In And Around Strandvik Norway

One week is over and the views are only getting better.  We are working and helping others; hiking the world one country and one step at a time.  Here are just a few examples.

These lillies bloomed just after we arrived.  This is just one of several koi ponds Charly and Kirsten have on their property.  Notice the wild strawberries!

 Working on a foundation getting ready to add a room onto the house

Ahhh, at last!  We found coffee!  There is one small cafe in

town, 2 kilometers away that has "illy" coffee and wonderful apple cake.  

Patricia from Uruguay owns the cafe.  She is only open on Thursday through Sunday from 2p.m - 8p.m.  When we told her we wished she was open in the morning for coffee, she told us to let her know when we would like to come and she would open the cafe for us.  We took her up on her offer.  Such a sweet lady!  Charly told us a local Norwegian man went to Uruguay on vacation where he met and married Patricia.  They moved back to Norway and had 2 sons.

Wonderful views from the cafe also!

We took a 10 mile hike Sunday afternoon and ended up back at the cafe for lunch.

We had califlower soup and rosemary flatbread

Here are some pictures from our hike to the end of the fjord

We stopped for a break at a park bench to take in the views

 Not one of these sites we experienced happened by chance.  God lives and we are experiencing His creation, and the knowledge he gave people to create beautiful things.

 Quite a hike!  We started from Charly and Kirsten's house and walked to the end of the fjord and back (10 miles).

On Monday, we drove Kirsten to work and then Charly took us on a drive around the fjords.  Incredible views all around.

This was an inland lake we drove around

Beautiful reflections in the water

 We went to the gardens of one of the first Prime Ministers of Norway.  Below is the 2nd largest Monkey Tree in Norway

We came across these ladies working in the garden and they needed help digging up a rock in the flower bed.  Local ladies from the village volunteer to work in the garden to keep it looking nice.  These ladies were 80+ years old.

 We stopped at a boat museum where they still hand make these small wooden boats

We just missed the ferry to go back across the fjord so we took a little walk around the marina

 On the ferry crossing the fjord

 David doing what he does best!  There are many things needing work on Charly and Kirsten's car so David fixed what he could.

On Tuesday, David and Charly worked on the house project so Linda went for a walk and found some blackberries to pick

This is a sign at the end of the fjord, pretty much at a farm that says "Sentrum" (meaning City Center).  We like these kind of cities!

 Tuesday evening Charly took us out to look for blueberries and came upon an old barn in the fields.

 We found some blueberries!  We also found these small red berries they call "lingonberries".  We googled them and I guess we have them in the U.S. called partridgeberries.  They are in the family of cranberries.

Still having a great time.  We only have 4 days left here and then head to Iceland for one month.  We'll post one more time before we go.