Restaurants here are very expensive so we’ve been cooking dinner every night and only going out for lunch. Last night we decided we’d make a traditional Norwegian dish – meatballs with brown sauce! We also roasted some vegetables to go with it. Leon declared it to taste very authentic. Unlike other meatballs, Scandinavian meatballs typically have ginger and nutmeg and allspice so that’s what makes them taste unique.
We woke up to another bright sunny day. Norway’s drought is making for more blue sky photos for our vacation than we’d get in a typical Norwegian summer. Here is Megan reading her Kindle as we take a beautiful ferry crossing to leave Stranda. The book Cinder, recommended by Elaine, finally came in from the library and Megan read the whole thing today in between hiking and sightseeing! It wasn’t just the ferry crossing that was beautiful. The lighting today was especially brilliant and made for some amazing reflections of the mountains and sky against the fjords.
As we crossed the Trollstigen on our way back towards Oslo, we did another hike — this one to a waterfall and a mountain lake. It was right towards the top of the pass and required very little climbing.
Then we went down the Trollstigen and a bit further south to the last rental of this road trip — something quite a bit more rustic! The kitchen isn’t much to speak of so our dinner tonight wasn’t so amazing, but the cottage is cute and very close to a pretty river.
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