Second hike on Osterøy

The route was quite similar to the one I took the day before, only this time I wanted to see what was there if you took a different turn and to find out what that little house which I’d seen from the window.
I made use of the GPS receiver in my mobile and tracked the whole route for the first time.












View Osterøy in a larger map

Hike up a mountain

Bergen

Today L. took me to Bergen where I took some photos. I had an opportunity to see more of the Norwegian beautiful landscape. I hope I’ll be able to take some more (and nicer) pictures when I go to the city on Monday.

Bergen panorama

I never thought I’d say this but: thank God for English! When I was in a few shops today, sales assistants asked me if they could help me but since they said it in Norwegian, I didn’t know what they wanted from me. Luckily, as soon as I said ‘sorry I don’t understand’, they switched to English. I know I couldn’t live in a place whose language I had no command of and knowing what it feels like when you’re spoken to and you don’t understand a word is a good motivation to sit down and start learning this crazy tongue.

Valestrandfossen

 

Apparently that’s the name of the place where I’m staying. It’s a charming village by the Sørfjord fjord.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yeh, this part of Norway looks almost exactly as I imagined.

Norway

Holy shit! I’m flying to Norway right now!

I left home at 9am this morning, travelled by coach to Gdańsk, almost froze there, took a bus to get to the airport and spent a few hours there. No, the plane wasn’t late; it was me who, for the first time in a very long time, was well before the departure.

There’s fewer than 20 passengers on the plane whose capacity is 180 – this has never happened to me.

So, I’ll be in Norway in less than two hours. Funny, ‘cause it was never a county I wanted to visit in winter. I just hope everything goes well there for me.