiful as Amsterdam but it's not swamped with tourists What to do Seeing the Fjords there is an absolute must. For those who’re unaware of what a fjord is, they’re long, narrow sea inlets with steep sides or cliffs.

There are plenty of them, but the ones which stand out are the ones with the high mountains on either side, and are located to the north and south of Bergen. And if you’re really lucky, you may catch a majestic glimpse of the orca in the wild. Visiting the old Hanseatic wharf is another must-do while there.

It’s a gorgeous UNESCO World Heritage Site where the city’s first buildings were, making it a huge part of Bergen’s identity for centuries. To get a real feel of what life w.