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Hiking Rampestreken, Norway
Then he told him about Åndalsnes, a tiny settlement up in Romsdalen valley, surrounded by high mountains which were so beautiful that his mother had always said that that was where God had started when he was creating the world, and that He had spent so long on Romsdalen that the rest of the world had to be done posthaste to be finished by Sunday. Jo Nesbø, The Bat After enjoying the azure blue coast of Ålesund, Matt and I drove two hours east to a town in the center of Norway: Åndalsnes. High, tall, thickly-forested mountains surround the town, which sits down in the valley of the the Romsdal…
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Ålesund, Norway
Every city has a scent: Granada is honeysuckle and jasmine; Squamish is fir trees; Bergen is baked goods; and Alesund is a wood-burning fireplace.