Kjetil's Ålesund (Alesund) page
June 30, 1997
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Kjetil's Ålesund (Alesund) page
June 30, 1997
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The city right now !! Live photo from Mimer's Brunn. If you want more information about this area check out the nice site Nettviseren Møre og Romsdal. It's in Norwegian, but very useful. It even contains several beautiful photos from the area (Trollstigen, Geiranger, etc.). If you're looking for general information about and/or from this area, check out Sunnmøre & Sunnmøringer.
Ålesund has one of the largest export harbours in the world for "klippfisk", i.e. split, dried and salted cod. The export of fish to many countries such as Portugal and Brazil has made some exotic meals like Bacalao a "national food" of the area.
This is a picture of Ålesund. It's the standard picture found in every tourist brochure of
this area, taken from Fjellstua, a restaurant on top of the city mountain Aksla.
These are the western (outer) parts of the city. The strait in the middle of the picture is what gave the
city it's name ("Ål" means "Eel" and "sund" is Norwegian for "sound"). If you click on this picture
you will land on the Ålesund City homepage with among other things a clickable map of the city and lots
of links related to this city. You can also check out the pages of
Ålesund Reiselivslag , a site full of tourist info about
this beautiful city. If you haven't been there, do yourself a favour and go there this summer.
There are several ways to get to Ålesund. If you are a foreign tourist you will probably visit Oslo or some other major city on your trip to Norway. The easiest way to get to Ålesund will then be to fly there using Braathens SAFE or Widerøe. There are several flights every day from Oslo, Stavanger, Bergen, Trondheim, etc. Braathens fly Boeing 737 and Widerøe use smaller propeller driven aircrafts.
If you don't like flying you can of course go there by car. Follow Europavei 6 (E6) northbound from Oslo or southbound from Trondheim. Turn west at Dombås and follow E9 to Ålesund. The road from Dombås to Ålesund offer some spectacular views like Trollveggen and Trollstigen depending on which route you'll choose.
And then there's the seaway. The Norwegian Coastal Liner (Hurtigruta) passes Ålesund on it's way up or down the coast. It's a fantastic trip.
If you'll need a place to stay, here's a great list.
This is a birds view of Ålesund overlooking the city from the west side. This picture is taken by Steve Michael and he
has more pictures on his homepage.
The white building you can see on the city mountain is the Fjellstua restaurant where I took the photo above.
In the back of this photo you can see the beginning of the
high mountains called Sunnmørsalpene (the Sunnmøre Alps).
This is Latinskolen,
a commercial school in which I spent a year in 80-81. A very beautyful building built after the city fire in 1904. The main building was completed
in 1907 and the annex in 1920. It represents the style so typical for Ålesund (Art Nouveau) very well.
You can look at some more images from Ålesund here or visit
the Ålesund based Web site Mimer's Brunn for more info about this area.
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