Hofslund Fjord Hotel Sogndal

... doing nursing and teaching English. She was off to Greenland when I left her. Anyway I took the Flam train on the 5th and it was beautiful because you climbed the mountains and viewed all of Flam, passing through cloud and into the mountain, it was better than the oslo to bergen train and it lasted a very short hour. I am back in Oslo now to begin the next leg of my journey and am finally washing my clothes.
Bye!

... the waterfall Brekkefossen, but we did not have much time because of the train departure, so we gave up the steep climbing and went to purchase the tickets. But, to our surprise, the noon train was fully booked because of the liner so we had some time for shopping and finding another cache before the next train. Firstly, we were a bit disgruntled but then it turned out to be a better choice ...

... recommended walking path which might have ended close to the glacier, but the weather was so awful that after a 30-minute exhausting walk in endless drizzle we decided to get back to our car. And before we arrived we had been soaking wet and frozen hard apart from the fact that my mum was muttering all the way there and back.

Thanks god cars have heating systems nowadays :-)

Fortunately, it stopped raining, but the sun never came up so I was freezing. Again! Mainly on the little ferry which got us across the part of the fjord. We left our car in the picturesque village of Solvorn and stepped on the island with the UNESCO Urnes stave church on foot.

We started climbing uphill passing apple orchards and tiny farm houses. The church turned up to be quite far from the port. I think that it took us more than 30 minutes to get ...

We arrived to Sogndal in late afternoon and started to look for a place to stay. The low season had already started so we found a beautiful place very easily at the Lems - very friendly couple who run private cabins. We rented a cabin with marvellous views over the fjord and mountains.
What a pity we could not use ...

... tiden lever og forandres.
Pga ekstremt høy bompris for å kjøre gjennom Frudalstunnelen valgte jeg en omvei om Gularfjellet - mer å se også - og da kunne jeg få med meg Astruptunet også. Kjørte først tilbake til Skei for å tanke og kjøpe litt undertøy og sokker (det har ikke blitt mye klesvask på turen, men nå har jeg så jeg greier meg til jeg kommer hjem). Kjørte deretter ...

OMG! What a beautiful part of the world. Alaska pales, and I mean PALES, in comparison. The fjords are spectacular! The waterfalls are spectacular! The people are lovely, and the scenery is beyond belief. We followed our guide (kinda) to the train only to discover we had about 35 minutes before it arrived, so Carol and I booked to the souveneir shops so she could look for something for Ariana. And what a cool sweater we found for her. I have never seen Carol ...

... t take a picture in time. This continued for a while, so I was entertained for quite some time. I guess I couldn't really laugh because I picked a terrible spot between two windows, so I didn't have the best views. We passed a particularly beautiful section with a line of fog dividing the cliffs in the background in half vertically, and pristine water at the base. As this happened, Jimmy Eat World's "Chase This Light ...

... we cruised along. Steep mountains with snow-covered peaks plunged dramatically down to the water on either side of us, and dozens of waterfalls plunged hundreds of metres down to the ocean below from their sides. The fishing villages along the sides completed the image, and we alternated between pointing out gorgeous mountains and waterfalls to each other and running from one side of the boat to the other taking photos. We eventually ended our ferry ...

... minutes. This wasn't such a bad idea because it soon started raining and the wind was intently trying to blow back down the fjord. We stopped over for a bit of a coffee and lunch in Flåm before heading back to our campsite for a 2 hour nap. After waking up we decided to head off towards Aurland to do the pass between Aurland and ...