Showing posts with label Norway. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Norway. Show all posts

Friday, August 16, 2019

Stavanger to Arneberg Norway

July 26 - August 1, 2019

We saw a lot in our last week in Norway. When we came to our border crossing point into Sweden, we weren't ready to leave. We decided to stay in Norway for a few more days and turned north. It was wonderful.

City park in Stavanger

It was the first day of Gladmat, the annual food festival, when we visited Stavanger.

Of course lefsa was available. We have been eating lefsa for the past month. It was sad when our last package was gone.

Street art along the waterfront

Gamle Stavanger - old town filled with 18th and 19th century wooden houses.

We visited our friends Erik and Randi for a couple of days. We were very lucky to enjoy delicious home cooked norwegian meals.

Madland Havn - our free camping spot in a small harbor along Hwy 44.

Huge boulders were used to fence the pasture just behind our parking spot.

We watched a beautiful sunset.

Sogndalstrand - love these seaside villages.

Many of the houses in Sogndalstrand had small lending libraries on the front of the house.

 

Hwy 44 - this section of the road uses tunnels and cliff hanging switch backs to get to the fjord below.

House under the mountain.

Hwy 44 - some stretches of the road are very narrow.

Wildflowers in every direction at Molen.

Flekkefjord - We arrived in pouring down rain, but luckily it stopped so we were able to get out and enjoy the town.




Wooden boats in Stavern

Trail out to Verdens Ende - The World's End translated to english.


Vippefyret - a replica of an old lighthouse.



Hof Church

Arneberg Church - Hof and Arneberg is the area that Patti's family immigrated to the US from.

Wednesday, August 14, 2019

Setesdal and Telemark regions of Norway

July 21-25, 2019

We spent 5 days driving around the Setesdal and Telemark regions of southern Norway. The area has lakes and mountain views in every direction. We had a mix of rain, mountain hugging clouds, and clear blue skies. It didn't matter what the weather was, we enjoyed our time spent in the area.

Wateralls are a common sight.


Roads in Norway have lots of tunnels. In this area there were small one lane roads around the tunnels (mainly for bicycles who are not allowed through the tunnels). We tried to take as many of these alternate routes as we could. The views were great, much better then a tunnel.







Road side view.

Rygnestad Farm Museum - The house was from the 16th century.



Rest area near Valle.

Farm house - A sod roof is very popular in this area.

Mountain huts 

Our camping spot on Hwy 41 along Nisser Lake



Beautiful high mountain drive from Rysstad to Lysebotn.





From Lysebotn we took a 2 1/2 hour ferry ride down the fjord to Lauvvik.

View of Preikestolen, Pupit Rock, from the ferry. Look close and you can see people looking down. This is a very popular hike.

The narrow flat top rock in the top middle of the photo is Preikestolen.

Lysefjordbrue - another beautiful bridge over a fjord.