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Valberg must have one of the world's most perfectly positioned churches, set just a few metres from the brilliant white sandy beach and the intense, blue ocean.  Admittedly that was in summer when the sun was shining twenty four hours a day; I wonder how grim it is when the winter darkness falls and it is all howling, bitterly cold winds...

A number of pitiful Norwegian hyperboles demonstrating their parochial view of the world, not to mention examples of an excess only possible with their obscene oil wealth...an 800 metre tunnel drilled through the mountain to replace the old pass over the mountains to serve a really substantial community of less than ten homes!

It is, however, quite amazingly beautiful when the sun shines, which it did on several occasions as I watched the midnight sun bouncing off the sea...

Eggum Haukland Stamsund Unnstad Valberg

 

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