We had some crisp frosty days with blue skies a few weeks back. Amazingly we still haven't had much wind so some of the trees are still ablaze with color. I'm starting to wonder if the winds are avoiding Kristiansund.
Vi hadde noen skarpe kalde dager med blå himmel et par uker siden. Utrolig har vi ikke hatt mye vind så noen av trærne er fortsatt med farger. Jeg begynner å lure på vinden å unngå på Kristiansund.
This is nineteen dollars worth of candy in Norway.
Stop your screaming my American readers and consider this. Norwegian children receive free dental care through the age of eighteen. So it's like a sugar tax. Children with healthy teeth grow into adults with healthy teeth. Ask any dentist and they will tell you, the health of your teeth affects your overall health. As in gum disease,diabetes,inflammation,dementia, and rhuematoid arthritis to name a few.
So I will gladly pay the sugar tax. OK, I did scream (quietly I hope) at the store. But I still bought the candy because .....it's HALLOWEEN!
October 17th, was our 35th wedding anniversary and we wanted to go somewhere special but not have to travel far. Lucky for us we live only an hour away from one of the worlds' most famous roads. The Atlantic Road in Norway. I am going to apologize right now for the photos as my dear little IPAD is terrible at taking landscape photos. We waited til evening to go hoping the skies would cloud up a bit for better photos but that just wasn't going to happen. Besides, I think it might be a sin to wish for the sun to go away in Norway. They recently put in a nice easy access walkway and a kiosk with a cafe.
The rocky landscape has a surreal feel to it.
To the memory of those that went to sea and never came back. This is a typical shape for memorials in Norway.
Believe it or not there is a doorway in this wall and you go into a cafe inside the hill.
AHHHHH! KRISTIANSUND..........vakker!
KRISTIANSUND ..........beautiful.
Looks like I'm coming home from the hospital in Ålesund today. The team of doctors have done an amazing job and I'm back on my feet again. HURRAY!!! So I should be able to get out more and post more about Kristiansund with some photos. Which is a good thing because the below drawing will be the closing page for the coloring book. See you again soon!
Lilly is hiking up to the VARDEN. It is the highest point on KIRKELANDET at 78 meters. There is a wonderful 360 degree view from up there. Inside the VARDEN are binoculars at the top of a winding staircase. As you climb the stairs you can enjoy the murals on the walls.
A levada is an irrigation channel,ditch,or aqueduct on the island of Madeira. Turns out we have them in Kristiansund. In "the old days" Kristiansund did not have a fresh water source so the inhabitants built these amazing stone ditches to collect and carry the water from the hillsides above Kristiansund down to storage ponds in the city. We now get our fresh water from the mainland but the levadas and ponds are still here. They are part of a walking and nature area. On Sundays it seems as if everybody is out with their family and dog taking a stroll on the levada trail. Lilly loves to walk in the levada when they are running with water.
Sorry I haven't been posting but I have been very sick with fibromyalgia and now must go into the hospital for awhile. I don't know if they will have wifi,so I might not be able to post for about a week or more. I promise to come back and finish up Lilly's tour of Kristiansund just as soon as I can. Thanks for checking in!
I was pleasantly surprised to learn that Kristiansund hosts quite a few festivals. There is our Opera Festival with our famous oldest opera house in Norway. Then we have the NORDIC LIGHT FESTIVAL of PHOTOGRAPHY which is the biggest in Northern Europe. And we have our music festivals TAHITI and MAROKKO. The island of Innlandet is nicknamed Tahiti and the island of NORDLANDET is nicknamed MAROKKO,which is where the festivals get their names. Below is a drawing of Lilly at the Tahiti Festival.
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