Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Back to Norway

We where in Norway over Easter and I have never seen so much snow in my life before. The trip trough Sweden went well, it was spring and the roads where dry. When we approached the Norwegian border it started snowing. When we passed the Norwegian border you could see about 3 meters in front of you.

There was a snow plough going back and fort the two-three miles between the border and the first village(named Umbukta) in Norway and it must have taken us a half hour to cover that distance. It could barely keep up the road. We reached Umbukta and the snow plough that had gone between Umbukta and Mo I Rana had broken down. It took 24 hours to get it fixed. So there we where stuck in a fell cabin in Umbukta going nowhere and no GSM coverage. A funny thing is that there where plenty of Norwegians celebrating Easter there. They where playing in the snow like this was normal. You could count the snow dept above 1 meter (apparently there was no snow there a few days earlier). The snow drifts where covering some of the windows completely. When the snow plough got the road cleared late next day all you could of the Norwegian landscape where snow walls on both sides of the road.

Well as the weather cleared and we headed north the weather got better and there where almost no snow in some places. One of the things we tried was Hurtigrutten between Bodo and Lofoten (Stammsund). It’s a cruise ship that goes between 35 harbors in Norway in 11 days, every day (they got 11 ships). There we where coming out of the snow with American and German tourists (and a few locals). Twice as expensive (still only half the price of the ferry between Umeå and Vaasa) as the normal ferries but we had a time schedule.

We where buying a puppy in Lofoten and it’s really cute =).

The last day in Norway it was sunny and no wind and yes it’ really beautiful in the winter too.

I got some really cheap winter shoes (made for winters up there) in Gore-Tex, its spring and they need to clear out the “winter-stuff”.


Bought some “junk” at Ikea. Well the car was full already and we didn’t have much money left.


I don’t we will drive trough Norway anytime soon again but Hurtigrutten could be fun =)

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