2 posts tagged “holiday”

To start with the reindeer (these are connected to our adventures on the 17th of may and the snowed in roads):





Aren't these the cutest? We saw them right after we discovered that the main road to Geiranger was still snowed in. We had just called the travelling agency to ask them how on earth we could get to Geiranger, and they happily told us we had to take a 200 km detour, which meant another 4 or 5 hour drive, on top of the 6 or 7 hour drive we had already behind us. Poor Sean. Seeing these animals made everything a tiny bit better, though. The 6 hour drive before the detour was stunningly beautiful, I have to say. We drove past the most lovely lakes and up wonderfully scary mountains (the main frustration with having to turn around was that we had to drive all the way back down a magnificently scary mountain road, with loads of scary hairpin turns, but beautiful views). On our way we saw many people walking around in traditional clothing as it was the national day, the only downside was that the shops were closed and most restaurants etc were as well, so it wasn't the best of days to have a long drive ahead of you...






Some more snow we had to deal with during the holiday. Advice: unless you still have snowtyres and/or really love snow, please plan your holiday a bit later than may! It is outside holiday season (which is mainly a good thing) which means that we spent one part of our trip in the middle of nowhere in an abandoned holiday resort. We had to drive for 20 minutes for the nearest shop because the shop on the resort was still closed. We didn't really mind, I had anticipated this and we had carefully planned ahead: we made sure we always had something to eat for dinner on a day we had to drive to a new bungalow. But remember: they do not mention this in the information you get from the travelling agency! So if you don;t know these things, you may be in for a surprise after a long drive. The only downside was that because the resort was abandoned, we searched literally for hours before we knew where to get our keys. (Again, something not mentioned by the travelling agency).

One of the most wonderful things about this trip to Norway: we actually were close to Bergen!







Yay, so finally, after 5 years, I was able to visit this lovely city again :) Sean also thought it was beautiful, and we were extremely lucky with the weather. Bergen is the rainiest city in Europe, and it was pouring down as we drove to Bergen, but, magically, the rain stopped when we arrived and it only started raining a bit again as we drove back again to our bungalow in Voss! This year's holiday (which we booked yesterday) we are also close to Bergen again, I hope we will be able to visit Edvard Grieg's house this year. And Ole Bull's house, which is a lovely house on an island near Bergen.



Of course we visited the odd stavechurch (I am wild about those things and can wander around for hours trying to find runes and wood carvings :)) this one was on our way to Geiranger (see above for our wonderful journey with reindeer and snowed in roads).

In Geiranger we did the cruise, which provided some lovely pictures, but for us it was a shortcut to the main road, as the fasted road was still closed and we had to drive to our last bungalow.







One of the main sites on this cruise are the waterfalls, the most famous being "The Seven Sisters" we were lucky, as the amount of water of course depends on the time of the year and the amount of melting snow: