Having stayed in the campsite, we had a leisurely start and headed off. There is another stave church we plan to visit. Halfway down the lake, I spot a traction engine and pulled over to have a look. It was another of Hydro’s legacies. It was also the point on the bank closest to where the ferry “Hydro” sank complete with the German stock pile of heavy water and the equipment for making heavy water that the Germans were taking back to Germany. It was sank by the sabatiers who planted a bomb on board. On the right of the lay by you can see the memorial to those who lost their lives.

The stave church we visited is the largest in Norway. Built or so Legend has it in three days by a troll. There was a lovely walk around to a viewpoint, which allowed me to get a good photo from a distance. As we did the walk we found a small village of old houses which was an open air museum some of the houses dated from the 1600s and were built around the same time that our vicars close House was built. The houses were built on top of logs, keeping them about four feet off the ground this was to stop rodents from being able to access the stores of food kept in the buildings for winter.

We had a lovely lunch down at the river in the car park of what happened to be a model aircraft flying club. It was interesting to see that someone had pitched their tent on the runway of the model aircraft club.

Further on, we found a walking route a few km up to view points. Well worth the slog up hill. And the very wet ground we had to walk through.

On the walk, we found a really big mushroom.

Moving on and it is about time to empty the Grey water. We head to a camper site on the outskirts of kongsburg, a free carpark with a empty station.

When we pulled in, a land rover pulled up alongside, and the lady waved to us. I was not sure exactly what was going on. We opened the window and said hello. Turns out they hadn’t seen a UK car in about 3 weeks, and they just wanted to say hello. It being a small world, they knew someone who worked at Wells and didn’t live that far away from Wells themselves.

The area near the stop had a weir not like any I had seen before it looked like saw teeth. Lovely sunny evening.