Sognefjord A.S. Hermansverk

... 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!

... breathtaking. Just imagine, from 0 m above sea level up to 867 m. And a surprise waited for us! A five-minute stop at the Kjosfoss waterfall where we could admire strenght of the flush and a dryad (well, three dryads :-)) dancing to the Celtic music.
On our way up we pulled for a group of cycling children who had to beat this vertical interval - a few of them pedalling bravely and many of ...

... 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 ...

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Har ikke vært mye utevær idag, men har stoppet og festet noen inntrykk til digitalt format (går jo ikke an å si 'til filmen' lenger ..). Kjørte or'ntli' opp på Gaularfjellet før jeg spiste frokost. Bedre å sitte der og ha trivelig utsikt i regnværet enn å se ut i skogen fra den knøttlille hytta. Og jo mindre jeg er og gjør der, jo ...

... Star Wars film location! Once we approached that area, the snow covered landscape to me was recongnizable from the film. Not dramatic mountains, but more like rolling hills covered in snow. It was a tick of my list anyway! Finse is also the highest train station in Norway at 1222m above sea level. Our stop was at Myrdal, where we chain trains to hop onto the Flam railway. The Flam Railway is one of the steepest non-cable railways in the world and passes some very dramatic ...

We woke up this morning to a beautiful sunny day in Bergen and scarfed down the buffet breakfast at the hotel (toast, cereal, cold meats and cheeses, and the strange Norwegian brown cheese, which tastes basically just like cheese-flavoured fudge, but is nice with jam on toast!). We had to hurry to make it to the harbour for our ferry, but got there 5 minutes before it was leaving and set off on our tour of the fjords. After some discussion yesterday, we ...

14-May:   ; ;   ; ;   ; ; Royal Fjord Tour Today we did the Royal Fjord Tour. Basically one takes a train from Bergen to Myrdal and then board another train for the down hill run to Flåm. As we approached Myrdal, we realized that it was snowing! Big, fat snowflakes. And, oh yes, it was cold. The train ride was amazing. It is very steep in places but you ...

... from Aurland to the top of Prest, and were told it would take about 4 hours or so... so thought since the days were so long we'd start our walk early afternoon. Drove through to Aurland which is 8 km from Flåm and parked our car at the foot of the mountain before heading off with our backpack of fruit, water and some sandwiches... oh ...