Bridges, Tunnels and Ferries

On the way to Smogen, Sweden

Bridge to Puttgarden Island, Germany
The Border between Sweden and Norway

When I was younger, and our family would take a whole lot of road trips during the summer. Daddy would always tell me to count the bridges as they were indicators of how many mountains we've actually passed. (I think this was a plan to keep me awake for the ride while the rest of the family napped in the car!) And Flo and I did just that. We counted bridges. But we counted tunnels and ferries too which carried us over and through the mountains and lakes of Norway. Yes. We counted them. From the time we crossed from Strömstad,Sweden to Norway, we started counting connections. in from going up to Oslo and then to Lilehammer, and to the Gerainger Fjord and then down down down to Skie, Sogndal, Voss, Bergen, Haugesund, Stravanger, Tau and back again to Stravanger to head back to Hirtsals, Dennmark.

While Sweden and Dennmark are amzingly flat for the most part, Norway is riddled with mountains.
100 Kilometers in northern Norway could pretty much be a 6 hour curvy drive, a huge contrast from the straight road trip up western Dennmark and eastern Sweden and counting (or remembering the last number) was certainly entertaining me as I tried to keep awake while we traversed the Norwegian countryside. The grand total? 115 (most of them mountains and tunnels).

And these lovely passages were sweet reminders that we were indeed moving on to the next destination, and that they are in themselves grand events for the long journey.

Are you ready to enter the World's longest Car Tunnel?

Hold Your breath! Here we go!

4 Songs later, we still weren't out of the tunnel! And entering the ice age!

Here going through the 3rd Ice cave!

Almost out? Ganz nicht!