Hjorangfjorden

The boat stops in the night to let people on and off and is quite noisy when that happens but I like that it functions as a ferry.  Next year they are banning anything other than electric ships from the Fjords which limits it to the Norwegian cruise lines such as ours. It’s so quiet.  

The sea got a bit choppy around 6am so we stayed in bed and skipped breakfast.  It calmed right down as we slid into this stunning fjord.  We were taken ashore and walked round the small village of Ude led by a guide.  The oldest building was from the early 18th Century and many of the houses were roofed with grass, layered, see extra, on moss, earth stone and birch bark.  There is a small hydro-electric plant in the village that produces enough power for all the inhabitants along the fjord, only 38 in this village at the moment  but 150 in the summer months.  Altogether there are about 2000 households.   Electricity is so cheap that they leave their lights on all the time. 

We got back in time for V to nap and us to have tea. 

In the early evening we got off at Alesund which was known as little London in the war as people slipped over to Norway from the Shetlands.  It was raining quite heavily by the time we got back to the boat for dinner.