Miles walked: 6.3
Cost: 300
Rain. Somewhat driving rain and we decided to leave the forest and walk on the other side of the river on a road only used by tractors. We walked fast, it was cold. The river is still lovely and contains salmon! We keep hearing that it’s very expensive to fish and you need to be wealthy, but we’re not really sure about this.
When we got to Voll, we saw a fellow pilgrim speaking to a man. Laura and Carolyn thought he might be offering us a ride (remember, it was RAINING). But instead he offered to show us the local church called Rennebu. The church was quite interesting in that it was designed as the trinity, with three wings off the center. One wing had the altar and the pulpit, while the others contained pews. The church is one of four in Norway designed this way and it was built in 1672.
We spent a long time talking about the symbolism in the church. Some of the items in the church come from an earlier church that burned down...circa 1100.
Next stop, the bus stop! We caught the 14:12 bus to A. There we went to the community cafe. Laura was looking for a hot solstice party, but alas it was to be the following night and we would be long gone at that point. I of course took advantage of the situation and purchased a waffle with creme fraiche and strawberry jam...yum.
We got our groceries...after spending what seemed like hours deliberating over what we needed to make pea soup. The dried beans in Norway are nonexistent except for whole green peas and whole yellow peas. It seems that the pea soup our mothers made was not authentic....we had split pea soup, but Norway peas are whole and have the skins.
We walked to our hostel...up and up, per usual and put together our soup...it took two hours and made far less soup than a pound of split peas in the states would make. But we got more fiber, yes?
Laura made a salad of dandelion greens which was very healthy!
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