Norway Coast Cruise - Molde & Atlantic Road (Norway) - March 18th 2010

We had made landfall but it was raining. The land was distinctly Ken Country, a bit like the Lake District & very attractive. I spent much of the morning on deck eyeing the scenery & taking photos, some abortive. Avis went to the gym & I chatted briefly to two fatties & their husbands. Up above the stem, the wind blasted one with water & I did not stay there long - 20 seconds. Molde, the 'City of Roses' is modern because of the 1916 fire & WWII.

Ugh, what a landfall!

Coming in to Molde

Nearly there

Older buildings in Molde

It was still raining when we got off the ship & onto our tour bus. The courier, who talked far too much, told us that they thought the winter was over, as the snow had gone & the flowers started to come up but then, as I had seen on the web-cam, they were well dumped upon again last week. The bus took us over the hill the town spreads up & through countryside with a lot of standing water. This was because the underlying soil was frozen & the water could not be soaked up. Eventually, we got to the Atlantic Road, which links islets but did not go far along it. With several others, I got out of the coach in the pouring rain to photo the most spectacular bridge & it took all the rest of the day to dry my goretex out.

Atlantic Bridge

Oh dear!

From Ergan at Bud

We were back just in time for dinner, after which there was a decidedly unfunny funny-man in the big Lounge on whom we soon walked out, whereupon Colin & I swapped out-of-copyright music between our laptops.