I have a couple of posts that I have just started drafting, but never posted. So, for a few Thursdays I will now take the opportunity to take you back to the past. Some are not very old, and others are from a few years ago. I hope you enjoy this little time travel with… Continue reading Egersund
Category: Travel
Road trip 18: Troldhaugen
As all good things have to come to and end, sadly so did our road trip. On our way home from Bergen we stopped at the home of the famous Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg, Troldhaugen. I have gotten the information below from the museums site linked above. Edvard Hagerup Grieg (b. 15 June 1843, d. 4… Continue reading Road trip 18: Troldhaugen
Road trip 17: Beffen
After having visited the Aquarium and had a little bit of lunch, we took a small passenger ferry called Beffen. It is a hop on hop off concept, but we just wanted to take the whole ride around and enjoy a bit of the fresh sea air and enjoy the sunny weather. Beffen is an… Continue reading Road trip 17: Beffen
Road trip: Akvariet i Bergen
When we woke up in Bergen on the Friday the weather was really lovely. I had a few little things planned for the day and first of was a lovely stroll from our hotel down to the Aquarium. This is a place that I was a few times when I was younger, but over the… Continue reading Road trip: Akvariet i Bergen
Road trip 15: Bergen
After having been on the road for some time, we were going to spend three days in the same destination. This was in Bergen, where I used to live when I was a student and Noways second largest city. Our main goal for the stay, a part from enjoying ourselves was to spend some time… Continue reading Road trip 15: Bergen
Road trip 14: Voss
When we left Tyssedal in the morning, the weather was a bit overcast, so e got in the car again and drove some more around Hardanger, and crossed the fjord using a bridge I had not used before, that took us into a relatively new tunnel that took us towards Bergen. On our way there… Continue reading Road trip 14: Voss
Road trip 13: Tyssedal
In the lovely area of Hardanger we had a room booked for the night at the small industrial village of Tyssedal. From the 19th century, Tyssedal has been a tourist destination, also know outside of Norway. European nobility traveled to Tyssedal from early 1800, and even Keizer Wilhelm visited several times. In Tyssedal you can… Continue reading Road trip 13: Tyssedal
Road trip 12: Hardanger
After having driven over Hardangervidda and visited Vøringsfossen, we hit the fjord and the area called Hardanger. The area here is beautiful, very Norwegian with the fjords and mountains. Just like a lot of the fjord areas building roads has not been the easiest, so the national tourist roads here is a tourist attraction in… Continue reading Road trip 12: Hardanger
Road trip 11: Vøringsfossen
On our way over Hardangervidda, our main stop was by a Waterfall called Vøringsfossen. The name is derived from the old norse verb vyrða, that means esteem/revere, and fossen that means waterfall. It has a total drop of 182 metres (597 ft), and a major drop of 163 metres (535 ft). It is perhaps the most famous in the… Continue reading Road trip 11: Vøringsfossen
Road trip 10: Hardangervidda
After breakfast in Geilo, it was time to get back in to the car for a new long day of driving and so many new sights. Our first destination was the mountain plateau Hardangervidda. It is Europe’s largest mountain plateau and the largest national park in the Nordic countries. Hardangervidda covers an area of about… Continue reading Road trip 10: Hardangervidda
