Minotel Bjorns Lillehammer

Astrid og Bjorn Bredesen, Vignes Lillehammer, Oppland, Eastern Valleys, 2608, Norway

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Kindness and hospitality without measure

A travel blog entry by felixandfloss

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... kindness really is, she gave me some needles for stitching in the extra thread on my knitting and some safety pins in case they could be useful. She has given me some velcro to attach a piece of polar fleece to my helmet in winter, like many riders do for winter up here. When we came back from a walk the other day a bunch of flowers we sitting in a vase by our bed, some examples of the wild flowers she had been showing and telling us about. The other morning she brought us ...

Felix's birthday & getting it back together

A travel blog entry by felixandfloss

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... and cylinder can’t be compressed together, which means a loss of compression, which means over-heating and loss of power blah blah blah same problem over and over.

So we were back to square one in my mind, but to Felix this is only a setback in time, as everything else is good to go as far as we know. But we were still back to ordering parts from all over the world which takes over a week because of customs and tax. Norway has no stock of ...

Wanting out

A travel blog entry by felixandfloss

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... in the right direction. The lady had no idea but was extremely helpful, printing off two maps of where we were going. So we were lead down the old dirt road, now a horse riding path for what seemed like forever, going deeper and deeper into the forest. My spirits were rapidly spiralling lower and lower. I was so unhappy, I could not see one reason why I should be in Europe, what is the point of spending two years worth of savings on a trip that seems - when clouded ...

A lesson in kindness

A travel blog entry by felixandfloss

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... again and when we started up Nina again the ***** was making a tapping noise in the head. Not one kilometre down the road and she was screwing up again. We rode on, this noise has happened before and then stopped again. It didn’t stop however and not much later (twenty kilometres or so) we pulled into the forest just out of a town called Dokka - Nina had lost all power and there was no compression in the left cylinder, evidently the inlet valve was seized or bent. ...

Still Loving Lillehammer...

A travel blog entry by erfarenorge

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... my first hockey game, Lillehammer vs. Trondheim (and Lillehammer won!) :) I went tobogganing down a huge & windey hill. I spent a weekend in the beautiful mountains at Fagerhøi. I went to one of the most famous winter attractions in all of Europe, and I went bobsledding. It has been so much fun! At Fagerhøi, a very beautiful area above the clouds with rolling hills, small cabins, and a lot of snow, the ...