Starting where I left off It’s now the morning of Sun
Aug.17/14. A beautiful ,Sunny clear quiet morning. And since we didn't have to
return the rental car until after 10 we had a leisurely breakfast and then all piled into the rental car
and went to town. The road was empty! Not that it made much difference because
you can’t speed anyway, did I mention narrow roads and hidden speed cameras?
There were a couple of things I wanted to do and see and the others were not particularly
interested in so I got dropped off at the Cemetery with a promise to meet at
the tourist office later when it opened. If I haven’t mentioned it all ready in
a previous post Norway is closed on
Sundays. So to actually find something that is open is a rare treat and not to
be sneezed at! Or spoken of loudly in case the powers to be hear and shut it
down so mums the word!
So back to the cemetery.
I went to the war graves sections, British(including some
Canadians),French, Polish and Germans. The striking thing was the age
differences. The Germans were mostly in their 30’s and some 40 years old. While
the rest were in their early 20’s and sometimes teenagers ( I have boots older
than that) Most were sailors some aircrew and some army. A sobering quiet well-tended
place.
Flip joined me there
after dropping off the rental car and we walked to the Tourist Office that of
course was drum roll trumpets sounding open!! Received(big word for got)
further information on what was open on Sundays. First thing mentioned was church go figure on
Sunday. Now just to confuse things Lordag(Lords day) is actually Saturday and
Sunday is Sondag(the day the sun is supposed to come out .Rarely happens so a
special day) Monday is mandag(named after half of us)Tuesday is tirsdag(named after
the god Tir) onsdag er Wednesday name after Odin not wedding day as you all
thought) Thursday er torsdag after the Big hammer god Thor) fredag(after Frey(r)
the god of virility prosperity and fun)is Friday which just happens to be most
paydays and the start of fun days you pick what kind of fun! Which brings us to
lordag. Right back where we started and you have all had a lesson in Norwegian and
didn’t even know it. Boy I’m good.
Completely lost my train of thought! Though living with
Sally (who I love dearly by the way)it’s generally totally confused anyway. We
all left the tourist office much better informed then when we went in and sat
outside and had coffee and a sandwich then walked up the main street. Have I
mentioned that walking in Norway is always up hill hence walking up the street
except going the other way which is down the street or never mind you can
figure it out. We all went to the Narvik war museum the girls spent about 10
minutes and then went off to do Girl things while Flip and I had a fascinating time
and got chased out when the museum closed! We all met later and Flip and Ank
went back to the boat well Sally and I stayed behind. We then tried to get the
LAST BUS back to the boat. We waited for an hour at the wrong stop. I was not
happy! We started to walk thankfully downhill this time. We walked and we
walked and the we walked some more and no matter what Sally tells you I did not
whine. As we were walking down the sunny side of the street in Narvik not Laredo a bil (car) blew it’s horn at us! We were on
the sidewalk even! It was our friend Flip with a total stranger who happened to
have a bil come to rescue us. Not that we needed rescuing mind. I reluctantly accepted the ride and we
all made it back to the marina safely So ends part two except for pictures of course so here are a few.
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