Slept in til 8:45, showered, breakfast, packed, looked at Anna's wedding pictures online, checked out, walked to town, bought a memory card, made it to the bus station, on to sunny Grimstad!
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The weather is between 20-25 degrees C. Bridges high above fjord after fjord give way to arched tunnels directly into the mountains. We arrived at the bus station in Grimstad and stopped at the McDonalds to eat our leftovers. The current meal special of a burger with fried onions, fries, and a drink cost 99 Kr. $20.00. Maybe their government tries to discourage them from eating it??
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| Saab nostalgia. |
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We started walking toward town, guessing where the water might be, and hoping we'd find the tourist office without a map. We did! Yay. Vestre Grom 16 led us down a short country lane and into a neighborhood of small but detailed houses. 16 was a red 1.5 story house with the door open, shoes, spilling out of the entryway, and voices coming from upstairs. We knocked on the door and called out to Karianna's mother-in-law, Anna. She came down with her husband Lars, her brother Oyvinde, and his two daughters Caroline and Matilde.
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We set up our tent in Anna's other brother's yard (they are renting the garage and guesthouse from the people who bought their house as they build a new one a hundred yards away, whewww). We had hardly started before his wife was trying to shoo us away, speaking in Norwegian to us. Anna came to explain that we weren't strangers camping on their property.
Fireweed and wild roses are everywhere!
Fireweed and wild roses are everywhere!
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