Summercruise 2020 - prologue - commuting

June 27th - 28th 2020 Sørumsand (train) - Trondheim - Brekstad

 

To reduce the risk of spreading of the Covid19 disease a work from home if you can order was in effect in Norway. 

 

Since I have the boat in Brekstad at the mouth of the Trondheimfjord whilst living outside Oslo some 500 km away commuting to the boat is a trip. This time I took the seven hour train ride over the mountains to Trondheim.

 

Since I take this train several times a year I tend to view the trip as hassle before I get on the train. But being there and not being able to not glance through the windows and being reminded that the train ride is an attraction in itself.

 

 

Arriving in Trondheim I checked in to my non air-conditioned hotel (at 30 degrees celsius) in Trondheim and spent a sweaty night there. Next day I visited my parents before taking the high speed ferry out the fjord to the boat in some kind of omnious weather..

 

Remote working and afternoon loafing in Brekstad

June 2nd - June 7th Brekstad 

The week after pentecost I stayed in the boat doing covid safe stay at home work in the day and loafing around in the afternoon.

On afternoon I took my trusty Bromton up to Lundahaugen and the top of the second hand 28 cm guns that where the main battery of the WWII vintage Austrått Fort. Second hand since it originally was turret C on the battlecruiser Gneisenau. I haven't been into the fort since I was a little child and hope to be able to revisit after the covid pandemic is over.

Another afternoon the ferry port of Garten (port seems pretentious for such a tiny harbour and the ferries does not roam very far either) became the destination for an afternoon bike trip.

For me with limited physical ability, (due to my unlimited ability to loaf) biking in the flat landscape of Ørland is quite pleasant. So another advantage for the homeport I have chosen, since this flat landscape is very unusual in Norway.