This post is overdue, but as we dive deeper into planning our five month trip that will take us through Europe and Great Britain and the United States, I felt drawn to share our (extensive) photos from our trip to Norway this summer. We bought our caravan, which we promptly named Brexit, in May and took off immediately on a three week trip to Norway.
We caught the ferry early in the morning, and spent our first night in Holland…
Our second night in a rural part of northern Germany…
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PINAnd our third night at an amazing in-the-middle-of-nowhere farm in Denmark…
By day four we were on our way across the water from Denmark to Norway…
We spent our the following couple of nights at a magical campsite just a couple hours into Sweden. We woke to sunshine, the clanging of sheep bells, and our Lulu’s fifth birthday which was spent splashing in the water beyond the campground, roasting “s’mores”, doing laundry, and taking much needed showers…
The following day we drove up into Hardangerfjord, settled ourselves in at a stunning campground where we ended up spending a week. We’d only planned to stay there a couple of nights, but our car had other plans. It’s a long story, but in short: a simple seal that needed replacing proved impossible to diagnose in rural Norway – so we were “stranded”. In the end, I’m glad we were. There were parts of Norway and friends in Sweden we didn’t get to see, but we had a lot of wonderful, quiet family time in this beautiful place…
We got a rental car and spent some time adventuring by ferry, but each night we’d come “home” to the campground where we’d draw, and read Harry Potter, and cook dinner, and sleep to the sounds of the water.
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We took an unexpected detour to Bergen, where we spent five days walking the hills, beating the heat with ice cream and leaping into the water (okay, that was just me), and meeting new friends before flying home (our car and caravan followed by boat thanks to recovery insurance), and the seal was fixed in twenty minutes at a garage in England. Not ideal, but honestly, the trip was (nearly) perfect just the way it happened…
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