Kristiansund

As we ported in Kristiansund, the heavens opened. We managed to swim a km before the rain but we breakfasted on the back deck watching quite heavy rain. A lazy breakfast, we retreated to the cabin to read and watch the Lionesses play Spain in the hopes the rain would clear. Also, little is open on Norway on a Sunday, so there wasn't lots to see. The afternoon could not have been more different - not only did the rain clear, but the sun came out and made the air humid and sticky! We walked up the harbour front and stopped at the Nordmore open air museum which showed shipbuilding and development through the ages before head west into one of the parks, climbing a beautiful tower for city views, before carrying on back to the ship. Leaving Kristiansund, a town of four distinct islands, meant reversing in the centre of the four, and the leaving by the only area not connected by a bridge. We watch the scenery pass by over dinner, before returning to our books en route to Andalsnes.Read more