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This afternoons view when we arrived....
similar to yesterday!
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Woke again to rain, and its turned cold and very windy, guessing
the weather gods are paying us back for leaving New Zealand to one of its
wettest winters in years. Decided to move on though but not to go too far, you
miss so much on days like this. This is a very good camp and we did all the van
ablutions before driving up the very narrow 1 1/2kms to the main road,
thankfully we had it all to ourselves!
Found a Co-op grocery shop on the road at Etne and
definitely needed to have a good stock up, supplies were getting low. Raincoats
on as we raced inside. Noticing the prices more expensive than Sweden. But I
was very happy to have found another packet of Klenning that I had discovered
in a supermarket a few days ago. I had asked the guy behind the counter what
they were and he struggled to find the exact words but when he mentioned
cinnamon I decided to try some, and fell in love. Have googled them and they
are a Lefse, a soft tortilla that are folded and encase a butter and cinnamon
cream. Soo good. Then it was back on the road to a Shell Service Station at Knapphus
where we were able to have our German gas tank refilled. Very helpful staff as
needed to go behind the shop to another building where a friendly chap refilled
for us. Like Sweden, Norwegians speak very good English which makes it so much
easier for us.
All jobs done and we were back on the E39 heading south. Probably
some of the worst weather we have driven in on this trip but thankfully there
were none of the narrow roads we had around the fjord on Sunday. Only 5 tunnels
today with the longest about 1 1/2kms. The scenery would have been so
picturesque on a fine day, with a lot of small farming settlements and little
inlets from the coast. We ended up crossing a number of bridges as we island
hopped. We had this small port on our list as a possible stop and as the rain
kept coming down, we decided to call it quits at 1pm, the forecast for tomorrow
is looking much brighter thankfully. And it really is an interesting spot and
only 50 NOK (NZ$8) which we paid at the nearby Co-op store. Hopefully the rain
will ease a bit later and we can go for a walk and check this place out, but
the best we could do in the meantime was put our feet up with our books.
……later. By 6.30 the rain had stopped and with coats and woollies
on we went for a walk, head down into the wind. Quite an interesting fishing
port with small waterfront cabins with their own jetties. We stopped and
chatted to a really nice guy, he told us his name which started with R but I
couldn’t even begin to spell it! He works on an oil rig out of Stavenger, 2
weeks on and 4 weeks off. This is his get away place and he had just been out
to empty his crab pots. He invited us to have a look at his catch which was in
a crate tied to the wharf. He also puts pots out for lobster but the season
doesn’t start until October.
The wind is still blowing hard but the rain has stopped. We
will get rocked to sleep tonight, I think.
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Wild weather for driving!
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Dried herring in the supermarket.
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My new favourite, traditional Norwegian
Lefse with butter and cinnamon cream
filling.
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Looked like a ship from the oil rigs in for repair.
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Typical Norwegian round stern boat, belonging
to "R"
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These were big crabs.
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A window full of treasures.
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Harbourside cabins.
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