Otternes, a farm near Flaam

I walked along the fjord on a foot/bicycle pathfor about 4km to get to the sign and the farm ...Otternes 0.5. The half Kilometer to the ancient site was almost straight up. Well not quite...

Once on the site I met a man who worked the farm but lived further down the mountain. He said his ancestors had lived on the farm in the 1700. Now he rents from his brother. He did not go into details. Sheep are on the farm and apple trees and hay fields.

During the season he leads school groups and tourist talks.

I walked around and took lots of pictures. At the edge of the farm were benches for lunch time sitting. The grass was wet and I regretted not having my waterproof boots. The Docs are going to have to suffice.

After liverwurst and eggs on crackers, not at the same time, I was ready for the return hike ...

Really ... I wander from place to place, very often stopping to take shots of shapes, colours, oddities. A woman with walking sticks passed me and passed me again on her return. She was no longer hiking; she was half running.

Below find a direct quote from Wikipekda about Otternes. Could not say it better myself.

"Evidence shows settlements from about 300 A.D. The oldest buildings, Guttormstova and Eilertstova were built about 1700. The land redistribution reform in the 1860s were not implemented in Otternes where the allocation of strip of fields lasted until 1987.

Otternes consisted originally of four farms: Tomas farm, Guttorm farm, Odda farm and Anders farm. In the nineteenth century about 30 people lived there in the farmplace. The two remaining farms were run in the old fashion until 1970. Otternes has thus been hardly affected by the passage of time, and some of the buildings appear more or less as they did in the 18th century. The cultivated landscape remains essentially intact with hills, stairs, stone walls, wells.

Otternes has been without residents since 1996. As a result of its historic flavor, the locale has therefore been a setting for several film productions.

Today Otternes serves as a rural museum and a center for the older crafts. It is also used for traditional activities as spinning, weaving, thin wafer crispbread (flat bread) baking, yarn dyeing, ale brewing and a variety of other exhibitions in the summer time."

At this web site can be found more info and a map:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otternes

On my return I once again went to the Frietheim Hotel to use the WiFi, but this time I only had a coffee. Back at the Heimly Pensonjat I had my second dinner of canned sardines. Paid my bill, put all my belongings into the pack and made myself ready for the trip to Bergen.

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