This weekend was my second to last weekend in Bergen before traveling. Time has gone by quickly. On Saturday, the sun was shining. Stephi and I decided to hike Løvstakken, mountain number five for me. Stephi had climbed it during the seven mountain tour, and figured she could find the trail head. However, we ended up on a much smaller path up the mountain. Sometimes the trail was non-existent. We weaved our way up the mountain, and reached the top for beautiful views of the city. However, I had acquired a little friend on our mountain quest. I was now the [View Full Entry]

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Highpoint of Østfold. Since this would be a total waste of time for any foreigner to read, I will continue in Norwegian. If you for some wacked reason want to visit this top, feel free to contact me. Norwegian: Ok, så vi la ut på vår fjerde fylkestopp. Kjør til Rømskog kommune i retning fra Oslo. Etter noen kilometer kommer en avkjøring til Tuckfors på venstre side, fortsett rett fram her. Rett etter skiltet vil det komme en bom på høyre hånd, så kjører man litt videre forbi en bom nummer to og på den tredje bommen svinger man av og [View Full Entry]

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We have now taken the Toyota for a test drive through Norway. On Monday morning we left my parent's place and headed to Sorsele in the west to see my old friend Bodil. We spent two days in her lovely cabin right by a lake. We were meant to do a lot of fishing, but unfortunately it rained constantly without a single break the whole time. By Wednesday morning we gave up and set course for Norway. We crossed the border in the high mountains near Tärnaby and then continued down the E6 towards Trondheim. Just north of Trondheim in the [View Full Entry]

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I've arrived safe, but road-weary in Trondheim. I'm going to have a rest day here tomorrow (so I can watch the football final!!!) and then we'll see. I'm thinking about taking a train just a bit to catch up on a couple of lost days. In that way I can enjoy the end more rather than having to race to get there. I should say I have now got a flight booked back home,, from Stockholm to Edinburgh! May sound crazy - but there is method to my madness... you'll see in a bit! Anyway I'm about to get kicked out [View Full Entry]

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Jotunheimen is the national park that contains all of Norway's high mountains over 2400m and highway 5 runs right by to 1434m over 20km from sea level, an obvious attraction for me on my panniered up bike. I was lucky. I started the climb late in the day (queue 3rd spoke breakage!!), so there was no way I was going to make the top. It wouldn't have been practical to camp up there in any case. After chatting with a friendly guy at the tourist info at the base town, I decided to try for Turtagrø 1000m up the pass. The [View Full Entry]

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Onto Geiranger, and I had no idea from my map that I'd be making another snowbound climb up to just over 1000m (from about 500m this time). The previous night I had a lovely campsite next to Pollfoss, a huge gushing section of rapids, in a nice fir tree forest (my last midge-free night! but more on that later...) The road up and over to Geiranger was really spectacular with an amazing first view straight down 1000m to the fjord below chockablock with cruise ships. A had a bit of a rest in the town (touristy as hell, but nonetheless a [View Full Entry]

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I pushed on from Trollstigen via Andalsnes. There I got my wheel fixed (170 kroner) and had the good (or bad) luck to notice a slow puncture at the shop. We found the culprit, a little thorn stuck in the tyre. Lucky I guess that we had the wheel apart anyway - but now I've lost my no puncture record. I think I made about 2000 miles puncture-free though - must be some kind of record! That night I pushed on (i had some vague hope about making Trondheim the next day, but gauging distances is hard). Despite coming out of [View Full Entry]

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Hey everyone, well, I'm now in Tysfjord past the Arctic circle. In the last couple of days though, it has mainly been scenic driving, which I have lots of photo's but unfortunatly I can't upload them on this computer, will I'll try next time. I'm really excited though, with our Viking Olympics, we are winning at the moment, so far we have won every activity. 2 nights ago we had to play soccer, it was so much fun, our driver did a nudie run which was quite funny, I couldn't get a photo of it though because I was playing, so [View Full Entry]

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It’s been extremely rainy for about two weeks now. However, yesterday we got a break in the weather. I took advantage of the weather and traveled with my professor out to one of the islands outside of Bergen. While he worked on a research thesis with another professor, I walked down the road across a few bridges to another island about 4km away. The weather was beautiful for walking. The sun was shining at it was about 65-70 degrees out. We haven’t had a “warm” day in a while. I leave warm in quotation marks because it’s all relative when it [View Full Entry]

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Da e vi endelig i gang, vi har venta lenge på dinne dagen, å no e den endeli her=) vi e så speent=)) E dro jo til oslo allerde på mandag, å har hatt nokken flotte daga hos tante vibeke å hennes familie. å e har kosa me masse=) i går kom aleksander til oslo etter to uke på jobb. så natt til i dag bodde vi på hotell i oslo sentrum:) va like kjekt som allti å se han igjen!!:) i dag har vi gjort alt mulig for å få tida til å gå, så vi har spist på aker [View Full Entry]

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