Hardanger Odda

... Det var et naust, helt ok og rimelig. Og bad og toalett-rom der var helt nytt, så det var rent og trivelig på alle måter. Bra utsikt også, men for et regnvær! Fikk en liten smak av hvordan det er å bo på et sted med nedbørsrekord, det øste ned og inn, hadde satt opp vinduet på feil side så det blåste inn, i tillegg lekket det litt fra taket, men ikke over sengen heldigvis.

Det siste nye i Odda er ein cafê med namnet "Smelt". Den finn du i den gamle containerverkstaden på den tidlegare Smelteverkstomta, driven av keramikar og dagleg leiar Reidun Thorsen. Men Thorsen er ikkje åleine om å stille ut kunstverka sine her ...

To dagar på rad diska mammo opp med deilig grillmat i hagen sin i Odda. Kotelettar, kvitløksbaguettar, grillbein, pølser, salatar og himmelsk heimelaga potetsalat var noko av det som stod på menyen. Balder fulgte godt med - det kunne jo henda nokon var slepphendte...:-)<br><br>For dei som les bloggen min via Facebook og endå ikkje heilt har skjønt det: for å sjå bloggen i sin heilskap må du klikke der det står "Jump to the full entry &amp; travel map" :-)

... the sea and islands on the other side. From within the city, you would have little idea of it's surroundings. We hiked further and further up, until it plateaued and we were in the clouds, which were raining on us a little. It was super damp anyways. The land is very jagged and rolling, with stone everywhere coming out of the grass. There were radio towers and old buildings that one person said were built by Germans ...

... train - the one that runs between Bergen and Oslo. We spent an hour on the train seeing more spectacular scenery. We got off at Voss and had a very nice lunch (lots of seafood) at a restaurant on the lake at Voss. Apparently Voss is a well known ski resort in Norway. The lake is very attractive as is the old church. It was Sunday so most of the shops were shut. After Voss we travelled by coach to ...

... so I can't. I've spent about 10 minutes trying to get through to this site to do my updates, but it keeps crashing these machines I had to move to a new one) And to top it off, I can't access the pictures from my camera at these terminals so can't do the uploads. That, coupled with the fact that I've been carrying my pack through crowded trains and tube stations has left me in a FOUL mood. OK - now I feel better. Now - back to Bergen. Bergen is the second largest city ...

... gave her a "birthday boa" so she could be one of the girls. She is definitely a little princess. She's a little diva at six! She's already into reading chapter books; an amazing little girl. She speaks better Norwegian than all of us and has only been here a few months. She's funny. She told us that since it was her birthday she was the one who got the prince charming ...

... like 20 miles away from everything, we couldn't figure out how people lived there. When we got to Oslo the first thing we did was stop by the tourist center in the train station. They told us that we weren't going to find any hotel rooms in the city. They were right. We tried like 5 nice hotels and they were all booked. We started walking into the not so nice part of town and we found a place that we still don't remember the name of, but we know ...

... Concerto in A minor which he actually wrote during his time in Copenhagen. The museum was interesting and showed a nice history of his life and family. Unlike many artists and composers of his era, Grieg was actually quite renowned during his time and taught in Leipzig, Copenhagen and Bergen and traveled on many concert tours all over Europe. As we traipsed all over the grounds the most interesting thing we found was by far Edvard and his wife Nina's (also his ...

... Tower and Haakans Hall, both build in the 13th Century. They were actually destroyed in 1944 when a German Merchant ship carrying gunpowder blew up in Bergen Harbor and have been totally rebuilt. We made our sautéed our fish for dinner and made some (gasp!) frozen vegetables...it actually was quite tasty. After dinner we headed to a nice little Irish pub off the Torget overlooking the harbor and met an older British couple that had moved to Naples, FL in 1986. They were full of ...