A flat day.

Yes, we had car trouble, so far it has been a dream run with the car, after all, it was a brand new car. But even new cars can get a puncture and that is what happened to us. We had just come off the ferry from Halsa, Norway on the road E39 towards Averoy (where the Atlantic Road starts - [Google Atlantic Road Norway]) at a place called  Kanestrøm, just up the hill from the ferry drop off when we blew the back left tyre. We got back the 400 mtrs or so to the ferry car park and changed the tyre with the emergency wheel (not a full size wheel).

Thought it better to ring Peugeot Europe roadside support number to ascertain what I had to do next wrt the car. As it turns out, replacing the wheel was OK but I had to have the punctured tyre repaired by an official Peugeot Dealership. I  thought this is going to be fun as where we were seemed to be in a far tucked away corner of Norway with not much around. We pressed on with our 80kph emergency tyre hoping to get across the "Atlantic Road' and onto Molde, which we thought would be the largest town in the area. It would have been about 80K.

As it turns out, and quite by surprise, the town of Kristiansund (only about 40k) was a fairly large town and it had a Peugeot dealership. As it was Sunday, we found a place to stay for the night and we will get the tyre fixed on Monday morning. We were not planning on staying in Kritiansund, but it seems a nice town, very clean and picturesque.

This morning, we passed through Trondheim, which is one of Norway's better known places, again it was  a nice looking clean town, with only a few drunks heading home  about 9 am on Sunday morning. We had lunch at a nice little place called Valsoya, in honour of the Val's we know.

Here are today's selection of pics.

This is a pic I took a few days ago, but now Lightroom is working again, I cleaned it up and reposted.

More Barley (I am sure it is not wheat)

Trondheim Cathederal

A Trondheim doorway 

A Trondheim Manhole cover (they are different in every town)

A black car

More camperhomes

A place called Valsoya

A pleasant Lunch

More Views along the road (more water)

On the Ferry, blissfully ignorant of the events of the next 30 mins after this.

The Emergency wheel fitted

More pics along the long and winding road.

another big bridge (plus another dozen tunnels today)

Kristiansund (fortuitous locale of Peugeot dealer)

More Kristiansund (including their manhole covers)

Lastly, I had largely thought of Norway as a fairly civilised, albeit expensive (did I already cover that) society. However I have now cause to doubt this assumption. Tonight, when shopping at the "Kiwi" supermarket, we were told it is against Norwegian regulations to sell beer on a Sunday. This puts the good deeds of all those Norwegian peacekeepers that go to all the trouble spots of the world back about 10 years. No beer on a Sunday - ridiculous.

We had pasta for dinner with our own homemade pasta sauce (sans beer)

LB