Norwegian Meal Plan

Yesterday we had a typical Norwegian day of meals!
Breakfast at 8:30; bread cheese scrambled eggs, tomato/cucumber/sweet peppers, strawberrries,
smoked salmon/herring/mackerel, brown cheese and jam and Coffee/juice

Lunch at 12:30 Thermos of coffee, slices of cake and slices of apple.
         We had hiked to the lighthouse on Eigeroy.  Then we went to town to see the Egersund church, and shopped for pottery and souvenirs.

Dinner (big meal): in a Chinese restaurant in Egersund around 4 p.m.; then soft-is (pronounced “soft-eece”) It’s soft ice cream, but much creamier than what we get at Dairy Queen!

Back home for coffee and more cake/candy at 6.

Warren helped Anders rake the hay (turn it over to dry) and then they went to check out Anders’s boat and went out toward the lighthouse to fish a little--Warren caught one!  I hiked out to the “whalestone” which ended up being a lot more of a walk than I thought.  When I got back, the guys were getting ready to watch fotbol and Astrid was making “supper” at 8:30 p.m. Supper was similar to breakfast with bread, slices of canned ham, some vegetables (canned peas and corn) and hot tea.  Thank goodness we did a lot of walking today!

A very nice day of hiking on Eigeroy and seeing more of Egersund.  Their son Andreas joined us for the boat excursion and watching fotbol. He is 25 and is still a student in Bergen; his summer job is working at Anders’ mining operation.  He lives in a separate house with his girlfriend Sara; she is in nursing school and concentrating on mid-wifery.

Map of Eigeroy; the lighthouse is on the bit of land furthest to the left
and we have walked around most of the "left-hand" arm of the island. 

Anders, Anna and Warren on the walk to the lighthouse.

Inside the Egersund church; my great-grandfather was baptized here, and it looks much the same as when he was alive.  Most of the existing church was built in the 1700s and some parts are from 1620s!
Many churches in Norway have a ship model hanging from the ceiling.

The Whale-stone

Not quite in the belly of the whale yet.

On Anders's boat

Anders's beautiful wooden boat!

Today, Astrid will drive us to Sogndal to meet another cousin Terje.  We will stay with him and his wife Alena there for 2 nights.  Then Saturday it’s back to Egersund to meet Tonnes, Sunday drive through Telemark and back to Oslo, and Monday fly back home.