Havikstrand
Travel Blogs from Farsund
Day 3
... Parks and garden beds on lawns, even the rails on the bridge, were full of them, as were window boxes on many homes. Neat and clean and tidy, real picture postcard stuff.
The walk took us to the bathing beaches, to the pretty yacht harbour, to the Fishermen`s quay. We made our way to the Christiansholm Fortress, built by Frederik III in 1660. Fifteen feet thick walls of this impressive, ...
Catch up!
... and strawberries. Lingdal is famous for their strawberries rightly so. It does not get dark here till almost 11 and then is light before 6 so days seem to run together.
Yesterday we all left early and headed for Fort Nordberg, Harold and Kari played tour director. We drove all around the fjords on one and a half lane roads with hairpin curves. I did not have fun all day! We ate dinner in Flekkefjord ...
Family get together
... desserts. Went to cemetery, visited my grandparents grave and great grandparents graves, and my fathers sisters also. Beautiful old church and cemetery. We ate and stayed at Ingeborg's house. It was built in 1829, small but held all the family. The youngest baby Mia was fascinated by Paul's beard. Today we head for Lista and Fort Nordberg, a german fort built during the german occupation.
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The wedding!
The wedding was beautiful, Camilla was so preety and Erlends so handsome. The ceremony was over in 45 minutes, the dinner did not start till 5 so we all went to the farm to wait. It was very emotional being there where my father lived. We all headed into Farsund to the dinner, where we ate and ate and ate! The meat was reindeer, neither Donner or Blitzen! Lots of speeches which was over our heads. No ...
Second day!
Was too tired last night to do anything but crash! Spent the whole day on the coast with winds probably in the 40 mph!
Harold spent the day with us, taking us all around while the rest of the family decorated where the wedding dinner was to be. Harold said he got the better deal!
Caught up with the rest of them during the day but didn't stay, they were very busy. Went down to
Lista, went up in the lighthouse, ...
