Road Trip Norway – from Oslo to the Lofoten and on to Bergen
After a year and a half, the pictures of our road trip through Norway in summer 2020 are finally seeing the light of day: two months of parental leave, a van and a dream that reached as far as the Lofoten Islands. On the day Norway opened its borders after Corona, we took the ferry from Denmark, drove through Oslo and across the east of the country all the way up over the Arctic Circle.
A week on the Lofoten
We spent a week on the Lofoten Islands, among cliffs, mountains and quiet fjords. We slept in the van in beautiful spots, sometimes by the sea, sometimes by glaciers, sometimes in the middle of the wilderness.
The west coast and Bergen
The way back took us slowly along the west coast, past glaciers and fjords to Bergen. After my Mavic 2 had given up the ghost in Denmark, the little Mavic Mini stepped in. The image quality isn’t perfect, but it captured this trip from above.
Norway from the air
These aerial shots show a road trip right across Norway, from north to south. In detail the pixel mush may bother you, but on the website the mood of the trip still comes across – wild and imperfect.
The road disappears into the mist above the conifer forest – summer 2020, heading north.Left, red houses in a forest clearing; right, a boat at the jetty.A blue boat at the jetty in the brown water in front of the forest.Left, mist over the wooded slope; right, dark water along the forest shore.Low mist splits the conifer forest on the slope into islands.A winding road through pale moorland and islands of scrub.Left, green-brown bog; right, an ochre patch with a dark pool.A dark stream winds through pale moorland and low trees.Stream loops through pale scree and green islands.A track beside a dark watercourse in dense conifer forest.A blue glacier tongue between dark rock walls – sometimes we slept by a glacier.Crevassed glacier ice in front of snowy mountains.Crevasses and ridges in the pale glacier ice.Rugged rocky coast dropping into grey-green water.Our van beside a house with a turf roof and a boulder.A red house on the rocky coast beneath a grassy summit.The coast road between turquoise water and a steep green slope.The road at the foot of green coastal peaks beneath heavy clouds.Evening light on the peaks above a dark fjord.Left, golden peaks; right, a coast road in the evening light.A streak of sun on the dark sea beneath an orange blanket of cloud.Left, a pointed peak by the fjord; right, round fish pens with a boat.A steep rocky peak above the fjord – a week among cliffs, mountains and quiet fjords in the Lofoten.A small green rocky island in clear turquoise water.Patches of snow on rugged peaks above small mountain lakes.A mountain lake between rocky ridges, a pale track beside it.Shallow greenish water between green shores.Headlands and sharp peaks around a pale bay.Turquoise bays, small islands and a road along the coast.A sandy beach below a steep rocky peak.Left, bridges between green islands; right, a bridge towards a pointed peak.Dark water in front of a chain of rugged peaks.A village on the bay beneath snow-dusted peaks.The road across green meadows by the fjord, sharp peaks behind.A dark mountain lake in a green hollow beneath rugged peaks.Small lakes between grassy ridges and rocky spires.Left, clouds on the ridge with a small lake; right, mist over a pool.A waterfall plunges from the rock face, forest and a winding river below.Left, a river with a small bridge in the forest; right, river loops with sandbanks.Two of us on the rock in front of pines and a small mountain lake – two months of parental leave.A road hops across rocky islands, a red roof beside it.A motorboat draws its wake beside the island road.A green valley beneath a snow-dusted rocky summit.Hairpins on the steep slope above the gorge, a white car in the bends.Road, stream and wood-edged pools beside small huts.Several waterfalls tumbling over mossy rock steps.A glacier tongue ends at the dark rock face.Blue crevasses in the pale, heavily fissured ice.Left, glacier crevasses; right, the tongue between rock walls.Our van by the road, two boats at the jetty.Steep wooded slopes, a pale stream in the gorge.A boat in the fjord beneath a steep peak with a waterfall – on the way to Bergen.A straight road through moss, rock and rust-brown channels.Cracks in the mossy rock, dark wet furrows between them.Pale cliffs with forest along the top and a pebble beach.Grey sea all the way to the horizon – the journey ends, wild and imperfect.
