Saturday 23rd June

See pictures on previous blog. Today it was drizzling but I enjoyed my 25 mile cycle to the first ferry crossing. I stopped at a small supermarket and bought supplies and had a coffee. Things were going well. Reached the ferry Dock and about 20 minutes later Michele and Patricia caught up with me and we waited for the ferry. Three hours with only a bus shelter!Did not realise they are still on the winter timetable. At the other end, in order to avoid a long diversion inland and back again, plus to avoid 2 infrequent ferry crossings, we took the passenger boat to Morley. Not as bad as it sounds- you can not cycle around every single outcrop.
The rain has stopped (or paused), the campsite is good and the views from the tent stunning. Look at pictures in last blog, we did not realise there was a no camping sign until the tents went up.
So today's milage 28 miles!

The map seems to show that I have a proper day's cycle before the next ferry crossing.
Shame I did not think to study French for this trip,

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Monday 25th.71miles

I returned to Ulsteinvik from my detour campsite. I went into the Remix supermarket, which looked remarkably like a Lidl, although being Norway, the prices are higher. Then it was the main road to the next ferry at Hareid. There was a shared route cycle path which was nice, but I got off it to give space to a group of nursery age children who were walking along holding hands in lines of 3 . Coming off the ferry, my road became busy. Alesund not far away is a surprisingly large place and I hit the dreaded E39 the main arterial road/duel carriageway going North. There are cycle paths and between mio and me we got through.( Though why mio took me off the cycle path, hrough an industrial estate only to return to the same road is questionable). My route then led me along quiet roads up a fiord side, round it and back down the other side. Then I cycled 3 sides of the square which made up a peninsula in order to avoid a large tunn...

Sunday 10th Jun

I seem to have a lot of gear to take with me. Plus a lot of cables and leads, for phone, camera, etc. I leave for Orkney on Wednesday with Keith then am booked onto the overnight ferry to Shetland on Saturday. Will cycle as far north in the U. K. as roads allow, then I take the Loganair flight to Bergen on Wed. 20th Am taking my warm but bulky Norwegian sleeping bag - if I can fit it somewhere!

Wednesday. 50 miles

Bude to Kristiansund. 50 miles Alongside the Atlantic coast, over bridges, round a fiord and through a tunnel. The tunnel was built in 2009 and is 1.5 kms long and very deep. So deep that I could feel my ears pop. It does not allow cycling, so you have to take the bus through. A Dutch couple I met who also went thru' the Tunnel by bus. A sunny day, passing fishing hamlets. A bit like the North Coast route around Scotland- camper vans and a surprisingly large number of sports cars. I am having problems finding the centres of towns, I just think there are no small shops in rural Norway. There are plenty of supermarkets on the outskirts of town. Also I have seen no seals, dolphins or the like. Just the one otter on the first day. Lots of seabirds through, and there are puffins on the outer islands.

Cycling North

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