Norway: rugged, bracing, immovable. Realize: you're tiny, fragile, and temporary. Rock: a million years of pressure compacting what the ice river left behind.
After the ferry crossing from Helsingør to Helsingborg, and passing Elsinore (Hamlet's castle), we drove up the western Swedish coast to Oslo (6 hours). We spent the night in Oslo at the Hotel Ullevål Stadium where the Norwegian National football (soccer) teams play.
From Oslo, north by train to catch Hurtigruten back down along the western coast of Norway.
The ferry from Helsingør (Danish side) to Helsingborg (Swedish side) takes you past Kronborg Slot which was immoratlized by Shakespeare as Elsinore - Hamlet's castle.
Finse, Norway.
Village along the Nærøyfjord
200 miles from the Arctic Circle
Entrance to the Nærøyfjord near Flåm.
Nidaros Domkirke, Trondheim. 1070 AD. http://www.nidarosdomen.no/
1AM. Northern Norway
Northwest Coast 11pm