Life's a Stitch

Two nights in Vinstra included a visit to Ringebou’s stave church and series of art galleries in former farm buildings.

Our trip to Lillehammer, home to the 1994 Winter Olympics, was thwarted due to closed roads from recent catastrophic flooding. 

The return trip to Alesund, on the Geiranger scenic highway, completed our circle tour. The first stop was in Grotli, home to another stave church.

Here we learned that every waterfall in Norway was named for Svein’s family 😉as his surname translates to waterfall. For the equivalent of $24 Cdn you could zip line over the small falls in a matter of seconds. I’ll pass. 

The other expensive item was a bit shocking. We’re used to carrying coins to use public restrooms. It generally assures they’ll be clean and stocked with appropriate paper products. In Grotli the washrooms cost the equivalent of $3 Cdn ($2.20 US). You’d think this might encourage unsanitary behaviour (in at least half the population).

We stopped by the campground of my dreams. Set next to the river, they built a pool in the rocks.

The clouds cleared in time for the drive up to the Geiranger Fjord viewpoint at the top of the mountain. Spectacular!

Driving down felt like being in the cockpit of a plane.

Geiranger, most photographed fjord in Norway.

We took the ferry back from whence we came, the town of the famous strawberry cake, and were a short 45 minutes from home.