August 11th - Aurland, Norway

We left the village of Flam on a ferry that took us to the village of Aurland on the Aurland Fjord. Flam is the first of five fjord villages we will be visiting, with Aurland being the second. When we stepped off the ferry we walked through the quaint little village of Aurland to find our room which was not difficult considering the size of the village. Where we stayed was down near the water so the rest of the village was built on the hillside as you can see below. Everywhere we walked was up hill and all of the streets were built with switchbacks which gave us interesting and higher views as you'll see later.

The next two pictures are from the inside of the old house where they serve breakfast in the morning.  Notice in the next two pictures the wood or coal burning stoves that were used to heat the house once upon a time and the copper pots and serving dishes.

Just for comparison I took a picture of the breakfast served here and while it was a very good variety it was not as extensive as the one in the previous post.

Right beside our room was this old boat house.

This is from inside the church that is right behind the our room. This church is over eight hundred years old and what struck me as somewhat interesting is, if you look at the size of the arches for the windows, the windows themselves were just very narrow slivers.

The village built this small Lagoon to give the locals a place where they can actually have a beach that was protected from the waters in the fjord which apparently can get a little rough with wind sometimes. 

This was around the edge of the lagoon

It made a good place to take another anniversary picture.

I thought some of these rooftops were interesting.

A bunch of different views from walking up to the higher elevations.

You can see the lagoon in this picture from one of the streets we were on that was higher up.

Looking back into the Flam valley.

A very small but protected marina.

Looking back into the village of Flam. 

The silver looking horizontal line through the center of the picture is not a road on the other side, it is a utility line from the side of the road that we are on.

Here is a bus stop shelter with a sod roof.

This picture is taken from the street behind our room. Our room is at the top of the white steps that you see near the center of the picture. The rooms of the place where we stayed are made up of several different former houses. They seem to take every small piece of space they can and create a room for tourists to generate income to survive through the winter.

And for all my friends that like to barbecue, we have seen in several grocery stores Sweet Baby Ray's BBQ sauce. You'll notice the price here of 46.90 Norwegian Krona which is equivalent to about US$5.68.