Anderson Family Big Holiday Adventure: Alesund 6th May

Alesund 6^th May Day 20 of 91

We docked at 7am and when Colin and I went up on deck 10 for our walk and jog on the running track at separate times just in case you were wondering where Amy was! We both agreed this wasn’t the prettiest of stops. Our first day of rain too since leaving the Isle of Man.

Views over to the other islands surrounding us at Alesund

The main part of the town where Colin and I are heading once Amy is dropped off at kid’s club. The white building on the top of the hill is one of the tourist attractions but is up a steep set of steps that is where we are heading later.

Looking over the rest of the port, across the rest of Alesund and other islands behind.

Amy decided as it was raining and there wasn’t much for her to do in the town she would stay on the ship and go to kid’s club. She loves going to kid’s club.

On dry dock at Alesund

So the history goes that the town was burnt down and rebuilt into an Art Deco city. There were a few pretty buildings around but not many?!

We managed to find a hotel offering a deal if you bought a coffee you got free Wifi, bargain!! And what a fab view at the same time J

Colin in charge of checking the emails on the ipad and I am blogging!!

Our good deal hotel!!

Certainly a fishing city if this is one of the local shops on the street!

Very pretty street but the city is hilly!

Beautiful hotel just shame about the roadworks outside

Well this is it the start of the hill to climb to that white building offering panoramic views over the city

418 steps but the steps are cut out of the rock, uneven and because of the rain they are slippery too!

Rock steps, wooden steps and some concrete steps they did put a warning at the start saying the steps were uneven!!

3266 I also like setting a challenge for Colin when he has the camera ha ha!! So today was to get a picture like I have the cruise ship in my hand!! He did a really good job, well done Col xxx

Climbing higher still!!!

View over the city from the top, woop woop we have made it J If you see where the fastcraft is heading into the small harbour the white hotel on the edge of the water on the left of the small harbour was our free Wifi hotel and that was the full view that we were looking onto whilst doing our blogging!

Closer up view of the hotel, the white building on the left with the windows right on the edge of the small harbour, beautiful setting

We have just read there is a subsea tunnel underneath this space of sea in the photo from Alesund to Ellingsoy a total of 7.700m approximately 10 minute drive.

Looking down, eeek!!

Instead of going down the slippery steps we decided to take a forest walk back down a much longer way but it is only the two of us so we’ll enjoy the exercise! And here we are finding a digger along the way, trying to break into it but there are no tyres on the digger so I wouldn’t get very far at all!!!

We were supposed to come to dams but we were expecting a bit more than that little piece of water behind me surely ?!?!?!?

Yes it is still raining but it’s not that heavy so it is okay to walk in.

The forest we are walking through and the city below us, missing my jazz hands partner!

Now here I am messing about with the camera again!! So the camera is on the bench and we clamber down in amongst the trees to get this picture. But we are messing about and Colin spots an old man walking through the forest too who looks at us like we are crazy loons, well he isn’t far wrong but Colin is telling him that there is a camera on the bench but we don’t know Norwegian and he doesn’t know English!! Ha Ha!!

This is where I thought I would put Colin in a head lock but you can see Colin has spotted the man!

Hilarious!!!!

Colin scuttling off in a hurry hee hee!!!

So when we come out of the forest we are right in the middle of a residential area?!

A suburb called Fjelltun not sure where the Cuba came from?

Going downhill now!

We are walking down the hill when we come across this very modern glass cube for a house which is glass but has blinds all the way round in the middle of some old looking houses, weird!

This picture shows how high up we were but this wasn’t the way we came down we came a much longer way! Good exercise and trying to burn off all the delicious food we have been eating!!

We went back on the ship for late lunch I’m sure they have covered for every request of sauce you can think of don’t you think?!?!?!

How very British Colly Cup of tea with Scone and Strawberry Jam

Here we are we’ve picked Amy up at 4.50pm. Amy had an absolute ball with the other children and teachers all day! The teachers took the children for lunch too! The octopus is a prize for second place for getting the most answers correct on countries and flags of the world. Amy was teaching them about the Isle of Man!

Amy is now keen to go back to the Pyjama party at 7pm as it is movie night too!!