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  • Day 33

    Sweden to Norway

    August 8, 2019 in Norway ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C

    We have now realised that Scandinavian people are certainly a genitically blessed race-so many beautiful people!!!
    The standard car seems to be a Volvo, Audi, BMW, or Mercedes, and the modernTesla cars.
    Norway is known as the Swiss cheese country due to the number of roadway tunnels. The roadway infrastructure is phenomenal with its tunnels and well constructed roads and interchange systems.
    The discovery of oil and gas in the North Sea in the 1950s to 1960s, made possible a huge contribution to infrastructure development, and impact on this once poor country, thus allowing funds to develop roads, tunnels and other significant infrastructure.
    The long trip from Gothenburg to Oslo took us through prime rural country with splendid crops of wheat, barley and canola, and paddocks of freshly mown pasture and others of recently baled hay and silage. As we approached Oslo the country changed to hilly to mountainous, combined with beautiful valleys, also some areas were heavily treed and forested.
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