Day 4 - Roros

Røros – the timber town - old copper mining area

street repairs held up as some interesting geology discovered during the dig....

Kiwi supermarket - look out!  they're everywhere!!

the church keeps an eye on everyone!

Molly's Kafe does the Best Vaffles!

Molly's Kafe

Afternoon thunderstorm in Sweden maybe, but not in Roros

Idrettsparken Hotel, very comfortable

Inside the old stone Church

painted to look like marble, though

Modern sound equipment....

the rather large pipe organ up the back

very nice beer to go with pizza

olde themed restaurant where they make very good pizza

Another hot day in Norway – tho the weather is set to change because I took all my winter gear, excluding my rain jacket, to the post office and sent it on its way home again.  Sick of lugging it around!  Will probably regret it, but will get by!

I headed off to the Idrettsparken Hotel where I had reserved a room the night before.  Luckily my room was already available so I was able to unload Maggie and stagger upstairs with all my bags. 

Then off to town.  I had packed my socks, so first I needed to buy another pair and found some on special so was laughing.  Then I walked further up the hill and around into the suburbs, just to see what real life was like.  I went past the mining museum, not really interested in that – but could see the slag heaps on the edge of town. 

The old houses within the town are quite beautiful and one can feel the history soaked into the timber structures.  There were a lot of tourists around – surprise!!  It is basically a tourist town, but more popular in the winter months and Easter.  Now in this hot summer, sat around eating waffles and drinking coffee and sitting in the blazing sun.  I joined in the eating bit, but found a shady spot!  So yes – not being totally perfect all the time J  jam and cream on the melt-in-the mouth waffles today!

After being up and down the two main streets I went to the Info office to check on the ferry.  A suggestion of a lake cruise that is going in the general direction I had planned, seemed like something worthwhile to check.  The guy in the office wasn’t too helpful.  He didn’t know if the bus would take bikes… he didn’t know how the road to the ferry terminal (36km) was and he was definitely sure one couldn’t ride from Elgå to the Swedish border.  When I suggested that route 221 would take me across the border, he did a quite google maps check and agreed that it might…  so I came back to the hotel and asked the woman on reception to call the bus company to check.  After several calls to different numbers, she managed  get onto someone who said, if there was room it would be OK.  So an early start in the morning, to get there before the rest of the cycling community want to go along for the ride…      If it doesn’t pan out – all OK, I will just revert to Plan A and ride on toward the rising sun! (well, it will be truly risen by then!)

Soooo – another day in this beautiful country – it is such a “chocolate box cover” country….  And the people are nice – most speak English well – esp the young in the shops.  They are very friendly and they do understand the meaning of service…  so am loving this visit to Norway!