We woke up to another sunny day. Here is Leon on the hotel porch getting some work done before breakfast. Breakfast was a smorgasbord of cereal, cheese, deli meats, bacon, eggs, bread, crackers, some pickled vegetables and yogurt.
I was even a sport and tried out some of the very popular Norwegian brunøst (brown cheese) even after Leon told me he had some in the past and that it was awful. I decided it wasn’t awful but I wouldn’t purposely eat it again. On the plate below, the brunøst is the stuff on the piece of cracker nearest to the coffee.
Our next 2 nights will be in Isfjorden, a small village north of the Geirangerfjord region. Along the way we made a stop at a viewing destination called Snøhatta Viewpoint. Snøhatta is the 2nd largest mountain in Norway and they built a unique viewing room to protect people from the strong winds common in this area. It is about the size of a semi trailer. One side is solid plate glass windows and the other side is sculpted wood with lots of curves and places to sit and enjoy the view.
Once in Isfjorden we headed to the AirBnB which is pretty idyllic, a farmhouse with views of mountains in almost every direction. This is the view from the front yard. There is a picnic table and a small deck where I think we will sit and eat breakfast tomorrow. But after we settled in at the AirBnB we went on one more hike before dinner. I’ll write about that tomorrow in the next blog since it is getting late here. By the way guess what time the sunrise and sunset are here: sunrise is 4:40 am and sunset is 10:45pm!! Even between those hours though it still is a bit light outside, sort of like twilight lasting all night.
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