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As I said, early morning tea was delivered by Kumar.\u00a0 Another day, another port!\u00a0 It’s \u00c5lesund today!\u00a0 A pretty little town with a small harbour with old sailing fishing boats (just like in Brixham) in front of our ship …<\/p>\n
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The waterfront houses are very pretty …<\/p>\n
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… but some of the cars are a bit lost!<\/p>\n
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Seeing as how we have got onto vehicle number plates, I need to document something.\u00a0 We have seen a number of different plates.\u00a0 \u00a0Specifically Green ones with black numbers …<\/p>\n
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Our guide told us vehicles with these plates are mainly (but not exclusively) used on commercial vans.\u00a0 \u00a0The road tax is lower, but such vehicles can carry a maximum of three people.\u00a0 What he didn’t say was that there are a number of other styles in Norway.\u00a0 In fact there are eleven different colour combinations!\u00a0 These include black on orange (military vehicles), yellow on black for off-road vehicles (eg snowmobiles), white on black (rally cars which are approved for road use),\u00a0 yellow on blue (diplomatic corps) etc etc.\u00a0 I know, boring!<\/p>\n
My favourite would be black on red (used for testing unregistered but roadworthy vehicles, prototypes etc. Issued at a cost of NOK 310 – about \u00a330 – per day!).\u00a0 Boring, boring!<\/p>\n
Well, I was interested anyway!<\/p>\n
Today’s trip took us to several islands to the north of \u00c5lesund.\u00a0 It gave us an understanding of the difficulties of land travel in fjordland!\u00a0 It’s basically all about bridges and tunnels – lots of tunnels.<\/p>\n
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The hamlet of Alnes on the island of God\u00f8y is reached via a 1.5 km long, single-lane tunnel with just five passing places and no traffic control.\u00a0 I can just see that being useful as a crossing of the Dart estuary back at home!<\/p>\n
Having safely negotiated the approach tunnel with just one hesitation, we can see why there are only twenty houses on the island.\u00a0 Twenty houses, one lighthouse and two beaches.\u00a0 We climbed the lighthouse …<\/p>\n
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… and the two of us walked down to the nearby beach which was lovely and peaceful – but probably very exposed in rough and stormy weather …<\/p>\n
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Returning to the ship,\u00a0 we paused first at Giske church …<\/p>\n
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Built of marble in the 12C, it features some beautiful wood carvings.<\/p>\n
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Finally, we stopped at Mt Aksla with stunning views over \u00c5lesund and our ship.<\/p>\n
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Well that’s three days covered.\u00a0 Six more to go before we leave Norway – which we actually did a few hours ago!\u00a0 I’m so far behind!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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