We left Oslo early this morning and started making our way West. The first stop was in Kongsberg at the Silver Mines. I should have been a little apprehensive or had some kind of ill feeling about going over mile into a mountain, but all of us just quickly ducked into the tiny cars ready to be pulled into the mines.
It was a bumpy, 12-minute ride in.
The second stop was in Notodden to visit Norway’s biggest stave church, which was built in the 13th century.
The last stop on the itinerary was the Vemork Heavy Water Museum in Rjukan, which was overthrown by the German’s during WWII to produce the atomic bomb. The story is fascinating and definitely worth reading about! I wouldn’t be able to do it justice. : )
After visiting the museum, we gradually followed a very curvy road to the top of a mountain. The hotel was at the top, basically in the middle of nowhere. There is a little community up here at the base of ski hills, but the hotel feels more like a retirement cabin. I was hoping there would be dancing at night with a live band… there was music, a woman singing American music with a Norwegian accent, but I was a little disappointed there was no dancing.
Also, last note, it flurried today.
