Norwegian Odyssey Day 12, Monday 6 January: Savalen to Tynset to Oslo to Gothenburg

Quick breakfast. Christian brought the car up to the cabin early, and we packed the last of the things, got Jen and Charlie settled in the car, packed in Meelis, and said farewell to Andy (and the sleeping Ali).

And then we started the journey. It was still mostly dark as we drove down to the main road (dropping our rubbish on the way), and then turned left to go into Tynset. Jen had arranged to sit in the hotel next to the station with Charlie until Andy joined her later - we settled them in, and then Christian, Meelis and I continued on the road south. By now it was 8.45.

It was only 50 mins to Alvdal - our first charge. We were there for 45 mins. And then another two hours (with a quick toilet/chocolate stop for Christian) to Elverum, where we got an impossibly huge tray of hot chips for lunch. It was a quick half-hour, so we got back on the road almost immediately.

It was another 45 minutes and then we were at the airport and saying goodbye to Meelis.

 

Another hour and 20 (of our first time alone for what felt like forever) and we were at the Tomter supercharger. It was a large, square layout, basically in the middle of nowhere, served by a fairly nice services. We bought Ali some Bilar sweets, which she'd requested from Tynset.

 

We made another stop at around 5pm for a toilet, and to potentially have an early dinner. The restaurant we stopped at seemed pretty closed, so we just used the facilities and continued on our way.

 

After another hour and 45, we stopped one more time outside Gothenburg to charge quickly, at  Kungalv, which was just after a very pretty village done up beautifully in lights, and then we went into the city. It was fairly quick to find the car park with the chargers and to plug in.

 

We got our luggage out, and did the quick walk over the overpass to the boat we'd arranged to stay in. It was huge! And quite exciting with all the lights on the harbour.

We checked in, and had a quick walk around the boat, and then found our room. It was only really the angles that told you that you were on a boat - it wasn't moving at all that I could tell.

 

We had a little time to sit and unwind before going out for dinner. It turns out that this was a mistake, as there wasn't much around that was open at that point. Thankfully, we found a lovely sushi place just around the corner (Takame), and settled into the cosy surroundings for a really lovely meal.

 

We only just finished eating before the restaurant closed. We took ourselves on a little walk afterwards - first up into a hilly, cobbled old town area, and then back down to the main road and up to the river and a lovely square with a tree set up. We took some photos, and then went into the shopping centre attached to the car park we were using. It was all closed, but all quite shiny.

We took one more detour before getting back to the boat - around the harbour, and back along the wharf, making friends with a pig on the way.

Back on the boat, we settled in for the night.

And sleep.