Going Northwards - Norway (From Denmark to Norway and back)

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Visited cities:
Helsingor, Bastad, Tanum, Vestby, Oslo, Gol, Bergen, Nesttum, Halhiem, Sandvikvag, Valevag, Stavanger, Mandal, Kristiansand, Hanstholm, Hobro

? Wednesday 07.08.85
Helsingor reach and close to the castle consume breakfast. We visit the castle and take the ferry to Helsingborg (Sweden) 15 minutes time.
Visit Bastad, with lawns to the sea, I try to put shells on the beach. We shop in Gothenburg and cross highway. A stop to visit Tanum graffiti on a hill and the museum.
A cross Svinesund a beautiful fjord and it is in Norway.
Vestby on to finally find a hotel on the edge of the reservation for 2 nights (all night + breakfast 495 NK = 112000) dinner in a restaurant near the forest where there are also many mushrooms.

? Thursday, 08.08.85
Visit to Oslo:
- The Vikingskpene, home of the Viking ships and their culture
- The Folkemuseum, indoor museum houses furniture, clothes and ceramics. Outdoor houses typical of the Norwegian culture.
- The Church of Gol. Fram: vessel used for the achievements of the poles, before the North Pole in 1893 and then the 1910 Amundsen South Pole.
- Kon Tiki: boat of balsa wood used in 1947 to cross the Pacific from Peru to Polynesia.
- Frogherer Parken, beautiful park of meadows and lakes and sculptural groups in bronze and granite by sculptor Vigeland, the cycle of life. With the expense and change in Norwegian kroner Swedish.

Return to Vestby, where dinner again in the woods.

? Friday 09.08.85
Starters for the Scandinavian Alps, through Oslo. The road climbs slowly through the woods and lakes.
Stop in Gol, around the town where there are internal squares with shops and benches. Area churches with typical Norwegian Wood (Torp). It continues to rise and the landscape becomes one of the mountains, we are almost no trees in the tundra. The glacier appears dell'Hardanger. It then travels at high altitude with minor undulations: boundless landscapes and lakes. Meet huts and buy Sami reindeer skins. Collect flowers made ciuffetti style cotton.
After you go down this landscape dramatically: beautiful stone dam and beautiful waterfalls, cliffs and lakes. Appear first fjords. We pay the toll for crossing the fjord Eidfjord and then the road is good all along the fjord. Let another beautiful bridge and then you continue along the bottom of a river continually interrupted by lakes and waterfalls.
A Bergen again we find difficulty in sleeping, try hotel, motel or room but now dormoni. Then find a distributor and ask for information and found Nestum hotel. We were accompanied by the manager of the distributor: room without bath and without breakfast NK 580 = 130,000. Practically there are no tourists and are not equipped with hotels.

? Saturday 10.08.85
Nesttum departure from the south. For Halhjem, we take the first ferry. Beautiful houses on the fjord and islands scattered. Boarding a guy was selling cans of wooden herring in salt, I had a cart full. This crossing was very beautiful Halhjem a Sandvikvag: an hour between the islands and fjords (Bjornafjord). Crossed the rocky island of Leirvik, new boarding Valevag: path of 30 minutes. Incrocamo different fjords and the island of Sveio, rocky and almost deserted. Then a new boarding Skudeneshavn. Waiting for the ferry take a tour on the rocks and collect flowers lilac such as those that once had in pots on the balcony in the old house. We continue sailing to Stavanger in the rain for 1 hour and 15 minutes, the fjords are now more open and less beautiful. Now continue south towards the inside, we have indeed left the sea. Walk down a street between the beautiful rocks, waterfalls, lakes and fjords and dense forests all times under the rain. We sleep in Mandal, breakfast 600 NK = 135,000 lire. It 'the only place that we find and we have rooms stink in the attic of an old noble residence. Now find where to sleep has become a serious problem.

? Sunday 11.08.85
In the morning we arrive at Kristiansand.
We embark for Denmark at 11.30: path to 4 hours 872 NK = 200,000 lire. The crossing is under the sun, the first leg is in the fjord and then you go to open sea. The sea is great and all, but all are sick. Waves across the bow from the stern to the ship and my sister and I (the only addition to the crew not being sick) run up and down the ship for fun.
Landing Hanst and lunch on the beach and stand in the afternoon. There are sand dunes as far as the eye, to the point that it is risky to lose. The sand hills are covered with blueberries blacks and reds and lilac flowers.
Let's make a journey along an internal branch of the sea, visit the stele of Borremose. Then we find a motel in Hobro, dinner and room remade suitcases. (night and breakfast DK 600 = 110,000 pounds)