We’ve spent many hours over the past couple of days driving through the soul-nourishing beauty of rural Norway.
We stayed last night at Røisheim, in a mountain valley about fifteen minutes from Lom, a rustic inn that apparently began as a post-station in the 1600s. It’s said that Ibsen and Grieg were also (repeat) guests at Røisheim, the buildings of which are all pre-modern.
We’ve passed through unspeakably gorgeous valleys. We took a brief peek, too, at Geiranger Fjord.
We crossed through some of the mountains of Jotunheim, the traditional area of the giants of Norse mythology:
And now we’re in the very close vicinity of the farm where my grandmother grew up.
Posted from Stardal, Norway
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