Archive for 'Norway'
jacob’s apartments, bergen, norway
Jacob’s Apartments, Bergen, Norway. Our family room was a comfortable but no nonsense hotel room with tiny bathroom and four bunk beds. The best feature
Posted: July 4th, 2007 under Norway, Hotel, Bergen.
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brrr! it’s cold in here!
I threw caution to the wind and stripped to my speedos.
Posted: July 3rd, 2007 under Norway, Bergen, Geiranger.
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from trollstigen to geiranger fjord
Gerainger Fjord. One of the three most beautiful fjords in Norway, it’s a narrow strip of deep blue water with craggy mountain
Posted: July 3rd, 2007 under Norway, Geiranger, Trollstigen.
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trollstigen (the troll’s ladder)
the incredible road to Trollstigen. Known as the “Troll’s Ladder”, this road twists up 11 consecutive hairpin bends
Posted: July 3rd, 2007 under Norway, Dombas, Geiranger, Trollstigen.
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our hut at gerainger, end of geraingerfjord, norway
Day 7: It was almost too good to be true that we were able to rock into Gerainger (the little town at the end of the spectacular Gerainger Fjord) late on a Saturday afternoon and find ourselves a small hut looking back into town. We were worried that arriving after lunch on a Saturday we […]
Posted: July 3rd, 2007 under Norway, Camping, Hut, Geiranger.
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our hut just south of dombas
Day 6: After a long day of hiking we drove down the road to Dombas where we stayed in a basic hut in a campground just south of Dombas. Unfortunately we must have been so tired that we didn’t even note down its name, and the basic receipt we got also shed no light on […]
Posted: July 2nd, 2007 under Norway, Camping, Hut, Dombas.
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hiking in norway: from trollheimshytta to gjevilvashytta
Day 6: We made it! Back to civilisation after a long day hiking through the Norwegian wilderness. To get there we had to climb mountains, trek through miles of snow, overcome passing gumboot wearing Swedes who giggled at our less than impressive footwear, cross a dangerous snow bridge and make it 22km back to the […]
Posted: July 2nd, 2007 under Norway, Bergen, Camping, Hut.
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hiking in norway: vassendsetra to trollheimshytta
Day 5: If the first day of the hike wasn’t so bad, we still had the second and the third to go. Today was six hours and then the homeward journey tomorow is eight hours, including a 2km section first up which will take us from 550m up to 1300m.
A highlight from today was coming […]
Posted: July 1st, 2007 under Norway, Camping, Hut, Photos.
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