Waching daily Dec 1 2018

Day 18 ...

It is 7:33 am, I have just wake up.

This is the first time I sleep all night long until that time.

Normally the sun wakes me around 4am.

But now I have to woke up.

Normally I get up around 7am and get ready, but there I am half an hour later.

It does not matter, it does not matter.

I still have a lot of roads to ride today so ...

We have to go.

I eat a bit and we go.

You have probably heard of the expression '' tan like an inhabiting ''. In fact you probably dont because it's a french Canadian expression. :) Hello Jan from the Netherland BTW :)

I use another tanning technique.

I tan like a cyclist.

The tanning technique for cyclists consists to tan only from

where the bike shorts stop to the socks.

Right there.

Now I am watching the journey that I'm going to do today.

It should be a lot better than yesterday, still a lot of elevation.

Strava tells me 1600M elevation, but ...

I doubt.

Well I leave from here.

I am at the small point there and my path is the Red line...

And if we look down with the vertical drop.

At the moment I am at 800 meters in elevation and I will go up to 1250 meters.

With some up and down.

And from km 53 I will go down for 35km up to 28 meters in elevation.

I will be at the level of a river.

Then I'm going up a little bit here and thats will be the finish line of the day.

So about 120km for today.

With a small climb on 53km and after I go down for 35km.

It should not be so bad.

But then I really need to go because it is 9 o'clock.

Go!

Well, 9:30h, it's really time for me to leave, I think it's the morning that I will have

left the later and that will not be my smallest day.

This is where I slept, super cool place.

It's a...

I think he told me it was a house of ...

In the old days it was rich people's house with servants and everything and

the section that serves as a hotel today was the servants place.

Yeah, anyway so let's go because the sunset is late, but it still set anyway.

So if I want to come to a place with an open reception well I would have to go.

Finally my slight rise is not so light, but it's so much better than yesterday, but ...

I'm in one of the most relaxed part I cycled since this morning and it still climby.

But it's beautiful, oh yes it's beautiful.

It is really beautiful!

It is quite special the change of relief.

I want to say...

10km ago, I was down there, it looked more like a type of fjord with the very quiet river, the big mountains.

There I go up and ...

A train.

There I go up and I arrive in regions like this here, it's like being in the Far North.

In fact it is true that we are still quite high on the map.

There I start to be high also in elevation, but hey not so much, I'm about at 900m,

maybe 1000.

I must also talk about one thing.

The Norwegians driving from the beginning it is exemplary.

I have never ever felt in danger here.

There is a single car that has passed close and it had a Austria license plate.

People are waiting behind me, even the big trucks, they wait for it to be there

more cars on the other side and after that they change lanes completely and

there they are slowly passing by.

It's incredible.

It's like in Japan, it's the same as in Japan.

I doubted a bit of my route when I decided to go through the land

to go from Oslo to Bergen.

Because I could have too, ride all the coast and stay on the edge of the sea, but ...

But here I do not doubt it is ...

In factI do not doubt anymore, it was a great idea.

Of course it's a lot of hills, but it does not matter.

It's really the worst roads that are the most beautiful.

That's the kind of sign I do not like to see, I do not understand.

That said, close due to landslide.

And there is a little sign that says no bike.

And there is a bike.

Closed due to landslide.

It's because I do not really have a choice to go through there.

There is no other way.

So, I'll go there.

I do not understand.

I do not understand.

I hope I will not understand.

Ahhh !!!, Looks like I'm in a tourist spot.

There are plenty of Chinese who will come take pictures.

The other thing I notice here is that all along the way, they were installing poles like this.

That's made to put a camera on so that when we go cycling we can film ourselves.

It's cool huh!

No, I think it's more for the snow.

In winter here there must be a lot of snow.

It must be so driving people can still know where the road is.

Hello.

'' She speaks Chinese ''

'' They speak Chinese ''

'' I'm making internationally recognizable sound ''

They speak Chinese.

-Thank you.

Ah, the Chinese and there photos.

-Hello!

Hey !!!! Hey !!

Phew, it's really colder here.

It is not for nothing that there is snow, but I think with that melting snow

the water is really cold, it gives off an incredible coldness.

The sun is as strong as usual, but just because it's cool, I'm really good.

Ah! Wow!

My drone is supposedly always defective, but I think I'll try it anyway in case it works.

No, but it's beautiful it's incredible.

I do not know if it's blue, but I see the water blue.

But a colorblind blue.

It's sick.

It is so much beautiful.

It's crazy, I feel like I'm in the North Pole.

We are in May, we are in May, but almost in June.

It's cool, there's a lot of snow and yesterday It was deadly hot, hot.

And I think it's still a day like that where was I yesterday.

It must be completely crazy in the Big Northern Norway.

At the moment I am at 1250M in altitude so I should have finished getting up, if

I well remember there was a section that was a little flat and after that it goes down for 35km.

If the road is not blocked, of course.

I hope because the sign I saw earlier, I have the impression that it did say no bike

nor pedestrians, but only when the barrier is closed.

That does mean nobody, because he there was a landslide.

I hope.

It can not be blocked because that it is the only road that continues

until Ulvik and all cars pass.

They would have put a clearer display, I think.

I hope.

Ah it's crazy the temperature, the sun is hot, there are drafts of hot air but

I am in a cooler.

So it's hot, it's cold, it's hot, it's cold.

Phew !!

There I was good, now it's cold.

It's crazy!

It's crazy the landscape.

I did not expect that much from Norway.

I mean that when we look at Norway pictures we see Fjord, and one in

particular, or two and that's what we see.

That's why I like visiting a country by moving a little bit anywhere on

bike, randomly, we come across place like that we had no idea that

it could look like that and it's really beautiful.

I mean, yes I would like that too see where they take

the super photo, but there is no organized trip bringing here I think.

It's crazy.

I am still stuck with foot problems.

There he just let me go.

It had been a few days since he started to have problem, but here it's dead.

It's dead he does not hold the bike anymore.

So I have to find something to lay it on.

Well that's it, it's here that it starts 35km downhill.

I am at 1300 meters according to my watch and I'm going down pretty well to 0.

Haha !! Fortunate? Yes

Lucky yes, but I drooled so much the last days to climb up here.

In fact I left from 0 to go here.

So I deserve it.

I really deserve it.

Ah!

But before going back down, a little beef Jerky with cachous looking at the landscape

in the sun and there it is not even cold.

It will be really nice to go down.

It's truly pleasent.

No physical effort, a lot of wind by con.

There is a lot of wind, and of course the wind direction is my face.

It goes down a little less quickly.

There is a little cold, but it's going to be less and less worse by going down.

I think I have more wind because I am high and then it is certain it is colder up.

Ah ah ah ah!!!! It's crazy, it's the most beautiful descent of my life.

It's sick!

Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah ...

I think that's what the sign meant earlier.

There is a tunnel that has a peculiarity to go down in the earth,

in the mountain and there is the way there and that seam to be the one that is closed.

It says about one kilometer, 200M ago.

If I go down 800M, it's possible that it might be closed.

I can try it, otherwise I go back there and I do not care about the sign.

Hi!

-Are you gonna bike down?

I do not know.

-No?

Do you know if it's closed?

-It is closed

It's closed.

- But, it is not... It is many stones and everything

Okay

-And further down a part of the road is gone.

So my way is the tunnel.

-Yes that's not better.

-Thats less safe if you prefer it.

Okay.

-So I would go down, but slowly OK.

Yes OK.

Be careful! Goodbye!

I thought it was going to go faster the part I was going down, but finally ...

I think it's going to had be as long.

Because it's not that it's really beautiful there, but ...

And it's like that on both sides wow!

That one I had not see it coming.

But that's because I do not really have the choice there is no other way.

There is no other way.

So I do not have a choice.

Well I just saw that there may be a solution here it's just not clear

and I do not know what that means.

I hope it will go back on my way.

But that, I know what it means.

It is a very very beautiful road by cons.

Very very beautiful.

I just do not know if it's going back to my route.

Well, well, in the tunnel, my path is closed here.

I have just traveled two kilometers so far so I will redo 2km it will be 4km

and I'm finally going to take the tunnel that is forbidden to bike.

At least I'm going to have tried, there's no other choice.

There is no other choice.

It's done, I crossed it.

Completely stupid, right there, this is the road that I took earlier that ended there, but it is barred.

That means they have planned a way for pedestrians and cyclists, but there it is closed.

So how are we supposed to do it?

Well, as I just did.

It's a 2.5km tunnel, let's say the first kilometer there was no one passing.

There was not so much traffic, but at one point I have a big truck that have

arrived behind me and he slowed down to my speed at least 30M behind me.

Just to not give any pressure, to to slow down the traffic, for my safety and

he followed me like that until the end of the tunnel.

The Norwegians are an exemplary people on the road.

Really!

I must say that when I put every chance on my side I turned on all

my lights and I was very visible.

It is certain that a cyclist who pass there without lights it is not brilliant.

First convenience store I see since this morning, so I stopped to eat something

and again well the only choice is hot dog and burgers.

So since it's the only thing I see since this morning and that it my be

like that for a while, I took a hot dog.

That one the sausage is rolled up with bacon.

It's pretty piggy.

It tastes the hot dog.

It's just 49 crowns.

I am like in a village.

I still have 32km ride.

18:34.

I think I will do it.

I could probably stop here but I think I will ride it.

It would be a good time to stop too.

I do not know if I see something in the way I will maybe stop by because

I think that tomorrow I had 152km to ride to get to Bergen but I'm going

to do them in two days.

So it could also be divisible.

At first my plan when I decided to make a second bike trip was to cross the United Kingdoms.

But my girlfriend forbade me because she would like us to see Scotland together.

So I thought I would go to Norway.

And looking at the map I thought there were many, many regions that ...

Thank you!

There are many regions that are huge with nothing, I mean without a village in between.

So thinking about Japan, in the Japanese alps while I was so lonely

alone with nobody and that scared me a bit.

So I told myself that I was going to come make that journey, and

that if I felt it well, I could come back another time, do Norway, all of it.

And when I see the landscape here I really want to do it.

I really want to do it it's so, so beautiful.

We can say that I kept the dessert for the end.

That's the easy way I could have take to save a good detour, it's

a tunnel of almost 8km and he goes where am I going to go tomorrow?

But I have to do the outline is a detour of about 30km.

But it does not matter it will be super nice.

I'm going tonight to Ulvik.

Let's go. it's over there.

It's being close, that's Ulvik.

This is where I hope to spend the night.

Aye aye aye, I found a place to sleep.

The most expensive since the beginning, 790 crowns.

It's not so bad the first thing that he proposed to me it was 1300 crowns

when I asked him the cheapest he had.

And I knew he had something cheaper because I had seen it on Booking,

that's why I came here.

And finally it's small cabins on the other side there.

As long I have a bed and wi-fi, it's fine.

But it's expensive to sleep.

But before I'm going to do a detour to the convenience store, it may be closed,

but I will still try.

I'd like that to pick up something to eat.

No, no luck, it's closed.

It is still 21:30.

When I talk like that it does not seem because it's clear, but I still have one

fruit salad and granola bars.

Ah, it's sick, everything is closed.

And I'm not hungry enough to... Well at the hotel it was crazy.

Their meal was something like 350 to 400 crowns.

It's stupid.

Well...

Fruit salad.

Good! It's ok, I have a bed, I have wi-fi.

But...

I always said that the moar expensive rooms that I had sleep in were the least luxurious.

It's ok, but it's the most expensive I paid and it is by far the least cool.

It is all I have.

Last night for 3/4 of the price I had shower in the room, I had a super comfortable bed.

It's ok, but it's warm!

But at least there is air conditioning that I just plugged in.

I guess it'll cool down at one point given, the sun to plumb on it

all day and there it is hot.

Ah and I just found the problem with my bicycle.

Foot in fact.

That's what's broken here.

The little guy here.

There is a small piece of plastic that clip, which makes the foot longer or shorter.

And there, as there is a small piece of plastic which is broken well it does not work anymore.

So I'm going to put on some electrical tape and it's going to solve the problem.

We fix everything with tape.

Okay, so that's what it is.

I will see where I am going tomorrow.

I still have about 150km to go before arriving in Bergen, and there is a lot of elevation if

I'm not mistaken then I think I I'll divide it in two.

I'm going to look at the map where is it I can find myself an affordable place to

sleep and I'll stop there tomorrow.

I'm going to ride more slowly because it's really beautiful here it's amazing.

Okay, so see you tomorrow!

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