Skip to main content

Friday 6th July

Thursday 5th 71 miles  to the north side of Sorfiordan

Friday 6th.   64 miles to Omes


Two great days cycling with beautiful views, lots of hills, tunnels and ferries to cross the fjords. Am following route 15 still. 



So the ferries are very similar to Scotland's Calmac ferries. They now have extra hands- a lot of students seem to be working on them for the summer. You can tell them by their crisp clean high viz uniform- no oil stains yet. They are also conscientious about collecting the fare - the old hands often just chat to me and then wave me on. I pay about £2.20 for the ride, as Tilly told me I must I get my Senior Discount. Just speaking to a couple this evening with a small van, they pay appropriately £40 per ferry. It pays to cycle!

The tunnels! I will never like tunnels and today I had to go through one which was over 2.5 km. long, but they are well lit and have a good tarmac surface.





Yesterday a very high climb up over a mountain. Today a lot of that gradient taken away, so getting reasonably fond of them. 

The cows, clean looking small herds. The milk tanker often passes me. Yesterday I passed a big milk plant. The yogurt is good.

Tonight have just had freshly caught cod for tea given to me by a fellow camper. 

Passing lots of cyclists now. This is a popular area for Norwegians and Swedish folk to come for their holidays.


Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

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...
Post a Comment
Read more

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!
Post a Comment
Read more

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...
Post a Comment
Read more