Time to get email addresses from the cycle-campers we shared the campsite with on Tuesday night- a late start for us all after the rain of the night and morning ... then off the couple from Stuttgart go....
Then next to go is Jan (from Scotland - just in case you didn't get this from the photo!!) ...
Rainy Wednesday evening at Leirvik, and our hut for 350 Kr (about £37)
...Marrianne is in the hut next door to us ...
A view of Leirvik...
with an unusual 'sculpture' of steel with lots of small windmills...
The cycle path takes us around a road tunnel, with superb views over a fish farm...
I thought at first they were pumping oxygen into the fishpool - but no, it was fish leaping out of the water and glinting in the sunshine - amazing to watch.
Last ferry of the trip - half an hour to put our feet up and relax a little - nearly there....
By the time we were off the ferry both of us were suffering from legs that refused to cycle up hills - not quite sure why, but we both felt very pathetic!!!
Decided to find a hut or hotel after 26 miles - and this was the last room they had...
... and this was the view from the dining room where we had breakfast this morning.
The start of the clear out of our baggage before we fly home -no more camping now so Roger celebrates by chucking his Freegon and much mended stool out...
Not a very exciting or scenic route today - but most of the time easy to follow as we cycled on the cycle tack next to the main E39 into Bergen.
There is always another hill though - and a long gradual hill to negotiate about 8 miles out of Bergen - but a good view at the top to compensate us... Very mixed weather, but cooler today and drizzled from time to time on us..
... and finally we are actually here in Bergen ... packed out with people and traffic, and threatening to rain anytime soon ...
Glad to see you made it, you two + many congratulations on doing the whole route! I did Ok until I was stormbound for two days -cycling unthinkable in gale force winds and torrential rains. Fortunately got into a hotel in Flekkefjord just as it started then hopped around on buses to Farsund and then to Mandal (enjoyable place). Great cycle from then to Kristiansand - now full of beer (oh for a decent glass of wine..) and awaiting tomorrow mornings ferry to Denmark. Thanks to the storm I,m a day early. Norway is nice - in the last few days I have been given soup by a nice Danish couple, free sandwiches in Sognadalstrand by a very cheery Norwegian, and 2 free showers by the proprietress of Mandal campsite - must have looked as though I needed it! Glad Marianne got her tyre sorted..
ReplyDeleteMy email: nevachalet@btinternet.com. Very best to both - jan
PS very honoured to figure briefly on your blog!