05/08/2026
🇳🇴 While Europe melts, our drivers are digging jumpers out of their suitcases.
This is the view from a roadside stop near Voss — one of those places where the water goes so still that the farms, the forest and the sky all get painted twice. Our Sprinter is on the right. The picnic table has probably seen a thousand better photographers than us.
A few things about this corner of Norway:
🏔️ Voss is the adrenaline capital of Norway — every June it hosts Ekstremsportveko, the world’s largest extreme sports festival. Skydiving, kayaking, base jumping, paragliding. And then everyone goes home for a quiet dinner.
⛪ Vangskyrkja, the stone church in the town centre, was consecrated in 1277. When Voss was bombed and burned in April 1940, the church stood. It’s still standing today.
✝️ Just outside it is St. Olav’s Cross, raised around 1023 to mark the Christianization of the valley. A thousand years of people stopping to look at these mountains.
🍽️ And the local delicacy is smalahove — smoked sheep’s head, served whole. Eyes included. Traditionally you start with the ear.
🌡️ Today’s forecast here: sweater weather. Somewhere south of us, it’s 38°C.
Sometimes the job takes you to a postcard.