Tuesday 26thJune

Yesterday was a long day, so not pushing myself today. A relaxed cycle to Solholmen and ferry back onto mainland. Sitting at a picnic table looking at her maps was Tilly, I thought I would catch up with her at some point.

Tilly is Swiss and has cycled from home, staying with the same Warmshowers host as me in Bergen. Unfortunately she was going in to Molded and then on to stay with a friend of a friend for the night. She has also being doing a slightly different route. I am following Euro route 1 along the coast, which island hops at times. She has taken an inland route at points (including the E39 which I am keen to avoid where possible). Whilst we were talking, an Australian cyclist passed going the other way. He is heading to Portugal and began, I think, at North Cape, but jumped a large section due to bad weather.
No where quick today have been following my official route around the coast. Am now at Bude headland point. Tomorrow roads connect a couple of islands leading me to Kristiansund. Am staying in an expensive campsite, but it has a kitchen, TV room, which I might leave as the football is on, good wifi and a laundry. So I must mw go and rescue my washing from the machine.

I have been hearing lots of cuckoos this last day or two.

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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!

Monday 9th July 63 miles to just before Svolvaer

Mist to begin with. Aimed for Leknes which was on my route, I thought it would be a small fishing town-wrong... it was a town made up of shopping malls! In retrospect I can understand this; it will be dark in the winter, so not having to leave a heated complex makes sense. Sat out the mist and had a coffee. Then it was the quiet Eastern route around the island of Vestvagoya passing other cyclists on route. I met one organised group with a leader who told me that I must detour to see Henningsvaer, an old fishing town on the point. So I did. A bit of a tourist trap, but old traditional buildings and still fishing going on. More racks of dried cod heads! A couple of tunnels today- including one which went under the sea between two islands which I was not keen on. Actually the scenery would have been the same if I had been cycling around Achiltibuie...

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