What a beautiful, scenic, fun, hard to get around, ridiculously expensive place. These words pretty much sum up our time in Norway. We set off from Petes relatives in Sweden and made our way north the Oslo the capital of Norway. Here we were greeted with some delightful rainy weather as we attempted to find our bearings in the city centre. We spent two nights sightseeing and visiting museums, the Polar Exploration museum is a must when in Oslo and it didn’t disappoint, with amazing exhibitions that were thoroughly enjoyed by us both. We visited the Viking museum with thousand year old Viking boats on display which was pretty fascinating.

From Olso we boarded a 6 hour train voted by lonely planet as the number one most scenic train trip in the world, it did not disappoint, with the highest station at 1200m above sea level with a lot of snow still present. The train bought us to Bergen, where arriving on a Sunday meant absolutely every supermarket and shop was closed and the city was pretty much a ghost town. We only spent a day here as no more time was needed… it was a small city and we were eager to hit the hiking trails.

From Bergen we headed across to a small village called Loftus in the Hardangerfjord where we stayed for two nights, from here we were able to access to the Trolltunga hiking trail which as seen in the pictures was well worth the 23km round trip for the ‘perfect’ photo! Summer time in Norway means most roads are under construction and maintenance work is being carried out. We were staying in the fjord with only one road in and out. The morning of the hike the public bus didn’t show up so we ended up hitch hiking to the start of the hike, we then hitched a few more times to get back home, it was actually a really good way to meet some locals and other travellers.

After our hike in to Trolltunga we headed off the next morning to the city of Stavanger after a strong coffee and some ibuprofen to get the legs working! Stavanger was a great town and we really liked the place. We stayed in a great Airbnb with several other travellers and the weather managed to hold out for us. We took a ferry to the fjord to do the Pulpit rock trail. This was a really easy half day walk compared to Trolltunga, there were lots of people on the trail so lots of laughs along the way. The views from the top of the flat rock that sticks out over the fjord are breathtaking well worth the trip up. After another night in Stavanger we decided Norway was just a tad too expensive and super difficult to navigate the public transport system so decided to move on to England. This was our first flight since May when we flew from Korea to Hong Kong, our overland travel from Hong Kong to Norway took around 2 months as we covered over 10,000 km on trains and ferrys.