Day 2

Jason woke up from his fold-up bed and had breakfast with A&A at home. We had already packed our bags, so we loaded the car, assembled the bike racks on the roof, and locked on the bikes. There was a drizzle of rain, so we remembered to bring our coats. We also checked out the weather forecast, which was rain every day straight for 10 days in Norway, Denmark, and Germany! So, we named this blog wettrip on that day.

We started off around noon, and drove south along highway E18 on the west side of the Oslo fjord. First stop was in Tønsberg, the Oldest city of Norway. This is one of the few places Jason has video footage from. The most interesting part of the visit was maybe that we learned that Danish pilgrims went by this city on their way to Israel. Did they hold their maps up-side-down?

We continued to Stavern, a vacation city mainly consisting of a small harbour dotted with restaurants and wooden houses. Astrid's cousin Ingunn and her husband Dag (they married a week after we met them) met us at a superb seafood restaurant were they served shrimp, soups, and a fish and shrimp platter for us. Everything was great, especially their bread. After splitting the bill and actually buying some Euros from Ingunn and Dag, we drove on to Langesund, were our boat to Denmark left from.

The boat was not big, but it had room for an all-you-can eat buffet restaurant, an arcade, a disco, a lounge, a little tax-free shop, a mini-mart, and a few other things. It was OK for the 5-hour ride to Hirtshals in Denmark. Jason had the buffet, but wasn't all too excited. Anders had Astrid's chicken wings.

We arrived in Hirtshals a little after 1 AM, and went straight to the campgrounds to set up our tent for the first time and get some sleep. The city is very small, so it was not hard to find the place. The tent was easy to set up, and we fell asleep to the constant noise of waves braking at the North shore of Denmark.