Saturday 23 November 2013

Of Trolls and Vikings

We got away to Norway in July to have a look around, it is one of those places that I had seen photos of these crazy landscapes and always wanted to experience for myself. So when the chance came I was pretty excited to finally check the place out.

The plan was to hire a car in Oslo, have it for a week to drive out to Bergen and back again. It was a pretty epic trip that included glimpses of the midnight sun, a stay in what is arguably the hotel with the best view in the world, a ride on the world's steepest railway line, driving through the world's longest tunnel, standing on top of glacial carved fjords and stupidly placed rocks almost a kilometre above the ground below, and other awesome sights, sounds and times.

I'm stoked to have had a taste of this place, but another week would have probably done it justice, even if it was stupidly expensive.





Kjeragbolten "The Hanging Rock", Hannah standing over 900m above the Fjord below. 


One of the trips highlights, catching up with an old friend in Josh, this was at 1am in Bergen - note the light in the sky.





Oslo


The usual waterfall.


Laerdal Tunnel - the world's longest road tunnel at 24.5km long. It has three of these caverns in it to simulate a sunrise and wake the driver up. A pretty good idea considering you are in darkness for almost 30minutes (see the darkness in the tunnel ahead?)

The view from our room in Stalheim Hotel, if you look up a list of the worlds best hotel views - this hotel will always be on it.

Lunch in Stalheim
Waterfall Rainbow




Myrdal, as seen from the Flam Railway - the steepest railway in the world.


Bryggen


The following photos are from an evening in Bergen





Uriksen above Bergen

The Fish Markets



Preikestolen "Pulpit Rock" just over 600m up. 

Gotta live on the edge somtimes

Like actually on the edge




Monday 4 November 2013

A long time ago

Due to a few different reasons such as: being busy, doing better stuff than this, not being in an internet area, or just being slack, means that I haven't updated this for quite a while. It also means that I have quite a back up of stuff from as far back as June.

As a result, the next few posts, if I get around to them, will be pretty basic. Or the artistic person will say minimalist.

These photos below are from our delivery from Mallorca to Turkey, with a stopover in Malta.


Hopefully I will get a better photo of these guys soon.

Valletta, Malta - a pretty crazy little town that has been invaded, defended, purchased, garrisoned and everything else by almost everyone in and around the Mediterranean for as long as time itself. 

Our little boat, 3 years after being launched in New Zealand, Zefira finally made it "home" to Valletta.

Extreme Cat





Leaving Valletta

Typical glass out in the Ionian Sea

Doug with possibly the smallest fish we have ever landed on the boat.