We went through Hell today, well we bypassed it actually.
Hell is a small town on the E6 highway on the way up north. Fortunately ‘Hell’
in Norwegian means ‘success’ or ‘luck’ so I would presume there is no stigma in
living there.
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| sampling the wares |
We spent the morning mooching around the summer market and
took advantage of sampling the free food. There were some excellent cheeses (we
bought a creamy blue called Histra Gardsmat) and some yummy berry jellies (we
bought the Aquavite jelly). These jellies go really well with cheeses and
sausage. It was a good opportunity to sample some moose and reindeer and, yes,
we bought a reindeer sausage but I managed to urge Graham NOT to try the whale
meat.
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| Picture of a Moose - the one on the rock that is |
There is a large 6000 year old rock carving of a moose at
Bolareinen so we made that our main destination today. It is pretty much life
size and we found there is a carving of a chap on skis there as well. Quite
incredible how they have lasted so long in all the cold and wet weather they
have up here.
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| there really is a skier carved in this rock |
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| info from the site |
Hi just found your blog! We used to visit the witches museum when camping with our bike club over at altarnum. I'm enjoying the norweigan section as we followed a very similar route by bike a few years back.
ReplyDeleteHope you liked the museum - Norway was amazing - would love to go back
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