Ålesund; Friday, 06 September, 2019

As my flight wasn’t until lunchtime I was able to have a bit of lie in and a late breakfast before heading down to catch the shuttle bus back to the airport to checkin for my flight to Ålesund.

Despite it being a slight chaotic and last-minute boarding the flight pushed back from the gate on time and was very quickly at the end of the runway. The flight was pretty smooth for most of the journey, although for the last 10 minutes we descended a bit bumpily through the rain clouds down to Ålesund, arriving into a downpour that looked like it had been going on for some time.

Ålesund is a small airport without air bridges, so we all got quite a bit wet on the short walk from the plane to the terminal building. A couple of minutes later the baggage belt started up and my bag was the second one off so I was quickly through the airport and out onto the shuttle bus into town.

From bus stop in town it was only a short walk to the hotel, which I was glad off as the rain had, if anything, got heavier during the short ride in from the airport. I made it to the hotel, checked in and headed up to my room to dry off and hope that the rain would ease off.

In the end the train didn’t really ease that much at all during the day or evening. There were a few patches when it decreased to a light drizzle for about 10 minutes before picking up intensity again. I took the opportunity of one of those patches to pop out for a wander around the nearby harbour area to take a few photos and another lull to pop out and grab a quick dinner.

Given the poor weather I ended up having an early night.