The impetus for this trip, originally scheduled for the summer of 2020, and we all know how that turned out, was to stay at the Juvet Landscape Hotel. My original solo plan involved an additional flight, a boat, a train, a bus, a donkey-cart (maybe), a jet-ski... hell, I don't know anymore how I planned on getting there, but it didn't involve renting a car and simply driving to the destination. As the trip morphed to include a partner who learned to drive on the main streets of Boston, the twisting, narrow, cliff-side roads between Oslo and the tiny village of Valdall near where the hotel is located became a passable obstacle. Reaching this destination was going to be a long day of driving, we knew that when we set off, but we didn't anticipate a mountain pass, a ferry (which ran every 20 minutes so when we showed up 1 minute after the boat left, it was no big deal), and a GPS that seemed to want to kill us -- or at least strand us in the middle of some Norwegian woods. We did find a gorgeous lookout to a fjord along the way, though, and after getting close to our destination before being led astray (damn GPS...), we made it to where we were going, and it was totally worth all the hassle.
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| random view point of a random village along the way |
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| Geringer fjord |
