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Published: April 23rd 2015
Greetings from Lillehammer! If you have been following along the itinerary, you would know this is not our original destination for this evening! 😊 Here's the story... We woke up in Flam and had a nice breakfast at the hotel and enjoyed a quick walk around the little wharf. We knew we had a long drive ahead, so we hit the road to Geirangerfjord. The drive started out really nice- we took another ferry and the scenery along the Sofnedjord was lovely. Well, the further we drove, the snowier and snowier it got! We reached the point where we were supposed to turn to go to Geiranger, but the road was closed! More like the road didn't exist - there was at least 10 Feet of snow on the road! After trying to sort things out on the map, we realized there was no alternate route up the mountain and decided to continue (along the open road) into the next major town, Otta, to see if we could find a room for the night. Well, only one hotel was operating in Otta, and it was full. So, we continued on. And on. And on. We arrived in Lillehammer around 7pm, after
being in the car for about 8.5 hours! We were pretty hungry and tired and thankful to have a bed to sleep on tonight! We walked a short distance down to the city center and had some dinner and a couple of beers. Now Ernie has promised I can sleep in a little tomorrow since we don't have such a long drive to get back to Eastern Norway! Not sure what we will do tomorrow, but I'm sure it won't involve a lot of driving! 😊
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janet currin
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Glad you found a place to stay after a long day in the car! I know how that goes:/. Hopefully you guys can get some rest. There was a travel show on Norway the other night and they showed one of those old wooden churches. pretty cool!