Birding in the Land of the Midnight Sun
This fantastic birding bonanza took us from the lakes and forests of Finland to the fjords and mountains of northern Norway.
This fantastic birding bonanza took us from the lakes and forests of Finland to the fjords and mountains of northern Norway.
Visiting Bo with Naima and the boys My grandsons are always asking to go back to Norway. This time it was just my daughter Naima and her two boys, Max and Luke. Naima’s husband Les joined us for the week-end at the end of our visit. We hired a car at the airport and stayed with my cousin Bo and her husband Torolf in Gjøvik. The markers on the map shows the areas we visited. Gjøvik We walked over…
Summer holiday in Norway with the boys We had great fun during our visit and I took rather a large number of photos. Here is a selection split into 3 lots. Around our cabin and a trip to Norefjell. Hardanger vidda Day trip to Langedraget
Trip to Bergen with my cousin My cousin Bodil and I went by train to Bergen where we stayed for a few days. Our aunt Vera and her daughter, our cousin Tone, came back to Gjøvik with us with Tone doing the driving. We stopped off at her bother Tore’s cabin in the mountains on the way back. The photos were taken with my mobile phone.
Whilst living in Norway David and I took the girls on several trips across the mountains to the fjords and back. We usually went up past Beitostølen, around Jotunheimen and down to Sognefjorden. During this trip we also went across to Hardangerfjord to Voss and Osa where my father’s family is from. We usually came back via Hardanger vidda. Here are some photos from our trip during the summer of 1988. These were scanned from the original old photos so…