Month: October 2020

Let’s visit Bergen

With Bergen we were now in the second largest city of Norway, but with 284.000 inhabitants still a small one. The mountains rise steep behind the coast and only the surrounding islands provide space for the suburbs of Bergen. The city of Bergen was founded around 1070 and in 1350 a “Kontor” or trading post of the Hanseatic …

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Hiking the Old King’s Road

By chance we had discovered a hiking route leading along a historic road connecting the East with the West of Norway. This route is called Kongevegen (King’s Road) and leads over the mountainous Filefjell from Laerdal to Valdres. Already in the evening we managed to walk along this old road in the Galdane section. The …

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Geiranger Fjord

After driving over the Trollstigen we continued the scenic route to Geiranger Fjord, which awaited us with sun and great views. In the afternoon we reached the area of the Jostedalsbreen – the biggest glacier of Europe. From Eidsdal it was a comfortable drive up into the mountains and suddenly the road dropped down into …

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Cruising the Trollstigen

Leaving the coast we headed along the fjords to Åndalsnes, from where we wanted to tackle the most famous road of Norway, the Trollstigen (Trolls Ladder in English). There are 11 hairpin bends leading up at the end of the valley with the 240 metres high Stigfossen waterfall gushing down the rocks. The Trollstigen reminded …

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The Atlantic Road

We reached Kristiansund and from there continued over the Atlantic Road, leading over twisted bridges from one little island to the next. Afterwards we took a hike from the northernmost sand dunes to the Nordneset light beacon which watches over a very dangerous stretch of coast. At Farstadstranda we learned that these are the northernmost …

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Trondheim

With Trondheim we had reached a real city again, and a very beautiful one. We did some shopping at the outskirts before we drove fearlessly into the centre, parked the car on a legal parking and went to explore the colourful city. A settlement was founded here in 997 as a trading post, originally called …

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The prehistoric reindeer hike

Continuing our route south, at first the weather wasn’t really convincing that we were driving in the right direction. But later we finally came into a warmer region. We decided to take a little detour and stop at a prehistoric site, famous for its life-size rock carvings. It was snowing in beautiful fluffy flakes and …

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On the way to Trondheim

From the Lofoten we took the ferry early in the morning to Bodø. After the 3,5 hour ride over smooth sea we reached the town on the mainland and stopped at the Norwegian Aviation Museum before we tackled the road South over the Saltfjell crossing the Arctic Circle and leaving the North of Norway behind …

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Lofoten – on the way to Å

From Flagstadøy another bridge took us to Moskenesøy, our last of the Lofoten Islands, but the one with the most magnificent places like Hamnøy, Reine and finally Å! We left our parking near Fredvang after we had waited more than half the day for the weather to improve. Initially we had planned a hike to …

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