Last weekend, we all piled onto a boat on Hardanger Fjord for the last trip of the season. It was wet, windy, cold and foggy. We were all well-prepared though, except perhaps for ropes to anchor us to the deck in case we got blown away.
It was actually crazy windy.
We took the boat across the fjord to Eidfjord first, where it was announced that we were going to be staying for a couple hours. This caused much staring balefully at the pouring rain and closed shops (nothing's open on Sundays in Norway). But we all put our trooper hats on, and trudged around in the rain for an hour, before it finally let up and we could get our barbecues going.
Coming into Eidfjord.
Taking cover for a couple minutes.
Food!
Finally we were allowed to get back on the boat, and they took us on a sort of zigzagging tour from town to town along the edges of the fjord. It seems the locals use the boat as a sort of ferry between neighbouring towns, because we kept stopping just long enough to let just a couple people on.
It was dark by the time we finally landed in Norheimsund, where the bus was waiting to take us back to Bergen. I quite enjoyed the journey in the dark, watching all the Norwegians getting on and off the boat on their way home for the evening. I think this would definately be a trip to do again sometime when the weather's not so dreich.
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