Trip To Norway - Fishing/camping with Torjus

[elma]

It's been over a week now since Neil Chris and I have come back from our camping and fishing trip in the mountains of Telemark.
Many thanks to Torjus for arranging it all, he worked hard to make our trip enjoyable and interesting, only my own level of fitness let us down.
Special thanks to Torjus' family who made us most welcome especially his mum who worked hard to ensure we went home a few pounds heavier.
I think I speak for us all when I say thanks for a most memorable time.
hope we can do it again some time :You_Rock_ :You_Rock_


Ian
photo's of the trip are in the gallery

 

[torjusg]

Had a great time as well Ian. Thank you yourself!

And of course we can do it again. I will try to limit the amount of walking next time.

Couldn't find the photos though....

Torjus Gaaren

 

[C_Claycomb]

Torjus, if you pm me your home address I will get a CD with both Ian, and my, photos. I can't promise how quick I will be, but I will try. I am going to be doing the same for Neil. If you get me your address today I should be able to get the pictures in the post at the same time, say Tues or Weds this week.

Thanks for taking us. Special thanks to your family for making us so welcome!

 

[Dan Wound]

Can't find the pictures.....linky ??

 

[ilovemybed]

It was a great trip. If anyone else gets the chance, I'd jump at it if I were you.

Just remember that Norwegian maps have 30m intervals in the contour lines on the map, so if you see an area where there are no contours, you can be sure that you'll be walking up 29m, then down 29m, then back up again, all the way until you get to the really steep bit... The phrase "Relatively flat" became a bit of a joke after a few days

Can't thank the Gaaren family enough for the generous hospitality. If I can ever return the favour just let me know

Cheers also to the fellow travellers

Sorry, no photos from me. I destroyed my camera with beer a few months ago...

Neil

 

[ilovemybed]

http://www.pbase.com/ilovemybed/norway_06

pics!

Neil

 

[Dan Wound]

Wow, that looks amazing, wonderful views and generally awesome scenery. Good to see you had some luck with the 'Brownies', did you eat them ?? How did you cook them ??

I have a week long trip to Norway planed for late september, these pics have got me even more excited.

 

[Moonraker]

http://www.pbase.com/ilovemybed/norway_06

pics!

Neil

Great photos!!!! Thanks for sharing them Neil.

Funny how photos bring back memories of such gorgeous landscapes. The brown trout look beautiful and the hytte looks a great place to recover from long stomps

 

[arctic hobo]

Looks like a fantastic time, thanks for sharing folks
I haven't been to Norway for nearly a month now, I miss it

 

[BorderReiver]

Lovely photographs,thank you.

Glad that you enjoyed your trip.

 

[ilovemybed]

well, I can't take the credit for the photos - They're Chris and Elma's. I just posted them up...

It was amazing. get yourselves over there!

 

[ilovemybed]

Wow, that looks amazing, wonderful views and generally awesome scenery. Good to see you had some luck with the 'Brownies', did you eat them ?? How did you cook them ??

I have a week long trip to Norway planed for late september, these pics have got me even more excited.

We caught loads - too many to eat! That was the biggest one by a fair margin - well done Elma! most were small because there's so many in the lakes. They compete so hard for food they can't feed up. In fact
it got a little frustrating that so many tiddlers were going for the lures

Ate them in loads of ways. Fried in flour, straight over the fire with a stick in their gob to keep them supported, ponassed, in a sort of kedgeree, you name it. We also had Elk, pork (thanks to Torjus's ex pig), smoked elk (because we had so much elk meat it would have spoilt otherwise)
and lots of biltong. Yum yum!

 

[Moonraker]

We caught loads - too many to eat! That was the biggest one by a fair margin - well done Elma! most were small because there's so many in the lakes. They compete so hard for food they can't feed up. In fact
it got a little frustrating that so many tiddlers were going for the lures

Ate them in loads of ways. Fried in flour, straight over the fire with a stick in their gob to keep them supported, ponassed, in a sort of kedgeree, you name it. We also had Elk, pork (thanks to Torjus's ex pig), smoked elk (because we had so much elk meat it would have spoilt otherwise)
and lots of biltong. Yum yum!

Man that sounds like heaven I suppose now you will tell us it was all followed up by wild blueberries, raspberries picked in abundance and washed down with some akevitt

 

[ilovemybed]

Man that sounds like heaven I suppose now you will tell us it was all followed up by wild blueberries, raspberries picked in abundance and washed down with some akevitt

Nearly. the various wild berries weren't ripe yet , we had an abundance of strawberries not raspberries (Thanks Mrs Gaaren!) and it was a litre of quarter cask laphroaig!

 

[torjusg]

Man that sounds like heaven I suppose now you will tell us it was all followed up by wild blueberries, raspberries picked in abundance and washed down with some akevitt

Well, it was a little early for those goodies. We washed them down with pure mountain water, Neil's Laphroaig and Chris' Firewater.

Torjus Gaaren