Europe has a vast network of pilgrim routes, such as the famous Camino and the collection of pilgrim trails across Sweden, Norway and Denmark known as the St. Olav’s Ways which includes St. Olavsleden, the path
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Sailing along St Olav Waterway
To become a pilgrim is at first, to become a stranger, and to find yourself in a strange place with other strangers. In doing so, everything becomes open. You open yourself to meet with and
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Hiking St. Olavsleden : Folden to Vikhammer to Trondheim
It was a slow morning. We ate a leisurely breakfast before Angeliqa set off to walk to Vikhammer. My toe was no better so I decided to save my foot for the final day, so
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Hiking St. Olavsleden : Borås to Ersgard to Folden
This morning I realised quite early on that I was not going to be able to walk with my toe damaged. It woke me often in the night everytime I touched it on something and
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Hiking St. Olavsleden : Markabygda to Borras
This morning the sun shone down on us again with even warmer temperatures predicted. We made breakfast in the well equipped kitchen at the church hall and prepared our rucksacks for the day. When we
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Hiking St. Olavsleden : Munkeby to Markabygda
One of the first things I saw this morning was this amazing halo around the sun. I’ve seen them around the moon before but not around the sun – apparently this fortells of snow but
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Hiking St. Olavsleden : Stiklestad to Munkeby
Today it rained and rained. I have no photographs from the first few kilometres as my cameras needed to shelter in my bag. The first part was mainly on pavement along a main road surrounded
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Hiking St. Olavsleden : Vuku to Sticklestad
We started the morning with a wonderful breakfast made by Liv, where we got to sample fresh homemade smoked salmon from the river – I’m never going to be able to buy it from the
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Hiking St. Olavsleden : Sul to Vuku
We left Sul in early cool morning sunshine, ready to walk the 28km to Vuku. The trail is very up and down now we are in Norway, with some steep ascents and descents. Much of
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Hiking St.Olavsleden : Medstugan to Sul
The weather was much calmer this morning, thankfully. Today we wanted to cross the mountains and the border into Norway. We hitchhiked a short way in the morning as there was no way we could
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Hiking St.Olavsleden : Tannförsen to Medstugan
We left Tannforsen in the morning feeling certain it was going to rain. A rainbow seemed present almost all day as though it was trying to lift our mood. We walked in contemplative silence for
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Hiking St.Olavsleden : Åre to Tannförsen
We awoke to blue skies filled with paragliders after a restful nights sleep. Our first stop in the morning was at the holiday club hotel to meet with Helena and Sara, have breakfast and deposit
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Hiking St.Olavsleden : Hållandgården to Åre
Day 16 was our second day at Hållandsgården, another rest day for us both due to feeling under the weather. It poured with torrential rain most of the day so we were semi-glad to be
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Hiking St.Olavsleden : Mörsil to Hållandsgården
Day 15 turned into a rest day for both of us, with us both feeling pretty unwell and exhausted. Autumn is already in the air and the leaves are turning. We had a slow morning
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Hiking St.Olavsleden : Hälleberg to Mörsil
We started the day in the most unlikely place you’d think to find in the middle of nowhere. A chocolate shop. Lina’s Praliner is the most wonderful chocolate shop I’ve ever been in and I
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Hiking St.Olavsleden : Rödön to Faxnälden to Hälleborg
I’ve decided to put these two days into one post as they are both rest days and the first of which was very simple for me. Our lovely hosts in Rödön drove me to where