Olav's Way Page 5.
The next day we saw:
Tolvsteinringen Stone Circle
We thought this picture of a shiny car next to a crumbly hut kind of summed up Norway.
We camped on top of Olav's Kilde, a huge rock which has a slightly murky spring at its base. There is actually a cornfield level with the top of the rock, and our tent is on the edge of it, though in the photo it looks like its balanced on the top. The rock was lovely and warm, and stayed warm into the evening.
Furnes Kommune's Holy Manhole.
The next day we entered Furnes Kommune and then Lillehamar appeared on the horizon. The big city!
We got a room in the youth hostel and then met up with our friend Stein, who lives over the lake in Gjovik. We had a great chat about musical instruments.
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Its just as well our room was nice and had a tv, because after seeing Stein we went out for a burger and got food poisoning. We were both terribly ill, Corwen couldn't keep even water down for 24 hours. We ended up staying for 3 nights, which cost us 180 pounds! That was the whole accommodation budget gone in one swell foop and we were even further behind with the walking.
Strangely foreshortened photo of us walking under the road through a tunnel.
Moose on the Loose.
Lake Mjosa narrows here and is very green. In fact two rivers meet upstream, one green and one clear, as we would eventually see. The path starts going up and down the valleyside madly to stay off the E6 which occupies the flat land in the valley below. Good views but painful legs and tired backs.
At Last Some Clear Waymarking... The E6.
Funky Letterbox
We climbed a long way up the mountain to get across this stream.
Milestone.
After a monster day we cheekily camped right close to a farm that offers pilgrim accommodation (for money) but they didn't seem to mind. A room with a view.
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