So, if you didn’t get the hint in my last post I can now reveal that we’re off to Norway this summer! It’s only going to be a 10 day trip, so much shorter than the last 3 adventures but as we’ll still be travelling around, by public transport, I think it counts as an adventure! The flights and most of the accommodation are booked so it’s just trains and ferries left to book but it’s too early to book the trains at the moment.
The map page shows our broad itinerary; essentially it’s a circular route starting in Oslo for some sight seeing before we head west to Flam on the train to see some fjords. In Flam, the plan is to do a bit of walking and take a scenic ferry trip (or two) along the Aurlandsfjord and Sognefjord before we take a fast ferry to Bergen where we’ll spend a day sightseeing. From Bergen another express ferry will take us south to Stavanger, and from there we can head to Pulpit Rock (pictured above). I’m really keen to walk up there but I’m also already pretty scared about this as my fear of heights and edges (aka death cliffs) seems to be getting worse with age so it’s really going to test my nerve! From Stavanger, we’ll be taking the train back to Oslo and then heading home! I think some of this last leg might be quite scenic too as the railway runs along the south coast so that should be good.
As we’ll be using public transport I’m thinking of taking my rucksack on this trip as we’ll need to walk between railway stations, ferries and accommodation and store our luggage on trains and ferries so a rucksack has to be better then a suitcase and although I don’t know what Mr. J will think about this, I have a feeling that I could guess and he won’t like it! We both took rucksacks when we went inter railing in 2005 (gosh, that was a looong time ago!) but I suspect that Mr. J won’t think that rucksacks are befitting of people our age!
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