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On the road

Beautiful sceneries and curious houses, bridges, and road signs often show up when driving. Unfortunately the urge to drive on tends to be too strong, therefore I'm making this page to give myself an extra reason to stop and shoot
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Entering Sunndal from Oppdal. The coat of arms is a drawing of Norwegian Wormwood – Artemisia norwegica.



 

Road through Oppdal towards Sunndal – in autumn.



 

This small village has a short name – Å. It's pronounced like 'a' in 'all' and means 'small river'.



 

Crazy bridge on Atlanterhavsvegen, "The Atlantic Road" from Averøya to Eide.



 

Atlanterhavsvegen, "The Atlantic Road", view from the top of the bridge shown by the previous picture.



 

The Skarnsund bridge is claimed to be the most beautiful one in Norway.



 

On the road to Kristiansund – the pontoon bridge across Bergsøysundet.



 

View towards Stryn from the old mountain road Grotli–Stryn.



 

View from the old Grotli–Stryn road on the previous picture, altitude about 1100 meters.



 

Eide, Sunnmøre, on the road Eidsdal–Geiranger.



 

Autumn 2003 – the first snow on the mountain tops. View towards Sunndalsøra.



 

View towards Sunndalsøra from the same site as the previous picture, but another year.



 

I don't know what that concrete structure going down into the river is – is your guess the same as mine?



 

On the highest point of the road between Sirdal and Lysebotn a large area is littered with "cairns".



 

The Sirdal–Lysebotn road descending to Lysebotn through 32 hairpin bends.



 

A reindeer buck on the road. This is rare, even domesticated reindeer tend to be shy.



 

A millennium monument on Kvernes, Averøya. 4 km distant the Gjemnessundet bridge.



 

Entering the administrative district of Rauma on the road Valldal–Trollstigen–Romsdal (Åndalsnes).



 

Trollstigen (the Troll Ladder) with Stig-fossen (= -waterfall) and the Stigfossen Bridge.



 

Isterdalen, the valley endig where Trollstigen begins.



 

On the pay road through Vengedalen (east of Åndalsnes). Romsdalshorn is straight ahead.



 

A rainy spring day on Route 666.



 

Låtefoss south of Odda in Hardanger.



 

Ferry on the Nærøyfjord at Gudvangen.



 

View of the valley Nærøydalen from the Stalheim Hotel.



 

Power lines at the road Øvre Årdal–Turtagrø.



 

Road rest area – Eide, Nordmøre.



 

The Mjosund bridge. Aure, north of Kristiansund.



 

The Atnbrufossen water power museum



 

The mountains Rondane and the painter Harald Sohlberg



 

Road Folldal–Atnabru, the mountain Høgronden (again).



 

Road Folldal–Hjerkin, the mountain Snøhetta.



 

Gloppedalen, a valley east of Stavanger. Gloppedals-urda, a really big scree or talus in the background.



 

Byrkjelo, in Sogn og Fjordane, south of Ålesund.



 

Crossroads in Austefjord, the mountain Sunndalsnibba (1415 m) in the background.



 

See the inside of Norway I. West entrance to Fjærlands-tunnelen above the east end of the Jølster Lake.



 

See the inside of Norway II. Bergs-tunnelen at the inner end of Fjærlandsfjorden.



 

See the inside of Norway III. Inside Lærdals-tunnelen – the world's longes road tunnel.



 

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Animal traffic signs

Animal traffic signs
(This small fauna now includes a twolegged species)

 

This page was changed 2008-02-21

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