Bergen-Norway

Getting here was a true adventure. We left the shiny clean and very friendly Ribe campsite early and after a tour around town and a re-supply of the larder (we've heard Norway is expensive) we hit the road. The flat landscape slowly giving way to rolling hills as we moved north.
But between us and Hirtshals was a must see, the bog man! This guy was murdered and tossed in a bog over 2000 years ago and has been preserved by it in a amazing way. The details on his body are startling.
We recovered from the haunting display with a walk through the surrounding forrest and some local exotic ice creams. Magnum cones and Daim cones.

4pm and we still had 200 clicks to our overnight stop. So we put a movie on for the the kids, and got on the motor-way. Dotty seems to love these flat northern roads and happily cruises at 120kph. Never mind that other cars are flying by with a 130kph speed limit. The traffic go thinner and thinner and we got closer to the northern tip of Denmark. The sun hanging low in the sky seemingly resisting its bedtime like a restless child.

At last we pulled into Hirtshals and after a long drive and a few wrong turns found our campsite..........closed for the season. With light fading fast we skipped out of down to the 2nd campsite hoping we wouldn't be camping on the docks overnight. It was open but empty. we checked in and to the kids delight the heated indoor pool was still open. Dinner was put on hold and a family dip had.

The sun rises late up here. So waking at dawn has become the norm. Beth and I washed dishes and packed up Dotty whilst the Jane and Flynn had a play at the campsite and petted a local cat who'd taken a shine to the scraps on offer from last nights dinner.

Packed and cleaned we piled into Dotty and made our way to the docks where our ferry to Norway waited, the Bergensfjord. We checked in and drove to the "camper-van" line. We were greeted with stares and lots of remarks from our fellow germanic travelers. Sometimes it feels like they are very pissed off with what we've done to the German's "peoples car".
We waited for an hour and I realized we were the only UK car getting on board and some of the very few speaking english.