Oslo to Vardal July 4

From Oslo to Vardal July 4

Wow what a great day, leaving our Hotel in Oslo we fill up with petrol and Vic was in 3^rdposition we headed West onto a highway which was boring, although there was no traffic as it was Saturday morning,>After about ½ hour Vic had had enough of Highway riding and told Manual that we are going to ride our own ride into the mountains, we took off and “the beautiful young” ones followed as they were also fed up with Highway riding.

Vic had already put in his GPS what route he wanted to do as he picked out a great ride with many sweepers and corners around a lake. We rode away from the group , we never saw them again until we arrived at the hotel.

Manual told us that there was an ancient wooden church built in the 14^th century that we must see so off we rode. The road was fantastic no cars or any traffic the road just followed the lake, there were many beautiful waterfalls cascading down the mountain we saw a couple of signs in Norwegian which we could not read so we just rode on.. UNTIL the road had barricades across it  Just 6 klm from the road junction the road was closed as they were doing repairs to a tunnel, so we had to turn around and go right around the lake which was klms around, we took the detour road which they were repairing and it was in bad shape, big pot holes big bumps in the road, but it all made for interesting  riding. The V strom never missed a beat Vic is so happy with the motor and the handling

We stopped at the Church which Manual suggested and waited for the rest to arrive we waited for 1 hour but they never arrived, They took another road and saw another church built in the 12 th century..

Moving along we stopped and had a Pizza for lunch then rode the mountains and valleys saw so many interesting things along the way, there are house which has grass growing on the roof, with goats eating off them truly amazing, did many switch backs to our beautiful location on the lake..

We rode over 400klm s today and beat the group to the hotel by half an hour

The saga of the bags They arrived this morning

The passport woe , will be resolved when they get to Bergen,

So far Norway has mountains lakes,waterfalls good roads and very expensive beer..and food we should have eaten more Goulash we now are on a seafood die