Friday, July 7th, 2006
After a good night sleep a shower and a good breakfast, I loaded the
bike again and, Kurt and I left Kristiansand to drive a nice coastal
road to the East. I wanted to drive to Oslo today and from Oslo, take
the E6 North.
Changing money at the bank
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On our way East, we visited a bank in a small village, so I could
change some Euro's for Norwegian Kronen.
Then we drove on to a bike shop that is specialised in GoldWings.
Kurt knows the owner of the shop so we had a chat, a cola and looked
at al the
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beautiful GoldWings, trailers and chrome accesoires (safety chrome ;-).
I left my tent at the bikeshop because my BMW was feeling topheavy with
the tent on the back and not very stable. I miss the big sidecases and topcase
of my old GoldWing :-(
I could put my tent AND everything else in the cases.
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At the GoldWing shop
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The name of the bikeshop is "Lillerolfs Krambod" and the address is
Jon Skjeiesvei 1, 4823 Nedenes in Norway. They have a
website and I was asked to mention that they have also GoldWings for rent.
Then we drove on on some beautiful coastal roads and finaly stopped in
a small harbour. From here on I would be on my own. Kurt went back home
on his GoldWing and I drove further to the East to Oslo on the E18.
A beautiful small harbour
When we stopped at a HydraTexaco gasstation, Kurt bought me a coffeemug.
In Norway, if you buy a special coffeemug at some gasstations, like the
HydroTexaco, you can fill it with fresh coffee the whole year, at every
gasstation of that company. Great, free coffee for the rest of my stay
here in Norway.
Toilet building at a resting place
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From Oslo I took the E6 North. For people like Kurt this is a boring
highway but for me, used to the very flat, straight and crowded Dutch roads,
it was a wonderful scenery road.
The resting places are also very good. Plenty of places to
stop and often with picknick tables and a clean toilet.
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The scenery is wonderful. Often there is a river or a lake beside the road
and the parkings and resting paces are often next to such a lake or river.
Views along the E6 from Oslo to Lillehammer
At half past eight in the evening, after a very nice ride, I stopped in
Hammer, a town, +/- 35 km South of Lillehammer. After asking some people
I finaly found a good hotel.
The Scandic hotel in Hammer
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I got a room and after unpacking the bike, I went to the Internet PC to
do some e-mail and update my weblog.
Then I took a shower, watched a little TV (BBC world) and went to bed.
I have been lucky with the weather. In Germany and Danmark it was very warm but
here it is a nice 20 degree Celcius so perfect riding weather.
Also very nice here up North is the long days. The more North you come, the
longer the days are in summer so you don't have to worry about riding in the
dark.
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