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by David and Susan Bratt
Sat Aug 19, 2017 10:57 am
Forum: Our Travels With Rover
Topic: 2012 July 19 Into Sweden
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2012 July 19 Into Sweden

We have crossed from Norway into Sweden, headed for Stockholm and whatever else we find on our way. At the border the condition of the roads immediately deteriorated some, but they are still wide and have generous enough shoulders to remain in the “good” category. The E18, the main road between Oslo...
by David and Susan Bratt
Fri Aug 18, 2017 8:44 pm
Forum: Our Travels With Rover
Topic: 2012 more Oslo
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2012 more Oslo

Untitled.jpg We were thinking these had been pretty impressive days . . . but then came Sunday. We had saved a few free museums because our three-day Oslo passes had expired, so we first stopped at the Rådhus (city hall), not knowing what to expect. We were absolutely blown away. It is in this buil...
by David and Susan Bratt
Fri Aug 18, 2017 8:38 pm
Forum: Our Travels With Rover
Topic: 2012 July 16 Oslo is wonderful
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2012 July 16 Oslo is wonderful

Oslo has been great fun: two days of mostly rain, followed by three days of sunshine. The campground remains a mud pit in places and we are amazed that people aren’t getting stuck as they leave or come in, dozens per day in each direction. We kept an eye out for neighbors leaving, and after the firs...
by David and Susan Bratt
Fri Aug 18, 2017 8:31 pm
Forum: Our Travels With Rover
Topic: 2012 July 12 Oslo campground
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2012 July 12 Oslo campground

Then we drove on to Oslo. We managed to get lost when the signposts to the campground ran out well before the highway maze did, while the GPS directions resembled a pretzel. We went through the Operatunnelen three times in about 10 minutes--probably some kind of record, at least for an American-lice...
by David and Susan Bratt
Fri Aug 18, 2017 8:27 pm
Forum: Our Travels With Rover
Topic: 2012 July 11
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2012 July 11

We have been dealing with rather weak internet connections and blog loading problems for a few days. It has been frustrating trying to resolve it all. We needed a good internet connection at the right time of day to make a phone call to our blog server in the US. One day we tried at a hotel while wa...
by David and Susan Bratt
Fri Aug 18, 2017 8:07 pm
Forum: Our Travels With Rover
Topic: 2012 July 8 Whaling and Vikings
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2012 July 8 Whaling and Vikings

On Sundays everything (including many churches) is closed except for a few museums. Now headed north towards Oslo, we stopped in Sandefjord to see the whaling fountain and museum. bones.JPG Apart from a huge ferry just leaving for Denmark, the streets, parking lots, and sea were empty. Whaling used ...
by David and Susan Bratt
Fri Aug 18, 2017 7:56 pm
Forum: Our Travels With Rover
Topic: 2012 July 7 Larvik
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2012 July 7 Larvik

We have been very fortunate with rain: it seems to come mostly at night. On Saturday we left the campground in a light drizzle, stopped for our first moose on the road, and spent the rest of the day in a mist that never quite managed to get organized enough to become real rain. Imoose.jpg Arriving i...
by David and Susan Bratt
Thu Aug 17, 2017 4:14 pm
Forum: Our Travels With Rover
Topic: 2012 July 6 Little towns
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2012 July 6 Little towns

July 6 The last few days seem to be repeating themselves. Each new town we visit along Norway’s south coast has an old section of little wooden white houses, an abundance of flowers, busy harbors and ever more beautiful views out to sea. We stumbled into a free overnight parking place in Grimstad, a...
by David and Susan Bratt
Thu Aug 17, 2017 3:53 pm
Forum: Our Travels With Rover
Topic: 2012 July 3 Free entertainment
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2012 July 3 Free entertainment

We sometimes feel that we are other people’s entertainment, as they watch us try to back Rover into a tiny site or simply look us over, noticing the Minnesota license plates and especially the bristle “mud flaps” on the back bumper. But yesterday someone else provided the entertainment. We were camp...
by David and Susan Bratt
Thu Aug 17, 2017 3:34 pm
Forum: Our Travels With Rover
Topic: 2012 July 1 Stavanger and our disappearing $
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2012 July 1 Stavanger and our disappearing $

We moved on to Stavanger, a relatively easy 109 miles on the E39. But this main road ends too at the water’s edge. We had two ferry rides. Because this is a main road the ferries are very frequent: we had to wait about 15 minutes for one and drove right on to the second. As we were approaching the b...
by David and Susan Bratt
Thu Aug 17, 2017 3:18 pm
Forum: Our Travels With Rover
Topic: 2012 June 29 Bergen
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2012 June 29 Bergen

Bergen is a delightful city. Even though Rover was in a crowded, dumpy place, we felt comfortable leaving her for the whole day and going into the city. Rover is bottom left right against the building.(We have rarely felt unsafe in any campground.) IMG_6240.JPG Our own comfort is sometimes another m...
by David and Susan Bratt
Thu Aug 17, 2017 3:08 pm
Forum: Our Travels With Rover
Topic: June 26 Voss and the GPS
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June 26 Voss and the GPS

We picked the wrong time to make our way to Voss: the week of the annual Extreme Sport Festival. We got the last spot in the campground, which is perfectly located for a visit to this town: in a park on the lake, only three blocks from the city center. But even empty it would have been a tight fit f...
by David and Susan Bratt
Thu Aug 17, 2017 2:54 pm
Forum: Our Travels With Rover
Topic: 2012 Part of Norway in a Nutshell
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2012 Part of Norway in a Nutshell

The train ride from Flam goes up the mountain to the top where it meets the Norway in a Nutshell train to and from Oslo to Bergen. This is a train that gives tourists a taste of Norway's incredible natural beauty over just a couple of days. We got on in Flam, rode to the top and turned abound and ca...
by David and Susan Bratt
Thu Aug 17, 2017 2:27 pm
Forum: Our Travels With Rover
Topic: 2012 June 23 The most beautiful day
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2012 June 23 The most beautiful day

For the past two days we have been surrounded by incredible natural beauty. The road we took south through the Vatedalen Valley rivals the Geirangerfjord in landscapes. IMG_5909.JPG We had to stop several times just to take it in. Probably the only reason it is not inundated with tourists is that, u...
by David and Susan Bratt
Thu Aug 17, 2017 2:14 pm
Forum: Our Travels With Rover
Topic: 2012 June 21 Our first Fjord tour
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2012 June 21 Our first Fjord tour

Today we made a bus back up. Tour buses are the bullies of the Norwegian roads: they know where they are going because they have been there before so they drive fast, they take turns wide, and they often roam in gangs. We had made our way to Hellesylt, a small village on the (we are continually assu...

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