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  • Day 59

    Bronnoysund

    June 5, 2023 in Norway ⋅ ☁️ 7 °C

    A dry day at last!! Well , it did involve a few squalls, but I'm going to call that dry for Norway! An interesting overnight at "Graceland " with Grace herself ( check out Grace Eboue on Spotify..) with a quiet gettaway ( Grace didnt promise to be up to see me off as, as an artist, she has to follow her muse and can't always be available. I presume, then, she was up all night penning her opus.) Impressive scenery through tight fjords, where it looked like the glacier had just squeezed through last week. No cafe as per the map, but met Ole and partner bike tourers from yesterdays ferry, who offered me some porridge and fresh coffee from their Road side campsite. Then the only real hill of the day 100 m or so up the side of the impressive looking ( in the guidebooks) Heilhornet. A few scary tunnels then lunch on the ferry which included the obligatory waffle/ brown cheese/ jam and cream: the Norwegian equivalent of the Calmac full Scottish. The route got increasingly flatter and the weather increasingly accomodating so good time was made to the sprawling mess of Bronnoysund and another night in an anonymous cheap hotelRead more