Days 10 - 16

day 10
We cycled back into Egersund this morning to do some shopping etc. we went to G-sport Sykkel shop to get daans bike gears looked at as they were still not working properly. We weere helped by a fanastic bloke who took one look said ah yes i know exactly the problem they haven't been set right since you first got it, 2 minutes later and hey presto they were working great, he then has a look at my bike as I feel the handelbars are a bit low, however it turns out I have no more room for adjustment as they are set at there highest and I would need to get a new stem only they didnt have the right ones in stock. He then sent us on our way refusing to take any payment as he siad he liked to help out mad tourist...what a cool bloke!
We also went to the other part of G-sport where a very nice man gave us a demonstration on how to use the fishing reel, I think we have an idea now but i am still not totally confidant. We staid in ergsund until well into the afternoon waiting for the temperature to cool of. Once we set off we scycled along the old railway track which beacuase of it being narrow gauge was lots of ups and downs, I had expected a nice easy flat cycle. We then joined the old highway to Ogna which was also extremly steep at places, in fact today both Daan and I had to get off an push the bikes as the hills were so steep adn covered in this really loose fine gravel which meant that as soon as your speed dropped then your wheels just spun around and you didnt go forward. In some parts the hills were so steep that I couldnt even push my bike up them and Daan had to come help me. We set up camp in the middle of a pine forest on a large clearing, we had cycled 31.5 miles and were both fairly tired.

Day 11 We had planned to be up early today however we didnt quite make it and were woken up when about 40 small children walked over around and through the tent, they were out on a nature walk with school and it appeared we had set up camp right in the middle of the walk way. When we emerged they all sort of stood around stairing at us like the latest exotic animals in a zoo, it was rather bizarre. Once we got on our way we realised it was going to be a hard day as it was reallly windy, we stopped briefly at Obrestad lighthousew then went a little further to the Old parsonage in Hå, whwich is a community museum like place with exhibits about teh pearl industry and jewellery makeing that used to happen there. They also had a n exhibit of Russian posters from 1945-65 which were fabulous and a rather scary exhibit of female artists in the area. we staid for about 3 hours as we couldn't face the wind and it was nice and warm there. We then headed off along long flat roads whcich should have been easy cycling only the wind was so strong I didnt really see very much as I just tucked in tight behind daans bike and tried to stay in his slipstream so miles went by and all I saw was daans rear mud gaurd and bottom, which I guess for a honeymoon isnt such a hardship.