Wednesday 4th July. 53 miles

Continuing on Route 1 Cycle Way North, which is the same as road number 15, the tourist route North. Beautiful, but what a lot of German and Dutch camper vans there are! I check the nationality sticker as they go past: yesterday more Dutch, today more German. A few touring cyclists as well, including another solo female going the 0pposite direction to me.
2 ferries today.When I get off once the vehicle traffic has gone, I have the road to myself. Whilst waiting for the second ferry, I had to cycle some distance away as a controlled dynamite explosion blew up rock to extend the pier area.

I visited a couple of places today: First an old 19th century village-actually I think they had moved the buildings to a common site.
Secondly a war cemetery for the thousands of Russians killed in Norway between 1941 and 1945. War cemeteries are such poignant places,.

I also learnt why there are no seals..... they get SHOT in the name of hunting.

Staying at very nice campsite about 5 miles past the ferry at Tjotta

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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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