Norway tour (2009)

from Bergen to Lofoten Islands via Voss, Trondheim, Mo i Rana and Bodo

During the "Extreme Sports Week", skiers parachuted from the helicopter (photo at left) and exhibition-skied for the audience sitting on the slopes (photo at right).

Traffic jam in Norway.

My tent and a glacier behind

Another section of the same glacier on the other side of the camp.

Roads frequently followed or crossed over raging rivers

Winding roads.

Another set of serpentines to climb zigzags on the far side of the bay.

Numerous campervans and a cruise ship.  

(Campervans were the most frequent type of vehicles on the roads.)

The front side of the same cruise ship (producing smoke) and a look up the fjord (the photo below)

Getting to the mountain pass is fulfilling.

The same cruise ship in another fjord two days later.

(The ship turns slowly, presumably for passengers to get the complete view of the surrounding.)

It is much colder in tunnels. This one is 6 km long, but with good ventilation.

On one tunnel bypass. (Bypassing some tunnels may require much climbing and the bypass may be overgrown.)

The suitably named Arctic Inn is close to the polar circle.

Seven minutes difference between the sunset and sunrise (at the latitude of almost 70 degrees).

This glacier is little above the sea level.

Boats heading towards the bridge can sink in the world-strongest sea-current

(vortexes below photographed from the bridge).

Many drying racks for cod are visible. They are full from February to June.

Crossed from Norway to Denmark and rode along the Danish section of the North Sea cycle trail:

Took a train to Magdeburg (Germany) and rode the "Elba River Cycle Trail" to Prague (Czech R.), and then the "Danube Trail" from Linz (Austria) to Budapest (Hungary), with some rides in Serbia.

Elba and Danube river trails can be very busy at times.

As with everything else along the cycle-trails, even a church is the "cyclists' church".

In a bicycle museum

What a feeling: the unrestricted freedom in motion.

A few bathers floating with the Elba's current.

Took to the hills a few times to shortcut the cycle trail meandering with the Elba.

Indoor tenting in Austria to avoid mosquito patrols at night. (No, I did not stake the tent.)

Mosquitoes are generally not a problem for cyclists, but thousands laid in waiting in the shadow at the far side of this submerged bridge, which was exactly the place where cyclists had to spend time reattaching the luggage after multiple crossings.