The smell of snow and torsk We headed north from Trondheim toward the Lofoten Islands. Can't make it in one go so we are stopping in Mo I Rana, which sounds like it should be in Tonga rather than northern Norway. The DK guide book notes that no one seems to know the origin of the name. My theory is that 7 centuries or so ago, Lothar, helmsman of a Viking longship came into land here a bit too fast. Lothar said to the captain, Motar, "Mo, I ran aground!" Over t...

Eric wouldn't take me to see the Museum which was the power plant making heavy water during WWII, the subject of a sabotage attack that is the basis for the film "the Heroes of Telemark" one of my old time favourites but he did take me to Lillehammer (originally with the thought of doing some snowshoeing, but unlike last year there wasn't any snow yet) where I desperately wanted to go in 1994 to the Winter Olympics. No wonder the Norwegians can ski so well; the ...

The Next Adventure After our week in Paris and week in Vannes we are moving on to the next big adventure which is driving the length of Norway. We left Vannes with a sense of leaving home having loved our flat and really enjoyed the city and surrounds. Had a mad driving day through Brittany to Belgium courtesy of a route approved by the Travel Master and Navigator but set by the Peugeot (known as Phoebe as her number plate starts FB) GPS and to the Ibis ho...