A Fresh Start : My Norwegian Holiday Thumbnails

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Photo 288: If it's Thursday we must be on our way to the Briksdal glacier. It is, and we are. Photo 289: These first shots are of Olden Lake and the Melkevoll glacier in the background (Briksdal is just around the corner to the left). Photo 290: There were pretty flowers at our photo-op ... Photo 291: ... as well as a stream which we thought was impressive at the time. How little we knew! Photo 292: Now THIS is an impressive waterfall! See that bridge across the fall? We got soaked, I can tell you. On a hot day it was great. Photo 293: Such a pity there are no leprechauns in Norway or we'd have been rich, I tell you, rich! Photo 294: There's the Briksdal Glacier in the distance. Photo 295: Getting closer - Mick, Jackie and I were getting rather tired by now after climbing for almost an hour. Photo 296: Soon enough, though, it was time to put on the bondage gear and prepare for another hour's walking, this time on the glacier itself! Photo 297: Ha ha - doesn't this other group look silly? Hang on, we probably look the same to them. Except without pink helmets. Photo 298: Jackie, Mick and Charis (from r to l) listen intently to Larss's instructions. I just took snaps, confident in my icewalking ability. Photo 299: Ooh. Don't you get an odd effect when you use zoom when you've got a wide angle adaptor fitted? Photo 300: Larss explained how the dirt on the ice has come from atmospheric pollution - hard to believe when you're somewhere so clean and fresh as Norway. Photo 301: One last shot of the glacier, rolling over the top - it's just one arm of a 500km² glacier (the largest in Europe, of course). Photo 302: And a final shot to prove I got off the ice in one piece. Fell over as soon as I got back onto dry land, of course, but didn't break anything.

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