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Europe » Norway » Southern Norway » Gol July 18th 2022

Oslo Airport - Gol/Al (around 200km) Light driving for my first day - I wanted to get a feel for the car, the roads and all that. (Also, let me weep at the gas prices around $3.10 a litre) Its pretty slow goings here - even on the highway it’s usually only 80km, few small sections at 90km. But of course a lot of the roads are curvy with the scenery which slows things down. All good, all part of the experience :) The water was on the driver side most of the drive which made for lovely scenery, but not many pit stops. I’m really bad at gauging pit stop entrances when they’re just the little pavement spots rather than the photo stop areas (I need to figure this out haha) - since the water ... read more
Trusty Olaf
Another photo stop
Cute little lodge

Europe » Norway » Southern Norway » Gol June 25th 2014

Gol to Kongsberg 21 June - longest day of the year Kongsberg to Treugen 22 June. to Kristiansund 23 June We left Gol at about 9.00am and headed SW along yet another beautiful road. We saw several stave churches along this journey. Norway has no shortage of wood so everything is made of wood. We were climbing the mountains towards the snow fields in Geilo. Geilo has become one of Norway's most popular destinations, conveniently located between Bergen & Oslo. It has gained a reputation as a winter sport centre. We saw plenty of evidence of this but only a small amount of snow in the upper slopes. Around the town there are 33 alpine peaks, 17 ski lifts, 3 snowboard parks and 500kms of prepared tracks up the mountains, the highest being 1,178m with good ... read more
Our camping site just outside Kongberg
Heddal Stave Church - biggest in Norway (4)
Folk Church Service in Heddal  (2)




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