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Tuesday, august 12'th
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When you have used SAS to San Francisco and Las
Vegas, you get enogh bonus-points for a free trip within Scandinavia. I thought
I better had to use this opportunity before SAS got broke - and in this way the
idea of a late summervacation to the western part of Norway was born. And here I am in Bergen - after a
flight from Billund to Copenhagen and another one to Bergen. I have
checked-in at the cozy Crowded House (no bath, no tv) and has spent the day
looking around Bergen. Bergen is a little more "alternative"
than I thought. It's a nice place to walk around - not many cars around -
because you have to pay a toll to get your car downtown. I like that.
Weather is really nice - no rain at all - I thought it was raining all the
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| I take a look at Bryggen down at
the harbour. Some old houses made of wood before the leveller was
invented. At least all the houses, stairs and doors are all oblique. But I
guess thats part of the charm.
I end the day in the hyper-trendy cafe at
Crowded House. A little to trende to my taste, so I just order a cup of
coffee before turning in |
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Wednesday, august 13.th
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Express-boat from Bergen at 8 am. Nice trip - change og
boat along the rout - before I lnad in Florø
just before noon. I find my Bed and Breakfast Stranda
B&B - pretty spartaneuos (no bath, no tv - but an electric kettle).
But it's a cozy place, but you have to remember to put your shoes in the
hallway.
Then it's time for taking a look at what
has been named the cozy'est city in Norway. About 8000 souls live here, so
it's such a big place. A long walk to the Coastal-museum
of Sogn and Fjordana. A lot of old stuff from the city and the fiords, and
a small museum telling about the oil-rig Snorre. The museum is here
because Florø is the service-harbour for more oil-rigs. |
| Later a walk along Storåsen -
with a lovely view of Flory, the bay and the small islands around.
I end the day at Florø Stadium - Florø against Førde in 3'rd division part 11. 3-2
victory to Førde in front of a crowd of 400-500 people that are very
quiet during the match. |
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Thursday, august 14'th
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"You must be from Denmark
going to Kinn in this kind of weather"; that was what the captain
told me when I boarded the small boat from Florø. "It's not that
bad" - I replied - and he replied back "It's hell......."
And of course it was a little windy - and
the clouds didn't exactly look nice - and I was the only one visiting the
island of Kinn today, but for a happy traveller you always should be ready
for a new adventure. Kinn is a small island, ½ an
hour sailing by motorboat from Florø - one of the outermost islands
around her - so the wind is really strong out there.
Very few people live on the island, and a
few more sheeps. And then there is a church that is 1000 years old, where
they actually run a guided tour for the tourists (thats me!) between 11
and 12 am. It's the churchwarden that show me around, and ends the tour by
playing the old Procol Harum hit "A whiter shade of pale" on the
church-organ. After the tour there are coffee and waffles for the
participants of the tour - that's still only me!!
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| After this I start to walk
around the island. Now it's very windy, but still dry. The is a huge hill
called Kinnaklova, that looks like an axa has cut right through the middle
of if.
To get to the other side of the island you
have to cross a small hill between two big hills. Here you can talk about
a tail wind. The hills around will pressure the wind forward in a
wind-tunnel, so you almost pass this place flying. And suddenly the wind
dies, because the hills is covering. The whole trip around the island
takes about 1½ hour on a path that sometimes is there - sometimes isn't.
I don't like paths that suddenly disappear, and you can start feeling
something wet under your feet. That's a bad sign.
Back for the boat at 3.15 - and back in Florø at
4 pm. Now it's both windy and rainy, so it's just time for a pizza before I head
out to Stranda together with a newspaper and a great Gunnar Staalesen book.
To Aalesund
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