Letter 5

ULRIK

Ulvik

HOTEL BRAKANES. (BOATS FOR HOTEL GUESTS. SWIMMING. TEMP. 66 At breakfast I collected a little assortment of cracker for the trip this P.M.(as one never can be sure where we eat next on these trips.)We wandered down to the doc

dock

and watched a lot of women buying fish from a fish wag

wagon

Bought myself a pair of scissors- and a straw basket to carry my paints in. Back to the hotell

hotel

and Gail went swimming-tempture 66

-temperature 66

Then we suddenly decided we might as well get off on the 12.30 ferryinstead

ferry instead

of waiting fo

for

the 5 o'clock which would only bring us into so lat

late

S we hustled around- Otto had let some shirts go to the laundry- but the

they

rushed around and finished them. The feryy

ferry

was the "Folgefonn" Very nice vayage

voyage

of les

less

than an hour. Not many people on board and about eight cars. We rather hated to leave Ulrik

Ulvik

. The hotel Brakanes is said to be the best in Norway.It was warm and lovely- people lying about

about

on the grass-having tea etc. The re is a little bath shed with compartment and curtains along the edge of the terrace.All very casual and quite delighttul The drive was along the edge of the Hardanager Fjoud

Fjord

. The largest and deepst of them all.Some places were very rocky- the road being blasted out of the rock. Beautiful waterfalls- some tunnels to pass thro

through

Arrived atthe

at the

Solfonn Hotel about 4.30 Wrote lletters

letters

and rested, Dinner o

of

fresh salmon