What a grey day
Trip Start
Jul 01, 2012
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Trip End
Jul 14, 2012
Ålesund, Møre og Romsdal, Norway
Tuesday, July 10, 2012
Up a little later than usual we head off into this hilly town for a walk round. The old wooden town was mainly destroyed by fire in 1904 and rebuilt fairly quickly thanks to donations from other countries.So most of the architecture is Art Deco in a Scandinavian vein called Jugendstil. The town is built on a series of islands connected by bridges and tunnels.
First stop was the town church which is surprisingly ornate for a Scandinavian church. Then a walk round the main canal area and across the bridge to the town park where there is a statue of Rollo a Viking who became Duke of Normandy and was a forebear of William the Conqueror.
We found free wifi in a park area on the quayside so caught up on email then back onboard for a lazy afternoon reading and dozing.
