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Friday, August 15'th
Transportationday - and all day rain. First the Fylkesbåd to Måløy.
Then bus to Maurstad, another bus
to Hareid and then boat
to Ålesund.
It would have been a nice trip, if it wasn't for the constant rain.
Check in at the cozy Brosundet Gjestehus. A stroll around Aalesund and dinner at
the local Krambua, where all meals are served in 3 sizes. Normal, un-normal and
abnorm.
| Saturday, August 16'th It's a 4 km walk to Atlanterhavsparken,
when you miss your bus at the busstop. But anyway its better than waiting
for the next one in an hour.
Atlanterhavsparken is a huge aquarium with
plenty of fish. You will find heering, cod, coalfish, plaice - yes in fact
all the fish you just normaly meet in the freezer at your local
supermarket. Some of them are being fed by a diver in the aquarium. And
some of them even have names. Mike Tyson for instance - once tried to bite
off the ear of one of the divers - and Big Mama is the oldest one in the
pool. She is blind on one eye and halfblind on the other. It takes her 5
minutes to swin around the aquarium she is in, and always in the same
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Later that day it's soccer-timer
at Kråmyra. The hometeam of Ålesund against the highly
respected team of Rosenborg. Ålesund plays with all men in the back and
they loose by 2-0 anyway. The stadium is kind of special. A large part of
the 8000 people crowd is placed on a natural part of the "fjell"
in a mixture of stone, mud, commercial-signs and strange plants.
The walk down from the stadium is through
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Sunday, August 17'th
"Til fots i Ålesund" (Walking Aalesun)
is a nice little booklet, that via 24 numbers lead you through the city of
Aalesund. The walk start with a nice uphill-walk (418 steps) to Aksla Fjellstua,
with a nice view over the city. When you are there you are pretty tired already.
Then you go for an ice-tea in the cafe - and they charge you 35 Nkr. This is
Norway!!!
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Then it's down the stairs again
to take a walk in the city. Major parts of the city is build in socalled
Jugend-style. That means a lot of houses with small towers and spires. The
reason for this is that there was a huge fire in 1904. So they had to
rebuild the whole city - and this time they for good reasons wouldn't use
timber. So instead they rebuild the city with stone in the Jugend Style
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