Kviknes Hotel Balestrand
Kviknevegen 8, Postboks 24 Balestrand, Sogn og Fjordane, Western Fjords, N-6898, Norway
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Visiting a Medieval Viking Church
We viewed the stop in Balestrand as a relaxing stop and for the most part it was. We did hop an early ferry and go to the small town of Vik on the other side of the Sognefjord to visit their Stave Church, or Viking-eara church. It is one of several that remain, but one of the few that hasn't burned down and been rebuilt. This one really dates from …
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Fritz slept here
The 50 km drive along Sognefjellet Road, "one of Norway's most beautiful drives" brought us through the mountains down to the head of Lustrafjord.
It had been our intention to drive along the western shore of the fjord to Solvorn and from there take the short ferry ride across to Urnes. As luck would have it, we made a wrong turn and instead drove along the mostly single track road on the eastern side of the fjord. With few other vehicles about and ...
Norway in a Nutshell!
... was the car for pets and apparently when there are no pets, we got the only three seats in the car. Very nice and quiet!
From Myrdal we transferred to a small train for the trip down to the fjord level at a town called Flam. From Flam we caught a high speed ferry to our destination on the Sognefjorde of Balestrand.
The rest of the Nutshell route is consists of finishing the fjord loop by going down the most scenic part called the Naerofjord ...
A fjord in the road...
Thur 23/6 – Fjord hopping (Hellesylt to Balestrand)
Up at 6am. ooh. Hauled myself and the luggage downstairs and went for breakfast at 06h25. No way I'm leaving without porking out on some more salmon and yoghurt! Walked down to the bus stop at 06h55 and caught the 07h25 bus to Stryn. Here, I had to change buses (10 min wait) to Forde. Then another change of bus towards Balestrand. At another point, this final bus stopped and we had to switch again! So four buses ...
Stormy wheather
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