@brittarnhild
With us living in Trondheim, Terje´s father south west in Norway at Moi, we drive the 1000kms at least once a year. One way we do it the "fast" way, 12-14 hours on the road starting in the morning, arriving late at night, the other way we make a tour out of it, exploring the scenic, pictyuresque nature of western Norway. Every year we try to take a different route, every year we seek out charming places to stay the night. Usually we do the tour in two days with one night at a hotel, some years we spend a week. This year we will use three days on the road, which means two places for over night stays.
Starting from Moi after breakfast we could have taken the main E39 to Stavanger, but we chose a detour down to Egersund and along the area of Jæren, farmer´s country dotted with a million of boulders.
First stop was Hå Gamle Prestegård, Hå Old Vicarage, where we strolled the exhibitions, had coffee with a view and bought a book about lighthouses along the coast of Norway. When we get enough of the historical wodden hotels along the coast, we will start exploting the lighthouses, and stay overnight in them.
The area reminded me of The Holy Island, Lindisfarne.
Next stop was Skudeneshavn, and old seafarer village from the time of the many sailships from Norway on the oceans of the world. Today old Skudeneshavn has 225 traditional wooden houses and is regarded as one of the best perserved towns in Europe.
We walked around for a long time, and found new treasures everywhere.
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We have stayed the night in Haugesund, but before coming there we stopped at an old church dedicated to St.Olav, Avaldsnes church.
On the north side of the church with stumbled upan a stone with a legend, Virgin Mary´s Needle.......
.....but that´s a tale for another day.
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Today there will be postcards to ARR and Daena.
