{"id":3458,"date":"2012-09-09T22:26:49","date_gmt":"2012-09-09T21:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3458"},"modified":"2012-11-03T17:28:05","modified_gmt":"2012-11-03T17:28:05","slug":"norway-day-2-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3458","title":{"rendered":"Norway Day 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Sunday 9th September<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Our journey to the fjords began.  We travelled from Oslo to Domb\u00c3\u00a5s on the Dovre railway which goes past typical Norwegian scenery of picturesque towns and forests and gently winds around, very close to the edges of lakes.<\/p>\n<p>We changed trains at Domb\u00c3\u00a5s to reach Andalsnes on the Rauma railway.  This really was a stunning journey.  The train cuts though incredibly dramatic mountains on both sides which are black, almost vertical and capped with snow.  If that wasn&#8217;t spectacular enough, there are waterfalls running down the mountains too.  It was too difficult to get a good photo from the train so I&#8217;m borrowing someone else&#8217;s.  You can see the train track running along the base of the Troll Wall; as passengers we were craning our necks to see to the top. <\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbase.com\/blackone\/image\/64948928\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Trollveggen1-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Troll Wall\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2897\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Trollveggen1-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Trollveggen1.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n<p><br style=\"clear:both;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The final leg of the journey ending in \u00c3\u2026lesund was by bus.  The bus journey had fantastic views of fjords, valleys, mountains and dramatic unlined tunnels cut into the rock.<br \/>\n\u00c3\u2026lesund is a very picturesesque little place surrounded by sea and little island with views of snow-capped mountains in the distance:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/IMG_2025edit.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/IMG_2025edit-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"View from hotel\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2951\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/IMG_2032edit.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/IMG_2032edit-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"The photo that all tourists take\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2955\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/IMG_2039edit.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/IMG_2039edit-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"One of the islands\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2957\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><br style=\"clear:both;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We had dinner at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sjoebua.no\/\">Sj\u00c3\u00b8bua<\/a> which was very good indeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday 9th September Our journey to the fjords began. We travelled from Oslo to Domb\u00c3\u00a5s on the Dovre railway which goes past typical Norwegian scenery of picturesque towns and forests and gently winds around, very close to the edges of lakes. We changed trains at Domb\u00c3\u00a5s to reach Andalsnes on the Rauma railway. This really [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3458"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3480,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3458\/revisions\/3480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}