Tuesday cycled 79 miles yesterday, and 67 today

So Monday was Steinkjer to Namsos, I had trouble getting out of the town- you cannot cycle on the main road at this point and my mio took me a very hilly route out. A hot day...this time I was resting in a bus shelter(eating an orange) rather than hiding from the rain. When an elderly gentleman from the house opposite came and asked me to visit, and I was fed cold drinks. His son had worked in the oil industry, and the twin grandsons where very keen on football.
I reached Namsos by 4pm. After checking out the supermarket, I just carried on cycling. Over a big hill rather than through the 'no bikes' tunnel.
Then this animal ran out of the road in front of me...enormous! Much bigger than a red deer stag.

Up through forest I saw more sheep with bells on.

Eventually cameback down to the coast at a place on the 769 called Salen Tiered.

Today is raining but quite refreshing. Have been in 2 ferries across fjords, and passed a few touring cyclists. including one lady from North Cape on her way South. If she is home before I arrive I thus have somewhere to stay.
Just eated a large omelette for tea; a welcome change from pasta.
Staying in a proper campsite at Vennesund. My route North for the following few days follows road number 15.
Oh yes, a fox has been trying to get into my tent. He got shouted at but seemed brazen!

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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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