Travel has become something really important in my life as I’ve settled into a career where I don’t need to move every few years, and the single most transformative trip I think I’ve been on in my life was to Norway this summer.
I cannot stop talking about it, thinking about it, which is funny because I had never thought “oh, I need to go to Norway” until suddenly and urgently I wanted to go this year.
It was nothing I expected. These are photos from our first day in Älesund, where we stayed the night in a lighthouse?!! My husband found and booked this one, so it was a total surprise, and completely magical (for one night, it’s also small and people are constantly trying to let themselves in).
We spent the trip traveling through the fjords of Western Norway, and surprise, there was a royal wedding in the area while we did it, so it was a really unique time to be in the area.
We basically kept hearing about it and being asked if we’d seen anything because we happened to be in Älesund the night of some wedding event there. Sadly, we had no idea and had no gossip to offer. We also kept getting the question “was it crowded?” Which, maybe it was? But coming from New York it didn’t feel crowded at all. In either case, it serves as a kind of time stamp, and if we had nothing to offer at least it served as a conversation starter.
Have you been somewhere that you can’t get out of your mind?
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