Our last day on the road as tonight we are back in Stavanger. We
needed to be away fairly promptly as we had found a few places we would
like to visit on our way as well as needing to catch a couple of
ferries. We drove some way to Kvam/ Norheimsund to find the old ship
building museum. In the town, we couldn’t find anything, but we had a
good walk round and even stopped for coffee. We found a lovely craft
shop close by and spent some time looking at their stock. It turned out
that the boat building museum was further down the road, and so we drove
on and in no time we were turning into the car park. We were invited to
take a tour with the guide at midday, which was fine with us. She was
very informative and we saw some wonderful examples of the work they
carry out at the yard. Their pride and jot is the Mathilde, a sailing
ship that was completely renovated at the yard. But we were not able to
see her as she was away sailing that day. We did see the rope making
loft and tried our hand at making a length of rope. This you can see in
the slide show.
The yard also had a great cafe and they made us
delicious sandwiches for lunch. The people here recommended a pottery
just down the road, so off we went to find it. It was a bit off the
beaten track, and we quite like the pottery, but the highlight was the
flock of white turkeys in an adjoining field. These were not all happy
and we did witness some fisticuffs between a couple of them. Now we had a
long drive to get to the ferries as we headed for Stavanger after a
great tour of some of the best scenery in Norway.
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