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You will notice that when you sail out again this afternoon.
We have some areas where there is a road, but it's more the exception than the road really.
One problem is that it's very steep and some places is very much at risk also
because of all the avalanches that come down here during the winter
and spring months.
So here for instance at your left you can see one of the tunnels they have built
to protect drivers from the snow.
They know more or less where the avalanches used to come down
so they can build protection in the right spots.
So then it's possible to use this road all year round.
So for the most part it's more the exception than the rule
that there is a road along the pier.
Very much of the pier does not have any long-distance roads.
And after the problem is that there are some big challenges in this area.
So we also see here along this road that a lot of tunnels have been built
to protect drivers from the winter and spring months.
We are going to make a stop a little bit further on.
We are now driving along the shore of one of the two arms,
one of the two branches of the year in Fjord.
It splits a little bit further out here in two.
And this is the shortest one of the two branches called the Nurang's Fjord.
And just in front of you you can see where it ends.
It's a little village there of Öye.
We are going to stop a little bit further from here.
We are now driving along the Nurang's Fjord.
One of the two branches of the year.
It splits a little bit further out here in two.
And the Nurang's Fjord is the shortest of the two branches.
And we are driving to the end of it now.
Here in this bay used to come tourist ships.
Well, they started coming in the 1880s.
They came all the way up to the beginning of the Second World War.
Sometimes you could have a lot of ships in here.
Especially if Kaiser Wilhelm came, he would bring 17 ships with him.
And he used to come every summer.
But there were others also here.
And when they came to Öye,
there would be horses, carriages lined up
to wait for the passengers.
They would take them into the valley.
They did have a road through the valley.
Just here along the shore of the Fjord there was no road.
So that was quite a big business.
And in the 1890s there were four hotels in Öye.
Nowadays just one of the hotels is still there.
And that's the one we are going to visit.
This one was built in 1891.
There came tourists quite early here.
All from the 1880s.
It was open on both sides.
And there was a cruise ship.
It was very full of what Kaiser Wilhelm came from.
And he didn't have a lot of 17 ships with him when he came here in the 40s.
And he came here in the first year.
But there were also others.
Many others also came.
And right before the beginning of the Second World War
there was a significant tourism.
It meant that there could be as many as 70 horsemen.
But the horsemen were still waiting for the tourists.
And they took them into the valley.
I don't know if it was the way along the Fjord.
It was the way further into the valley.
So they had a nice location for the tourists.
And it was a very important activity for the building.
The hotel where we are going to stop
has been quite important here in the area.
Many members of the royal families of Europe
came here for their holidays.
There are now 27 rooms.
And there is of course a number on the door.
But also a name.
And the name refers to a person who has stayed here.
He has visited the hotel.
So that's quite interesting to see.
We are going to have a little meal now.
It's a vegetable soup with goat meat.
And we will also have the possibility
to have a look on the first and the second floor.
I do think that there are quite a lot of guests there now.
Also of course the rooms are closed
when there are people staying in the rooms.
If there is no one in the room
then the door will be open
and you can have a look inside.
But of course that varies from day to day.
It depends how many guests they have.
But you can anyway have a look outside
and see a little bit the atmosphere of the hotel.
We are going to stop here at the Union Järt.
There are a lot of people here.
There are also a lot of people in the room.
There are also people who have visited the hotel.
When there are no guests,
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So, we do not always manage to keep it open here at winter time. Last winter was quite good, we just had a few days when it was closed.
Other winters it can be a lot more, so it depends.
But when the road is open, it's possible to cross over to another fjord at Hellesult, and you can go on to Geiranger from there.
And from here you can also reach destinations like Oslo and Bergen.
So you can reach the rest of the world from here when the road is open.
So this road here can be winter time. Last winter it was just a few days ago. It has not snowed in the mountains, and snowfall, and that kind of things.
So it varies a bit over and over. But when the road is open, you can cross over to Hellesult and over to Geiranger.
So this road here can be out in the world, where it should be, Oslo and Bergen or other places.
We also had the first snow in the mountains now a few days ago, so you can see that a little further on.
But you can still see some of the glaciers beneath though.
And some of the glaciers on top of that. But you can see from Hellesult that the ice is pretty good below us.
We are now going up very high now. We are just up to about 300 meters where we are now.
The mountains surrounding us are up to about 1600 meters.
There are some farms up here as well. They are not always very easy to spot.
There are several reasons. One, of course, is that the old way of building consists of putting grass on the roof.
That makes them quite invisible in this kind of landscape.
But they are also built very close together and they are built in spots where it's not that likely that avalanches get hold of them.
That's the problem. You can't just build something anywhere here.
You must choose a safe spot.
If you have a look to your right, you can see the small houses of the Yrasetra summer farm.
This is also one of the places where they would take their cattle in the summer to have them graze here in the area.
You can also see the old road passing there.
To the right, you can see the Yrasetra. There are a lot of farms here.
The houses are very well-groomed here.
There are more grazes here.
It's like a way of building these grazes.
You could also see the old road passing by.
This is how far we get today. We are going to turn around here.
I can mention that the summer farms here were in use until 1958.
Especially Saturday evenings, first of all you should know that it was especially young girls that stayed at the summer farms and worked there during the summer months.
Saturday evening it was quite popular with young boys to come up here.
This is the spot we are now. I've heard that they used to have a lot of dancing there.
You can just imagine the summer nights, Saturday nights up here, what was going on.
The last year was 1958.
I've heard that it was quite popular for boys to come up here during the summer months.
There was a lot of dancing, music and so on.
We are going to make a little break.
We are going to stop here so you can have a little stroll if you like.
The coach will stay five minutes so you can have a little stop for a minute.
The summer farms here are quite popular with young boys to come up here during the summer months.
The summer farms here are quite popular with young boys to come up here during the summer months.
The summer farms here are quite popular with young boys to come up here during the summer months.
The summer farms here are quite popular with young boys to come up here during the summer months.
Once again you will see that the buildings are very close together.
What is interesting to see here is that there used to be one more building but it is not here anymore.
You see where it used to be. It is very close to the road but not very far from the other buildings either.
This one normally might survive for a couple of winters but then the avalanche would come and get it.
The farmer would rebuild it and some years later it was destroyed again and here it was built.
You can see it there in the front of the others.
We do have a time for just a very short stop.
You can see it there in the front of the building.
You can see it there in the front of the building.
In the old days, the farmer used to buy food in the hotels because he didn't have the money to buy food.
On your left you see there are some questions about that.
There is an avalanche coming down here every year.
There is quite a lot of snow and it is hard to melt all of it before winter counts once again.
It used to be quite convenient for the hotel to have it because in times when there were no freezers and no refrigerators,
of course it was more difficult to preserve food so they would use snow from their spot in the old days.
We are already down at the lake again. Not much water in this part of the river now.
You can see it is quite dry.
We are down at the lake again. It is quite dry now.
We are very lucky today because sometimes it can be windy here and then we don't really see very much.
We are lucky today because it is windy so we don't really see much.
The big rock again we will see on our right.
Maybe you noticed there was a description on it.
We will see it here once again on your right.
That was the name of a local viking.
There are many things to say about him.
They say that he founded Normandy in France.
They know about him in France.
In this connection, the important thing, I guess why they named the rock after him,
was that he was very big so when he sat on a horse, his feet would touch the ground.
We passed the rock.
The reason I bought the rock was because it was a viking from this area.
It was famous to travel to France and to the north of Normandy.
In this connection, I think he was very big so when he sat on a horse, his feet would touch the ground.
Once again, we are coming down to the village of Eyjab.
We are now in the village of Eyjab.
The Jönköld area is a part of the municipality of Elsta.
The municipality as a whole has got a little bit more than 10,000 inhabitants.
Not very big but still a few people of course.
Most of them live on the other side of the fjord and then a little bit further on as well.
This part of the municipality is not very densely populated.
People go to the centre of the municipality.
They have to cross to the other side of the fjord and then it's about half an hour drive on the other side.
There you will find most commodities in the modern world, even an airport.
There you can see once again on your left, you can see CW Patchel written there.
That's one of the mountain pioneers. How so we know Patchelstein?
Jönköld is a part of the municipality of Örsta.
Most of the residents of Örsta do not live here but on the other side of the fjord and a little further out there as well.
We have an airport. There is a hospital in the next village.
You can also do some studies here at university level actually.
One of the most important schools or colleges is the one for journalism.
Many of the journalists you see in Norwegian television, they have had their education here in this area.
Here in the municipality of Örsta, there is a airport near the municipality.
There is a media line there and a lot of journalists in NRK and others who have their education here.
There is a hotel for about 2000 kr. You can sleep here a night.
Without television and telephone or that kind of commodities.
We are talking a lot about avalanches today and just a little bit more than I won't mention it.
Or maybe I will mention it a couple of times more.
Here on your left you can see a little building with a peculiar roof.
You can see it is quite pointy.
This is of course the old port of Aja.
You can imagine a lot of people gathering there when the boat came in from Ålesin or whenever cruise ships came in.
So a place where people would gather.
But it was also a place very much at risk for avalanches.
Or maybe it was not so much when cruise ships came because they came in the summer.
But when the other boat from Ålesin would come all year round and people would gather there of course.
So it would be a disaster if the avalanche came down just exactly there when people were standing there.
The roof was trying to split the avalanche in two parts.
So on the way back we are driving through the little tunnels.
On your left you can see two palms a little bit further round.
A place called Sternes.
And they didn't get a road out there until the end of the 70's.
So before that they would have to row across the fjord.
But even nowadays I can't stop talking about avalanches.
Because this road sometimes is closed.
It's blocked by avalanches.
So they still have to go by boat sometimes to get to the other side even though they have the road there.
So on the other side we can see Gårdvarnes on Sternes.
They don't always help me in the winter because it's raining a lot today.
So it happens that they have to go by boat sometimes if it's blocked.
I've heard a story about when the children there went to school.
This is a story from the 50's.
So I was told by a man who went to school at Örken the 50's.
The two of his schoolmates, they came from Sternes, two brothers.
And then he remembers very well one morning.
When they were late for school.
They were late for the first lesson.
And the schoolmate, she was not very pleased.
And so one of the brothers said, very sorry but there was ice on the fjord today.
And my brother had to stay in the front of the boat and try to get a hole in the ice.
And I was rowing.
And it took quite a while, but really sorry.
So it's good that she said, well that's no excuse for being late.
So it was also a...
A man from Örken told me in the 50's
that he had to stay in Sternes, two brothers.
He came late for the first lesson.
And there was a door.
And one of the brothers said, well it was like an ice in the front, but he had to get a hole in the ice.
And rowed, but it came late.
And that's what I think the teachers at the time,
it was not a good excuse for being late for the first lesson.
And nowadays there are no schools left on this side of the fjord.
Every morning there is a school bus.
Picking up all the children.
Driving them out to the ferry key.
And then they will get on to the ferry.
And then it's walking distance from the other side to school.
So now there is no school left on this side of the fjord.
The two villages of Úrken och Öjas,
you can see them very far away.
Here we have a local cabana.
This is where we can go swimming in summer.
So how you don't look well by the person.
But anyway,
there is quite a lot of rivalry
through the years between Eirge and Ilge.
You can imagine if Eirge, all the
famous people,
and the important people came to visit them.
And Ilge, well I guess no one came really.
They were just local farmers.
So I don't know, maybe they felt
like a little bit better.
Eirge, maybe, I don't know.
But anyway, there was some rivalry.
But in 1928 they got electricity
at Ilge.
Not at Eirge, at Ilge.
So the people of Ilge,
they asked the people of Eirge,
they said we can share electricity with you.
Do you like to have some?
And they said thanks,
but no thanks.
We'll wait till we get our own electricity.
So in 1924
we got electricity
to Ilge.
And it was a rivalry
between Eirge and Ilge.
Eirge was the modana
that we visited in the big world
when Ilge was under construction.
So in 1924
when electricity came to Ilge
they asked the people of Eirge
if they want to share electricity with you.
And they said no thanks.
We didn't have any electricity
to try to build it.
We waited till we got our own.
So here we are.
I guess the name of the centre
of Ilge has been renamed.
Have you seen some signs
of downtown?
I guess that's the new official name
of the place.
You can see that the centre
of Ilge has been renamed.
What do the 50 people
who still live here
and what do they do?
Well, there are some jobs
available actually.
We have a very small grocery store.
And a couple of people
are working there.
It's the only grocery store
on this side of the fjord.
So if you forget
to buy milk
and
if you don't have this shop
it's really, really far away to go
to get it.
And they also have
some greenhouses here
that work.
It's a little bit between seasons now.
They've just finished off
the summer flowers for the gardens
and they're going to start new production.
There are some people working there
and then there is also
a fish farm
on dry land.
Of course there's water in the pipe
but it's on land.
And some people are working there
as well.
And some people are working
in the local land business
that is the only shop on this side
of the fjord.
So if you want to go down
far away to go and buy milk
and
fish farm
on land
and
there is also
a greenhouse.
And some people
produce some flower gardens
for the other seasons
and they also produce
some other produce.
On your left
you can see a stream coming down
from the mountain
and
there are a few houses over there now
which is in the shadow now.
But it's a little village called Skor.
There are only
two people living there permanently.
They have no road.
But the ferry
comes twice a day
on signal.
So on your left
you can see Skor.
There are a few buildings
on the other side of the fjord.
But there is a ferry
on the signal
on the other side of the fjord.
And further out
on this side of the fjord
there is also another little village
called Trondahl.
Some more people living there
and there are no roads.
The ferry comes
a couple of times a day
out there as well.
You don't even have to
to give the signal it comes
automatically.
So there are a few buildings
a little longer out there.
There are a few people living there
from Trondahl
and there are also
a couple of houses over there.
And there are a few houses over there
as well.
This is where
the ferry is
as you can see.
So from here you can go over to Skor
through the village you see on your left.
You can go to Sebe.
That's the biggest of the villages along the fjord.
And you can go to even two more
the Trondahl and the Standahl.
So if you come here
you can talk to many different places.
There are six of them here.
For the Sebe
or for the Standahl
and Trondahl.
And what you also can see quite clearly
from here is where the
ferry divides into two
branches.
So to arrive you can see
the longest branch
of the fjord
going all the way
into a village called Birge.
And then we have
our side
our branch
for the Norröngsfjord.
So here we see the other ferry
but it's called Storfjord.
You can't just change it with Storfjord in Geiraga.
But on one side
it's called Göringfjord
and it's also called Storfjord.
And it goes all the way into
Birge.
And it's a longer ferry
than the one we follow
in Norröngsfjord.
We're coming back to downtown Ithkena.
We're going to make a little stop.
Those of you who like
to do so
are welcome to walk down
to the pier again.
If you like to do so
of course you can stay on the coach as well.
It's up to you.
If you walk, it's about 10 minutes.
10 minutes walk.
So if you start walking now
it should be okay.
You will be done in time.
It's very easy.
It's the second road to the right.
It's not a metropolis.
I think you will find it.
Second road to the right.
Then you will
come straight down again.
10 minutes walk.
If not, we will
leave in 5 minutes
from here.
So if you're back on the coach
in 5 minutes
you will
be able to come with us
to the port again.
We will stop here in 5 minutes.
If you want to walk down
the second road
to the right
you can go down.
We will stand here in 5 minutes.
Those of you who like to follow
you can sit on it.
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