Euro Day 51 - Drammen & WOC

Tuesday, 13 August 2019

We might have less than a week to go in our awesome holiday, but we are finishing in fine style.

Today we had a leisurely breakfast in Drammen with the Verde-Thons, then we went for a walk in the forest behind the house. Aside from admiring the view..

we also checked out the lake Jon and Bjorn swam in when we visited in winter 2015. It looks a lot more inviting now:

Then we packed the car that Lars-Henrik very kindly lent us, and drove in convoy down to Sarpsborg, the centre of the World Orienteering Championships.  We've got a series of spectator races to run here, and today was the sprint.  It was fun but it had lots of long legs and was without many technical challenges.  After Switzerland we all appreciated the open forest sections and the flatness!

We're using the other electronic timing system here. It seems very clunky compared to our usual little SI units.

Much to the kids delight we had pizza in Sarpsborg after our races. 

Then we checked out a bit of the opening ceremony for the WOC athletes. 

Now we're 30 minutes drive further south in a little community called Sponvika. Our house (booked by Harald), is amazing. It has an indoor swimming pool, spa and sauna.  More photos to come of this later.