Espedalen, Gudbrandsdalen, Norwegian holiday

After spending a few days in Oslo, I went for a one week holiday at a place called Espedalen, in the Gudbrandsdalen valley some 4 hours north of Oslo. There at a lake called Espedalsvannet, my parents had rented a cabin for 8 days, the cabin was really nice and authentic Norwegian built in 1937. We also had access to a rowing boat so that we could go fishing in the lake. The scenery in the area is really nice, and we did several hikes in the area, also to go fishing in some smaller lakes in the mountains.

One day we went to a place called Helvete, this is the Norwegian word for hell, so basically we went to Hell for a couple of hours to check out the amazing landscape created here 9000 years ago by the river that uses to flow through the valley.

As I mentioned earlier we also went fishing in some smaller lakes 2 hours hiking from where we stayed, so return in would be almost 15km hiking. We also got some fish, not a lot, but some nice trout that we steamed with white wine for dinner.

The cabin we rented for the week

Coffee in the making

My dad and myself going fishing

A Norwegian cow

A Norwegian barn

Norwegian porridge called rømmegrøt 

Rowing on the Espedalen lake

Now I'm back in Oslo again, gathering my belongings that are here and there. At least it's nice and warm in Oslo now, it's around 27 degrees and sunny, which is great for Norway.