Alesund Travel Blogs

After breakfast we headed south to Molde for some sightseeing. This little town is famous for its roses and the jazz festival. But in early june (with this cold weather too) you won't find lots of roses. Just the statue of the Lady of Roses downtown. Molde is a nice place located at the Moldefjord.…

Alesund es una ciudad sorprendente. Es un sueño de ciudad hecho realidad. A raiz de un gran incendio a principios del siglo XX, la ciudad quedo practicamente destruida. Parte de la ayuda internacional, en este caso de Alemania fue el envio de un grupo de arquitectos jóvenes, que pudieron poner en…

Cestou do Ålesundu, kde sme si chceli dať kebab, sme sa zastavili v akváriu. V Ålesunde sme sa márne snažili získať nejaké info o trajekte. V prístave už bolo zatvorené a dozvedeli sme sa, že trajekt do Bergenu ide o polnoci. Radšej sme zvolili alternatívu, že nepôjdeme trajektom, …

10 Days in Norway: Tromso, Lofoten, Bodo, Andalsnes, Alesund, Runde

Have you ever had such a big ice cream?

In the rainy morning we drove from our accommodation in Andalsnes to Alesund.   Later on we had lunch and went for a walk around the city of Alesund, where the modern cruise ship ‘Costa Algera’ called at the harbour.   Then the mission to buy a few souvenirs was quite an ef…

I never would have thought a cruise along the western coast of Norway would have been worthwile, but after my grandmother took my sister and I, I realized it was spectacular. The landscape had a harsh, rugged beauty and the near 24-hour sunlight within the arctic circle was really an experience. Bergen was the largest city in Norway (but has only 250,000 inhabitants). The hiking was just phenomenal - especially when we climbed on a glacier.

In the night of January 23, 1904, practically the whole town was destroyed by fire (difficult to imagine how people of town survived until the end of strong Norwegian winter in temporary shelters and barracks). Then town was restored from ash using stone, brick and mortar. As result all the center …

June 2004 one of my childhood friends married a norwegian girl in Ångdalsnæs. One of the beautiful places is the Troll wall and Troll Path (Troll veggen og Troll stien). The day after the wedding on the way back to Ålesund, we stopped and hiked. A beautiful place!