fredag 7. august 2009

Back home after a very long and exhausting travel

From 20/7 - 29/7 we've been travelling almost trough whole Norway, 3 days up north and 3 days back home, with a short stop in Stokmarknes (Cassandra's home town) to get Tristan baptized. First I was considering to do the whole travel up north in 1 turn and just take a break to nap and eat but (gladly) we changed our minds and decided to split the travel into 3 stages.

The first stage was Oslo-Trondheim, about 50 Norwegian miles (500 km). This took us more than 8h (as expected) and we were dead tired and exhausted when we arrived at the hytte (cabin) that my parents, who travelled the same route but at their own pace, had rented. We went to bed pretty early (I think around 8 or 9) and started around 9:30 next morning towards Mo i Rana, another 8h travel. When we arrived there (my parents decided to stay one day in Trondheim to visit the city) we almost instantly went to bed again, even earlier. The last stage from Mo to Stokmarknes took us longest even though it's the shortest of the 3 stages. We were already pretty exhausted and Tristan was really not too happy to be all tied up for the 3rd day in a row in his bilstol (baby seat). We arrived pretty late, around 9 in the evening and didn't do much else but going to bed.

The next days were mostly filled with preparations for the dåp, buying stuff, carrying chairs and tables around, etc.
My parents took a long detour and arrived very late in the evening.

The weather wasn't on our side most of the time but on Saturday we took a boat trip to the Trollfjord, one of the smallest but nicest fjords around.

On 26/7 around 11 am the dåp finally started, a very touching ceremony. Tristan was clearly not impressed and slept most of the time.
On Monday we started to travel back, same stages backwards. This part of the travel went a bit better because we were more experienced now in what to do to keep Tristan happy and when to take breaks.

We arrived late on Wednesday but didn't have much time to relax. The very next day I got a small truck from bilutlei Bislet and with my parents help we moved to the rekehus (row house) that we rent now in Kolsås, near Oslo.

I'll add some pictures later.