Ferry crossings are everywhere in Norway.  It is sometimes just easier to boat around the mountain than build a  through it.  Some crossings are time-savers so you don’t have to drive in and out of fjords, and others are a link to the outside world. The Fosen ferry route between Flakk and Rørvik is very [...]

This is the last week of sun before the dark season.  As you can tell I’m taking all the pictures I can.  Soon the sun will disappear for two months but even in the darkness we have a ‘bright season’ – Christmas, and not to mention the Northern Lights.  Tis the season to be jolly.

This cute wooden row boat has become a feature of the landscape.  It is always sitting in the same place.  I know it gets used in the fjord but I have never seen it floating on the water, only sitting on the beach.  Soon the ice will come and freeze itself onto the boat.  It [...]

We were meeting friends in the city but were unusually early.  So to pass some time we thought to drive to the south tip of the island to watch the 2:30pm sunset.  It was beautiful.  Throughout Autumn the sunsets move from the West to the South, to the East and eventually disappear.  The more the [...]