Why going so far away when France is so beautiful. Look !
I wake up at 8 and worry a little about weather...fog...noooo : big sun. I go after chatting a little with people from Latvia. A little pass, road goes down, and oooooh !
Google Earth link : FAQ I go down to the valley, along a Fjord, with great peaks here and there. What a great place.
I'm cruising on the road along the fjord, then I go on a pass on a very funny road. Snow appears, sun is still shining : it's just like skiing in April, excepted that you go uphill (and that crashes cost more !)
I turn on the left to Geiranger. There is snow everywhere, temperature is 20 °, that's so exciting.
I'm now at a road crossing, but I can't read road signs which are lost in snow. I turn on the right and go to the mountain road.
After 60 m, toll...5 Euros. I go, road is made of gravel, and, after 200 m I'm just behind a bus, I have to ride at 10 km/h, in exhaust smoke . But why did I come here ????
Here is the answer !!
I was right to turn on right !! Here is Geiranger fjord, the most famous one of Norway. Great, isn't it ?? I'm so proud of me that I do a little self-portrait just near 1 m of snow in June-July.
I start going downhill on the road we saw from the summit. Funny corners, good road...and what I see ?? A speed control : I was riding at 130 instead of 70 !!
JUST KIDDING. I did not see any police in the whole travel !!! I'm closer and closer from the fjord. Let's remember what is a fjord : it's sea which is going far away in the land, and this one is 80 km long. And who says sea says huge boat : impressive, isn't it ??
I'm now in the hairpins we saw on the other side of the fjord. I'm crossing a plateau, use another ferrie, and now I can see on the other side the mountains where I was a few time ago.
I'm riding on a wide road, and, after one hour, I decide to stop. I see a road sign indicating a camping at 7 km. I enter the road...and I have to ride 7 km in gravels. Arriving in the camping, I'm so exhausted that I fall doing a stupid u-turn in the grass. Plaf again ! The positive point is that I did not break anything more that what i broke in my garage the first day. The only problem is that my leg was under the bike and now my knee is a bit painful. Nothing serious, but it will disturb me for the 27000 gear changes left to end the travel. Camping is facing north, and you can see that beautiful sunset, at 11.15 PM (sun hour).
