Weekend Trip to Rørvik Cabin

So with the unusually warm weather we decided to drive to their cabin by the sea in Rørvik on Thursday instead of waiting until Friday.

Rørvik is the town/area where Knut was born and raised. until he was about five years old. His family then movement into Namsos. The cabin he and Else built is built on a little plot which was cut out from a part his grandfathers farm. It is on a hillside and since you cannot farm it they could purchase it and build their dream cabin. They started back in 1989 with nothing but land and trees. Today stands a beautiful cabin with a couple of out buildings, a large deck that has a small coffee room attached along with its own fireplace. It overlooks the sea and the small mountain goes right up behind.

                                                                       

 

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 All day long boats of all size float by. Two times a day you also get to see both the north bound and
southbound cruise ships called Hutegruten as they come to stop in Rørvik. They are seven day cruise
boats that go up and down the Norwegian coast from Oslo to the North Cap which boarders Russia all year around. I actually took one of the boats back in 1983 from Bergen to Trondheim. That was a ride of a life time and a story for another day.

  

 

  

To get to their cabin we would drive for about one hour, take a 30 minute ferry ride and the drive an additional twenty minutes or so to get there. As we turned down the gravel road Knut pointed out the mountain called "the Hat". He also gave details of his growing up on his grandfathers farm and the old house where his great aunt lived and would give him many good treats. The main farm house is
still occupied by new owners but his great aunts home is about to fall down. Then as we came down a
small hill....there is was....waiting for them that wish to relax, fish, and enjoy the outdoors.

It shows their labor of love. Over the past 25 years they built it entirely by themselves...from clearing the land to laying the bricks of the foundation. They now spend almost every weekend that they can out here enjoying retired life. There is nothing missing from this little cabin from the strawberries and flower garden to the smoker he made to smoke fish caught of the coast with his little fishing  boat. The cabin is two stories with two bedrooms upstairs along with a tv area. One bedroom, bath, kitchen and living/dining room are on the first floor.
From Thursday afternoon until Monday morning....we fished, sat in the sun, read books, swam in the sea, played bocci ball, croquette, and ate and ate and ate....( we slept some too but is it difficult to do when it is light outside 24 hours a day)

Grilling waffles. 

 Enjoying the heat...

 View from the deck.

We also took a couple trips into the town of Rørvik. On one daytime trip I got to take some pictures of the little seaside town.

                                                          

Seagulls nesting on the roofs.

One evening we went on to town to visit and go on board a couple of the cruise boats that we watched sail by each day....there were many people from town there to greet them and I had fun walking around and imagining to some day take the seven day coastal voyage all the way to the
Russian boarder at Hammerfest, Norway

 View from the cabin

 Up close at the dock.

 Dinner smells good.

 As one goes north the other goes south.