Day 12: Gudbrandsdalen & Lunch in Lillehammer

Monday, August 16 proved to be a quick day that carried us from the Wadahl Mountain Hotel at Gålå to Oslo by way of the Gudbrandsdalen with a stop in Lillehammer for lunch and a visit to the Olympic ski center.















(Left to right: Bertie Perry, Gloria Henning, Sally Wilson and "Polly" Ellingson at the 1994 Winter Olympic site overlooking Lillehammer.)










After watching intrepid ski jumpers doing some summer practice jumps on the rubber slopes, our small group of Alumni travelers sauntered down the main pedestrian street of Lillehamer, Storgaten, while some hiked up the hill to visit Maihaugen, the original open air Folk Museum in Norway.











I found a small, nearly out-of-the-way restaurant for lunch -- Nikkers. A funky little place on a sidestreet with an outside deck hanging over a gushing mountain stream tumbling its way to eventually join Lake Mjøsa.

At four o'clock in the afternoon, the purple bus had come full circle in 8 days. Two nights in Oslo await the group before they set out for the final leg of their Scandinavian Odyssey - touring rural and urban Sweden, Dalarna and Stockholm.



The Grand Hotel on Karl Johansgate.









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