Sunday 22nd July. Approx 40 miles

I made my way back to stay with Tove. I got given a lift through the sea tunnel and as far as the silver shop, which I had passed on my cycle north. No need to cycle the same road twice! Then cycled via Oldderfiorden to the farm which Tove's husband runs. They have about 30 cows - dairy but there is an automatic milking system, so the cows decide when they are going to be milked. They also have some sheep. Plus go fishing, I had the most amazing king crab for tea.
The families true love, however, is Liverpool football team, and they are avid supporters. They play a lot themselves as well. There is a reason for this. Until the early 1990's there was only one T. V. Channel and like in the UK the Saturday fixture was match of the day, so most people in Norway support an English team. In this case Liverpool, they have been to see them play several times.
A special thank you to this family for looking after me.

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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.

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