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Hi there, my name is Paul from Oslo and I'm heading on a road trip in Norway
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The car I'll be using is a Volkswagen T3 camper from 1987
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This van has everything I need, a comfortable place to sit, a bed, a fridge, a kitchen
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and even a tall guy like me can stand straight when the roof tent is up
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In this first part I'll be heading north visiting a few places along the E6 Highway
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such as the world's tallest wooden building, and the ski jumping hills in Lillehammer
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When finally up in the mountains, I'll do a hike to the top of Mount Mewen
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About an hour north of Oslo you come to Lake Mewa. is the largest lake in Norway and also one of the deepest in Europe with depths up to 449 meters
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Along meosa you have the Espa gas station famous for their wheat buns. Actually, they're aiming to sell
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1.8 million of them this year and are so popular they even got their own merchandise. So
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I stacked up on a few of course. The diesel in Norway costs about 12 to 14 kroner for a liter
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That's about $5 for a gallon. I stopped by a grocery store loading up on oats, snacks
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and I also did a stop by Vien Monopole. These are the only stores in Norway where you can get alcohol stronger than 4.7%
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In other words, it's where you buy wine. I made a stop in the town of Hamar, which has an arena that was built for the Olympics in Lillehammer in 1994
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It's named Viking Sheephe, the Viking ship, and is designed as the hull of a Viking ship lying upside down
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This was where the speed skating took place, and Norway actually won a few medals
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The most legendary one was gold and a new world record on 1500 meters by Johann Olaf Koss
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Bligh the record? Yeah, it will it! 6 The untrothole Juan Koss has not to again A bit more than the other than the world horse has not yet A bit north of Hamar you find the world tallest timber building
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It's called Mewes Torna, which translates to the Tower of Mewsa. It's an 18-story, 85.4 meter high, mixed-used building, with a hotel, apartment
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offices, a swimming hall, and so on. The main vertical, lateral and structural and the floor spanning systems of Miostornah are constructed from timber
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So therefore it is considered a timber building despite having some non-timber elements in it
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Miostornah has kind of become a symbol of the green shift and it proves that tall buildings can be built using local resources
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local suppliers and sustainable wooden materials. And from the top, there is an amazing view of the lake
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One, two, one, two, three, four
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At the very northern end of Lake Mewsa is the town of Lillehammer, well known for the TV series
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Lillehammer, starring Stephen Fanzan. Why the f*** do you want to go there
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Didn't you see the Olympics in 94? Clean air, fresh white snow, gorgeous broods
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It was beautiful. But maybe better known for hosting the Winter Olympics in 1994
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Maybe you're old enough to remember these images from the opening ceremony
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kilometers of driving today. Finally up here in a part of Norway which is called
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Gudbransdalen the Gudbranz valley and it one of the most well valleys that we have in Norway it a beautiful valley and you probably here that roaring sound And that is a hydro plant that I got Justin Brandtof me here which is called
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Hundur Fossum. The Hundur Fosen Hydroplan is one of many in Norway and produces about 641
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one gigawatt of electricity a year. Norway is actually the seventh biggest producer of hydropower in the world
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and 98% of our electricity is produced that way. I continued the journey north on the E6 until I took right onto National Road 27
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and started driving up to Vena Buigds Fjelléli. Driving up in the mountains here now
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Getting higher and higher. Soon we'll be probably up on a thousand meter, more or less
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It's early morning and I'm up here at Venabig's
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The weather is nice and today I'm just going to enjoy the surroundings here and probably go for a little hike
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Alright, here we are at our hiking starting point and we're heading up to Moon, which is up there, 1424 meters above sea level, so probably use a couple of hours up and we'll get a couple of hours up and we'll get
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a really good view up on the top there so let go Let go
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Something special about being in the mountains I think especially in fall time
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It's something in the air, it's like a crisp feeling in the air
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And you have all the colors, red, orange, yellow starts to come out
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It's a very refreshing experience. Heading up the last final bit here now and the last stretch here up is what we in Norwegian call
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Stein Reus which is basically a hill of rocks and that's what leads me up to the very top
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I made it. I'm at the top and here's the proof. I have a memory from I guess about 22 years ago. I think this was where we hiked up
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with my dad and my brother and I'm pretty sure we were standing in Lee that Cairn because it was really windy that day
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So I'm going to try and find that photo when I get back home
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home anyways what a spectacular view of the mountain range
