My Norwegian Easter Part I

First, read the previous post if you want to understand Norwegian Easter.

Now that your are up to date on Norwegian culture . . .

Tove and I left Wednesday morning to drive out to the island where she spent her early childhood.  Several years ago she bought the family home on Lille Aursøya, a little island that is part of an island archipelago called Mausund.  Mausund lies off the coast of Frøya.  Frøya is a large island located near the coast about 150 km south of Trondheim.  Tove and her family use the house as a summer vacation home.  It is a rugged little house that Tove has put a lot of time into repairing and maintaining.  While there are projects that need to get done, it is a cozy, structurally sound house on a barren hill on a little island in an area where only a few hundred people live.  In other words, it's a good place to "get away from it all".




Tove's Yellow Summer House


Before leaving we had to change her winter tires to summer tires.  It was a pleasure to drive the car with the summer tires on, as the winter tires rode like a Fred Flintstone car.  Summer tires on, we took off for Frøya to catch the ferry to Mausund



The ferry from Frøya to Mausund

 The ferry was fairly crowded with people headed to Mausund for the Easter break.  The trip from Trondheim to Frøya is beautiful -- along fjords, lakes, over mountains, under the sea in tunnels -- it is a great little trip.



On the ferry

 People get out of their cars and go below where there are TVs, coffee and waffles.  The trip takes 40 minutes.  You can see fish farms that are raising salmon and, they tell me, cod. 



Fish Farm

 Once we got to Mausund, we drove the short way over the bridge to Tove's island.  There is no road to her house, and no place to park, so we off-loaded everything at the bottom of the hill, then I drove the car over to cousin Ulf's house to park the car.  I then walked the 1/4 mile back to Tove's house and we took several trips to get the stuff up the hill and into the house.

Next Post:  Our friends arrive and we all have Easter fun.