Sandviken Sjøbad
Free seaside bathing spot with jetty, diving tower and small beach beside a historic shipyard estate.
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This guide to Sandviken Sjøbad in Bergen follows Rasmus Rolfsen, a young shipwright from Kristiansand who reached the city on Christmas Eve seventeen eighty-one, and the estate he built on this shore. It touches on his marriage to Elsebe Kramer, a battered Russian ship that landed in his hands, and the grandson who turned from ships to malt. Best heard out on the jetty, looking back up the slope toward the museum grounds.
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