After being very blessed with the weather in Jørpeland and Stavanger, we awoke to a rainy day for our long drive to Bergen today. We got ready and packed up, said goodbye to our beautiful accommodation overlooking the fjord and headed onto Bergen - about a 5 hour drive. The lady at the tourist office in Jørpeland yesterday recommended taking the scenic route up instead of just taking the ferry to Stavanger and then driving up that way. So we took t...

We had a nice relaxing morning at home before heading out ready for some more exploring. We drove to the nearby tourist office to get some ideas for today. Most of the good attractions were apparently closed as it's not close enough to summer yet but the very friendly people there did recommend that we catch the ferry from Tau (about a 10 minute drive away) to Stavanger. The ferry ride was a nice 20 minute journey. Once we got to Stavanger we headed through the m...

Preikestolen, known as Pulpit Rock, was about 10 minutes drive from where we were staying. It's a large rocky platform 604 m high overlooking Lysefjorden. Despite a foggy morning, it soon started to clear and after a quick detour to the supermarket to get some rolls and snackable vegetables, we drove out to the Preikestolen carpark.  Our Airbnb host, Egil, had told us that you can park at the hotel just next to the car park for free which would mean that we ...

We had a long 6.5 hour drive from Arendal to Jørpeland today. Luckily the scenery was absolutely incredible so it wasn't a boring drive! There were so many lakes (a lot of them were frozen lakes), snow everywhere, cliffs, waterfalls running down the cliffs, and lots of trees. We stopped for lunch along the way at Fjotland overlooking a lake (and right next to a church and cemetery) and had noodles that we made this morning. Towards the end of the drive, we c...

Waking up this morning to a bright and sunny day in Drammen was a good start. The clocks on our phones said 8:30 am when we woke up but Kate still felt a little tired after 8.5 hours of sleep. It turns out that daylight saving had just commenced that night so we actually only had 7.5 hours of sleep. Filip and Emil were up already after their night out - they didn't actually get into any bars as they got there at 2 am but they were about to shut because of the clo...