Travel to Skei
Enroute: we took a ferry, accompanied by a large group of sports cars; had to wait for an hour as a car had broken down in a tunnel; met an English lady in a camper by a lovely lake (who took our photograph).
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Around Skei
We stayed in a lovely site in Skei for one night only – a bit like the country and western singer who was on stage that night at the site!
The next day we passed the Boyabreen glacier at Fjaerland. It is an offshoot of the Jostedalsbreen glacier, which at nearly 500 square km is the largest glacier in continental Europe.
Geiranger campsite
Our campsite in Geiranger included another Eriba owner, Erik, from Copenhagen, who was coming home from the Russian border! His car was an electric VW, which was a bold choice as towcar to the north of Norway.
Geiranger Fjord is another beauty, steep mountains on all sides, and especially pretty with the good weather we were having. We saw several large cruise ships come in to the village at the end.
We also saw a UK registered yacht moored, and spoke to the family onboard. They had sailed from Scotland via Shetland. Geiranger is so far inland that it took then 2 x 8 hour days motoring to reach it from the open sea.
Behind the site is a viewpoint called Dalsnibba, at 1,500m above sea level. For a small (!) fee, we drove to the top and looked above the mountain tops.
Geiranger walks
Eidsvagg
150 km further north, our most northern campsite. Near a lake, and full of deerflies that quite like to suck your blood (and from Daisy’s nose…), perhaps why the site was virtually empty. The lake was also quite full of beautiful waterlilies, on which the blooms closed at night.
The weather was so hot – so we swam in the fjord nearby. We also had a huge thunderstorm one night, with thunder, lightning and heavy rain for several hours.
Atlantic Ocean Road, and Kristiansund
Kristiansund is a medium sized town situated on 3 islands, with fjords separating each one. The central waterways allow cargo and cruise ships right into the middle of the town. A tiny ferry, operating since 1954, links passengers between the islands – although the three are all now also connected by road bridges.
The surrounding area is also islands, and roads constructed with bridges and causeways link the main ones together. One part of the road is particularly pretty, and is marketed heavily as the Atlantic Ocean Road.
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