Blogs from Trøndelag, Norway, Europe - page 7

Dojechalam do Norway:) Mam sie swietnie i nie moge uwierzyc ze znow tu jestem!!! Niby nic nie mialam ogarnietego ale Bogi jak zwykle nie zawiodly i siedze wlasnie otoczona sukniami slubnymi wiszacymi nad moja glowa i pisze do Was. Jestem bardzo oszolomiona bo wlasnie zoladek dal mi znac, ze nadchodzi pora obiadowa, a gdy moj wzrok padl na zegar okazalo sie ze jest 23:00!!:) Urok bialych nocy:) Co do Bogow to zgotowali mi znacznie wiecej niz szczesliwy (choc z perypetiami, bo cudem zdazylam sie przesiasc w Oslo. Samolot prawie odlecial mi sprzed nosa.) przelot i cudowne przyjecie. Bogowie laskawi postanowili dac mi troche wolnego i urzadzic wakacje zanim rzuce sie w wir pracy - jutro jade z nowo poznanymi znajomymi (tak,tak, wyladaowalam 2 godz temu i juz wszystko wiruje w zawrotnym tempie!!!:) do ich domku letniego ... read more

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 the really high mountains the terrain was anything but easy. Eventually as the rain started around 9pm I hauled up at a little nature reserve with a shelter. It was the worst night of the ... read more

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 first 400m vertical of the climb passed easily and I was actually getting a bit over-confident as I rounded the first false summit. There the switchbacks stopped for a while, but as I found is ... read more

Eight hours after hopping off the grand old sailing ship in Bergen, I was out of bed and on my way to the airport for a 7:40am flight (wednesday 4th June) to Trondheim - about six hundred kilometres to the north-east of Bergen - which is the third-largest city in Norway, with a population of about a hundred and fifty thousand. By far the biggest tourist attraction in Trondheim - and I mean that literally as well as figuratively - is the Nidaros Cathedral, which sits right in the centre of town and was built in the late eleventh century (supposedly over the sight of St. Olav's grave - making it an important pilgrimmage sight), and is everything that you would expect a gothic cathedral to be! After spending the morning walking around the city and ... read more

We have been out of this World No, that is not true. But when you read about the place dad took us to this summer you might think so. Well, let's tell the story from the start. In the end of this summer dad told us he would bring us to Hell. We thought he was joking of course. There are limits on where you can travel and since Hell is not in this World that is definitely a place you can't go to. We have known that for a long time. Hey, we may only be cuddly toys but we are not stupid. But it turned out dad wasn't joking. He did bring us to Hell. Well, he didn't actually bring us to "Hell - home of Lucifer" but to "Hell - a small village ... read more