Day 6. Time to Chill.

Start point. Skare, 200 km from Bergen.

Finish point. Vadheim, 100 km north of Bergen.

Distance. 200 Miles.

Total. 1750 Miles.

With the worries last night of how I’m going to make it all the way to Nordcap I decided that today would be a relaxing drive, so I switched off the Sat Nav and followed the road signs to Bergen, and I’ll get as far as I get.

There’s no doubt that which ever road you take in this country you’ll go at a snails pace but will be rewarded with a panoramic view that is just amazing, at every turn of the corner, run through a tunnel or brow of a hill you never know what lies ahead, but you can be sure it’s worth the effort.

So as I set off following the signs for Bergen the first town I get to is Odda, its at the foot of Sorfjorden (Fjord), and the main road goes to the right and a smaller road to the left was the one towards Bergen, no worries, I thought…. as I’m driving along I realise that the road runs up to a ferry, nothing new there, but as I look across the Fjord the faster main road runs up and across the top of the Fjord and meets our road at the ferry terminal on the other side of the water, oh well its too late to turn back, about half way up the 30 mile long Fjord there are some road works where they are repairing what was left of the road after half the mountain decided it would rather be in the lake. Its been a recurring theme that any road works in the mountains are for repairs due to landslide or they are building better roads, bridges or tunnels, even a lowly back road gets a tunnel if there’s repeat landslides, and its all the better for it because those roads usually have a bloody great drop in to the murky waters below.

The Ferries that I’ve used so far have been pretty cheap, usually about 109NOK, (£10) so its a nice break and photo opportunity.

On departing the ferry it was a left turn to Bergen which was now about 60 Miles away, half way along there’s a small village called Norheimsund, and thats where I stopped for lunch, pulling into the car park your greeted with a view of a waterfall falling directly onto a House, strange, on closer inspection its just behind the building that is actually a gift shop for the idiot tourists like myself..

It was a short hop to Bergen where, having got all the car parks off google I then drove around looking for somewhere that would fit my van, virtually all the car parking is in garages, and thats ok for those in vans under 2m high, any on street parking was full and for a very limited amount of time.

I drove around for an hour or so and realised its the same as any old port town, the tourist brochures hype it up but the reality is that its not much different from Hull really, I know I might get some stick for that but its full of trucks running to the docks, the town was heaving with people with nothing better to do and I must of missed the histories parts as the road system is a nightmare unless you live there, rant over.

From there its northwardes up the E39 towards the Atlantic road, there was a hold up for about an hour after an accident near the Frekhaug Bridge.

Its not all plain sailing, after about 60 miles you cross the Sognefjorden on another ferry and thats where ive finished for the evening overlooking what I believe to be a Salmon farm, nice view to end the day with.