Last Sunday, the weather was beautiful in the south of Norway, so why fire up the grill by the house for dinner when you have a RV in your hangar?
Instead of firing up the porch grill, the wifey and me fired up the IO-360 and set course westbound into what some people call "The heart of Norway"; Telemark.
There's an airstrip "Fyresdal" situated by the lake "Fyresvatn" and it's only 30-40 minute walk to the small community (you cannot call it a "town"...)
Here we are westbound at 6000':
The highest mountain you can see in the horizon is "Gaustadtoppen" which I was telling about in this tread:
http://www.vansairforce.com/community/showthread.php?t=42550
We parked our trusty RV at the airport:
And started walking towards the "town-centre".
On the way, we passed some fields where some sheeps had their dinner:
Note that there's even a few farms way up in the hill... must be hard farming up there!
We passed the local church:
And then we where approaching the resturant. It's the yellow building you can see in the right corner:
There we had a nice dinner on the porch:
No, it's not our bicycles on the pic, but I'm looking for some nice folding bikes which will fit into the -7. It's a shame they are so pricey...
The dinner came with a view:
Note the wood-pile by the lake.
It's there for the "Midsummer lakeshore party" on the 23rd of June each year.
Then people from the community gather together by the lake when the evening comes, light up the fire and their own grills and have a barbeque party on the shore.
All over other places in Scandinavia people do the same thing that evening.
This is to celebrate midsummer and those beautiful Scandinavian summernights where it's not ever getting dark. The sun is just below the horizon for 3-4 hrs and the rise again.
Farther north, the sun is never below the horizon at all: the midnight sun.. and seeing THAT is really beautiful...
During the walk back to the airport, we took a detour along the lakeshore:
And the path took us climbing up some hills and the reward was a nice view:
When we where approaching the airport again, the sun was approaching the hills:
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Instead of firing up the porch grill, the wifey and me fired up the IO-360 and set course westbound into what some people call "The heart of Norway"; Telemark.
There's an airstrip "Fyresdal" situated by the lake "Fyresvatn" and it's only 30-40 minute walk to the small community (you cannot call it a "town"...)
Here we are westbound at 6000':
The highest mountain you can see in the horizon is "Gaustadtoppen" which I was telling about in this tread:
http://www.vansairforce.com/community/showthread.php?t=42550
We parked our trusty RV at the airport:
And started walking towards the "town-centre".
On the way, we passed some fields where some sheeps had their dinner:
Note that there's even a few farms way up in the hill... must be hard farming up there!
We passed the local church:
And then we where approaching the resturant. It's the yellow building you can see in the right corner:
There we had a nice dinner on the porch:
No, it's not our bicycles on the pic, but I'm looking for some nice folding bikes which will fit into the -7. It's a shame they are so pricey...
The dinner came with a view:
Note the wood-pile by the lake.
It's there for the "Midsummer lakeshore party" on the 23rd of June each year.
Then people from the community gather together by the lake when the evening comes, light up the fire and their own grills and have a barbeque party on the shore.
All over other places in Scandinavia people do the same thing that evening.
This is to celebrate midsummer and those beautiful Scandinavian summernights where it's not ever getting dark. The sun is just below the horizon for 3-4 hrs and the rise again.
Farther north, the sun is never below the horizon at all: the midnight sun.. and seeing THAT is really beautiful...
During the walk back to the airport, we took a detour along the lakeshore:
And the path took us climbing up some hills and the reward was a nice view:
When we where approaching the airport again, the sun was approaching the hills:
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