By Road and Sea to Geiranger

A long day trip today with Geiranger as my destination. The tour was self-guided using public buses and ferries, but had one ticket which took you on the whole journey. It was easy to get around following the instructions about which bus to get on, and it felt more like being on a coach tour as the buses had a toilet on board. At Hellesylt I waited in the rain for the car ferry to Geiranger. The trip up the fjord was a little disappointing scenically due to the cloudy and drizzly weather, but it was tranquil with wispy waterfalls cascading down the sides of the fjord. The little town of Geiranger was rather over run with tourists, and there was loud music playing from a cruise ship anchored in the harbour. I passed on the tourist shops all selling the same thing (woolly socks, postcards, woolly hats) and walked behind the town past a camp site to a beautiful waterfall cascading down the rock side with an inviting wooden stairway leading up its edge. This is my kind of place. The climb gave lovely views back to the fjord the higher I went, and at the top sat the Union Hotel, which seemed like a nice place to stay if you had a room with a view. Back in the town I treated myself to an expensive ice cream and caught the next bus for my journey back to Alesund which took a road high above the fjord where the driver stopped briefly for us to get out at a viewing point for photos of Geirangerfjord. After a ferry crossing, and change of bus, I was back in Alesund, 10 hours after I left.Læs mere