Norway
Ok, what can we offer to North Norway lights and beautiful sunsets over the fjords to? Oh yes, there were still endless trips to the fjords. Then suddenly climbs up to 13% and over again weissstrudelnde waterfalls. And not to forget every now and then a glacier. Unfortunately, the sleep-search in the South became more difficult. Many good homes are equipped camping-prohibited signs (because of everyman and you can camp anywhere easy ...)
Fjords - ... with rainbows.
Waterfall - Going Down.
Trondheim we visited for two reasons. First, we wanted to see the city and then had an Apple Store here, where we hoped for assistance on WiFi. Unfortunately without success. Fortunately, Martin was able to help us Hertach from Switzerland. He will bring us a new card to Copenhagen Airport. In Trondheim, we were lucky that the sun was shining and we went by on bicycles sightseeing tour. In bright sunshine and deep blue sky, the red wooden houses are simply better. The cathedral was unfortunately already closed, but was also very impressive from the outside.
Cathedral of Trondheim - Old houses.
We decided to leave the main route of the E6 and sailed along on a winding road in the direction of Galdhøppigen glacier. In Lom kamen wir dann an der ersten Stabkirche aus der Wikingerzeit vorbei. Die Sonne zeigte sich genügend lang für unsere Fotos. Die Fahrt war sehr eindrücklich und wir mussten etliche Fotostopps einlegen.
Stabkirche von Lom.
Auf dem Weg zum Galdhøppigen Gletscher.
Der Galdhøppigen Gletscher.
Den Besuche einer Gletscherzunge aus der Nähe wollten wir uns nach dieser eindrücklichen Fahrt entlang des Gletschers natürlich nicht entgehen lassen und so folgten wir dem Tip des Luxemburger Couple and went to Veitastrond. The ride there was already an adventure in itself. The road was very narrow and we were amazed when we suddenly came to meet campers, Aargau flag. And then there were quite a few completely unlit tunnel add up to 800 m in length. The drive through such a dark narrow hole was initially a bit uncomfortable and we believe now know why all the Norwegians extra strong lights mounted on their cars.
The light at the end of the tunnel ...
a 6km long trail then took us to a branch of the Austerdalsbreen Josterdaalsbreen, the largest glacier in Norway. Of course We did it take us and stayed with a view of the glacier.
When Austerdalsbreen.
overnight stay with glacier views.
The next day the visit of the Borgund Stavkyrkje (the best preserved stave church in Norway, in which any modifications during the Reformation were reversed) was announced. Stave churches take their name from their construction. It has built a framework of supporting logs and wall boards were then used. The roofs were covered with wood shingles and roofs mit Drachenköpfe verziert. Als Schutz gegen Verwitterung wurde die ganze Kirche mit Teer bestrichen und auf einen Steinsockel gebaut.
Stabkirche von Borgung.
Innenansicht - Dachverzierung.
Nach diesem Besuch ging's dann durch den wohl längsten Tunnel (nehmen wir zumindest an: 24.5km). Dieser war zum Glück beleuchtet und als Höhepunkt gab's drei verbreiterte Stellen, welche blau beleuchtet waren und wo man einen Rast mitten im Tunnel einlegen konnte. Was sich die Norweger nicht alles einfallen lassen. Zuerst Tunnels ganz ohne Licht und dann einen völlig futuristischen Tunnel...
Zu viel Licht im Tunnel?.
Dann war die regenreichste Stadt Europas angesagt: Bergen. Doch das Wetter war auf unserer Seite und als wir die Stadt erreichten drangen die ersten Sonnenstrahlen durch die Wolken. Wir spazierten durch den alten Stadtteil, der Brygge, entlang und während Meli im Aquarium Krokodile fütterte, besuchte Raphi das hanseatische Museum und wurde Zeuge wie das Hurtigruten Schiff mit grossem Tamtam und Kanonensalven in Bergen anlegte. Es Hurtigrutentag und das Schiff konnte gratis besichtigt werden. Anscheinend ein riesen Spektakel für die Einheimischen.
Brygge.
Hurtig ship in the middle of the mountains.
the next day after a rather disappointing visit to the fish market (which is probably more like a tourist fish market), we went further inland. We had decided to go as a direct way to Sweden to faster and cheaper to go to the south. In Norway, not only the gas was the most expensive, you had to constantly pay toll charges for road and then were added some ferries.
fish market in Bergen.
After visiting the Nature Center in Ejdfiord, Raphi but changed all the plans again. He did not miss simply take time to be watching from above in a fjord and climb the 405 m falling Prejkestolen. So we changed our direction back towards the south and Raphael made the next day alone on the two-hour hike on the rocks. Meli was due to rain in Büssli. The rain then stopped, fortunately not last long and so Raphael could enjoy the view of the fjord in overcast but dry skies.
view from Pulpit Rock - successful conqueror.
The rocky outcrop.
Now there was only one way to the Sweden and almost led by Oslo. We hoped so at least progress more quickly. But far from it. After a short while back there was a ferry and it was just as curvy and hilly as before. We were amazed not so bad when we clock in at six in the sleeper suddenly looking at 1000 m were ... The second last night in Norway was therefore something cool ....
night in the fog at 1000 m
Sweden In Sweden, we came suddenly forward again as expected ... The landscape was Now gently undulating and we drove through vast forests and agricultural areas to Mora, where the red Swedish wooden horses originate. On the way we saw our first moose in Sweden. He was just in a trailer that looks as though transported a glider loaded. It is now definitely announced elk hunting. As we go again drove past these trailers, we ask something that is a dead moose in every ...
Meli snuggles with a Dalarnapferdchen.
little south of Mora on Lake Siljan, we took a long walk through the Swedish single-family idyll. A red-coated Little house on the next ride, hung in every garden is a Sweden flag ...
The Lake Siljan - Swedish single-family idyll.
But something on the nature hike.
There was a visit to the mine in Falun on the next day far from exciting. We were early enough that we at the first guide in the corridors of the could take up to 67 m deep and mine was still alone. Here have been mined since ancient times, copper, silver, gold and other minerals. According to legend, the people on the mineral wealth by a goat, one evening with red hair came home, his attention has been drawn. The mine enabled Sweden to become that great power that it was in the Life of Gustav Vasa. At that time, 2 / 3 of copper in Europe came from the mine in Falun. We were very impressed and we had enjoyed this kind of leadership and show much better than that tourist spectacle in the salt mine in Poland. Incidentally, the red color in which all Swedish houses are painted, is made from a waste product from the extraction of copper.
The mine of Falun from above ... - And from within.
mine workers' settlement in the typical red
the evening when we were looking a bit longer a place to sleep, then came to a highlight. On a small side street was a car and we drove past as the flasher was operated. A man pointed to the right and we have seen in a meadow two live elk. Raphael tried to sneak the camera, but the animals are very shy, so what in the hunting season is not one.
Whoever finds the two elk.
in Nora (as we had to pass because God Melis child that's the name) we were on the old wooden houses that have to be especially beautiful and plentiful here, according to travel guides, somewhat disappointed, or we had simply seen too many beautiful wooden houses. But we were on the way to the lake Vänern an impressive stone runes ...
train station Nora - The rune stone.
Vänern, the largest lake in Sweden, we spent a day of fruitless fishing, and enjoyed things do not go one day be.
fish we come!
Next we visited Örebro and Uppsala. Both cities have dropped us on the size and design her very well. In Uppsala, we were impressed of course, the largest cathedral in northern Europe and it was very cool in the afternoon, we visited the Gustavianum, the University Museum. Here, in addition to exhibits from the collection of former Egyptian royal family and old equipment the university exhibited and it is the steepest in the lecture hall, visit the Anatomical Theatre. Here corpses demonstration and learning purposes were dissected. A fee could watch non-students.
Örebro Castle - The open-air museum.
The Uppsala Cathedral - The University.
The Castle of Uppsala.
Now we are in Stockholm and can in this time at Ketty, a former colleague of Meli residence. The Büssli we parked in a parking lot near the campground. From Stockholm, there are then more in the next blog.
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