Tuesday, June 12, 2007




Cycling in Aalesund...it's Summer - although Summer here is quite erratic, like an old man's mind on a half-forgotten errand. We are at the epicenter of the fjords (forget New Zealand, THIS IS the real thing!), so there are just no bike trails in the real sense of it. There are "paths" which people take walking, with alarming levels of difficulty and most of them just plainly uncyclable. But ...



Here's the first try...



This is the map produced by the gps. As you can see in the graph of the altimeter, changes in altitude can be quite interesting.

the views are much more alarming than the drops of altitude or the rocky path. There is Sea Out There, mottled with little scattered islands. Vikings had to be vikings...not much chance to be anything else...





to be continued





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