Winding Roads

Trip Start Sep 15, 2006
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Trip End Dec 2007


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Monday, September 25, 2006

Today we decided to explore some of Western Norway with our trusty Volkswagen Golf. The city centre in Stavanger is not that large. It seems like every time we look at the map we think that we have gone from A to C but we are have actually gone from A to I.

This morning I got the maps out and chose a route for us to take. For some reason I thought the drive was going to be 350 km round trip...but then again maybe that was another map that I looked at!

So far driving in Norway hasn't been that difficult. The roads are well marked, there are very few traffic lights (just mini-roundabouts), and the drivers are all relatively calm. When we looked at the maps, we wondered how it could take nine hours to get to Oslo.

Today we discovered just why it takes so long to get places in Norway Fjord
Fjord
 . The road we drove on was similar to a secondary highway. It was extremely narrow at times - in fact I think the road was sometimes more narrow than the shoulders are in Canada. There were many curves and hairpin bends around the sides of the mountains. It was definitely an adventure and I was glad to be a passenger and that it was during the day!

We ended up stopping in Lyseboten, a city at the end of one of the longest fjords in the area. It took us a long time to get there (2.5 hours) and it was raining lightly so we didn't get to do much exploring. We did however, get to see some amazing views of the fjord (photo album) and got to see some of the different landscapes in Norway. On our way to Lyseboten, we drove through Sirdal which is a very popular place for the Norwegians to have their cabins (hytte).

It was definitely worth the drive and we will plan to go back again when we can spend some more time there.
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