Day 280 Sunday 22 Jul 2007 Valldal to Sognal, Norway

From Valldal we plan to catch a ferry, well really more a tourist cruise, to Geiranger, which is on the world heritage list. The ferry is quite small and only goes twice a day so we get up early and put the car at the head of the queue before going back to the hotel for breakfast. We have no problem getting on this time and it even turns up on time.

The cruise along the fjords to Geiranger is quite spectacular as is the drive onwards up the Dibbastig, a road which winds up to a lookout on the snowline at 1500m, definitely not suitable for a car with arthritis but it doesn’t seem to mind and the view from the top is awesome although the route is littered with broken down campervans.

Then it’s along the shores of numerous fjords and lakes and through numerous tunnels, with a visit to a glacier coming down from Europe’s largest ice-cap. The blue green ice and crevasses are quite close although it’s retreating rapidly up the mountainside. Soon we reach Sognal and find a little pension and a pizza bar.