Today was a massive travel day, with the added inconvenience of the blocked tunnel adding a couple of hours extra driving time. We didn’t care because we saw some beautiful views.

Imagine having a house so close to the fjord?

Many of the houses don’t have fences around them. That would do my head in. How do they keep their kids and dogs from wandering?

This was the scene that greeted us at the first toilet stop of the day. I’m guessing no one who visits these loos has any trouble having a wee…

I was sitting in the second row, and this was the view through the windscreen.

The colours of houses in Norway are mandated by law. There are certain colours you are allowed to paint your house, and if you are a rebel and choose a different shade or totally different colour, you are made to repaint it, which is very costly.

It certainly adds to the charm of Norway, as the colours of the buildings look fabulous against the green of the countryside.

Imagine living with a waterfall in your backyard. And a mountain.

This kid was running around, causing mayhem with his battle-axe in the ferry gift shop. Viking blood still runs strong, it seems. I air dropped this to his Mum.

This was where we caught the ferry to cruise along the fjord for a couple of hours.

Zoom into the red building between the flagpoles. It’s across the river from where the ferry is. Then, zoom out again, looking at where that building actually is. There’s nothing else there. It’s incredible.

The next shots are taken from the deck of the ferry, in between me going inside periodically to warm my hands up. There was a brisk wind blowing, though we were lucky enough to escape the rain.

The thing I’m seeing here is how the Norwegians take every flat piece of land to live and farm. It’s a bit like North Korea, though they did it for famine reasons. Jan said, “In summer near the fjords, it’s very lush. But sometimes you wonder how they get to the farms. Often there seems to be just a house, not even a road.”

The ferry came within metres of the shore so people could take photos of the waterfall.

That water!

Taken from the back of the ferry.

Melodious, aren’t they? 😂

I just can’t get over the height of the cliffs and the angles that the ice has carved.

Yet another little village nestled beside a mountain.

This cruise was like going to Venice… it’s almost impossible to take a bad photo. Norway is so beautiful that the Norwegians must feel sorry for almost everyone else in the world when they see their countries.

This is the mid point in a 24 kilometre tunnel we drove through directly after leaving the ferry.

Another photo opportunity at a rest stop.
I couldn’t believe it when I heard a couple of women saying, “It’s all getting a bit same-same, isn’t it?” My god, people can be entitled.

Our last stop before we reached our hotel was this glacier.
Unlike the ones we saw in Iceland and Greenland, this was small and you can see the rock underneath it, but what a perfect place! The clouds, mountains, ice, rock and water combined into an almost magical image.

Not a bad way to end a travel day.

Dad joke of the day: