We started out early in order to have a little souvenier shopping, before reaching our plane. On the way to the airport, we found vhal chocolate factory. Yummy… they had a little shop beside the production hall where you could buy choclate packed in 1kg packs. Guess who’s still smiling. 
The filght was all right and the transit from Frankfurt Hahn took longer than expected, but therefore the bus stopped right at Offenbach - Home sweet home.
From Risor, we needed to get a bit nearer to the airport of Trop, where we had to be on friday. We decided to try our luck at Larvin, right there, where our journey started 10 days before. We were lucky and managed to find the camping site, where we initially booked a cabin that we couldn’t take, due to the ferry being canceled. It turned out to be a huge camping site, the biggest so far.
Dropping off our luggage and driving back to Stavern, the nearby city. At first it seemed to be THE tourist town, but than we found the nearby fort and discovered a great swimming site, right beside it. Not having any trunks with us, we headed back to Solplassen Og Rakke Camping (at least I believe this was it) and took our chances there. Surpringsinly, the camping site is located at the same bay, as the fort and as we where enjoying the fresh water, a colorline ferry passed by to enter Larvik harbor. Another sign, that our holiday was almost over.
After dinner we went down to the water again and climbed along the shore. A gull was flying by, crying all the time above us. A few steps further, we found the reason: its offstping was sitting on a rock nearby.
Further on the route along the south shore of Norway, we reached Risor, which is called the pearl of Norway. Nice little white town, with and ancient church, a harbor right in the city center where people drop by via boat, do their shopping and drive off again. The girls went shopping as well, where as Koeby and me took took our position at the harbor and tried to get some decent shots of gulls flying by - yeah right, I am obsessed with picturing sea gulls, got me.
At about 5pm we went back to camping and put on our bathing suits just to find out, that the water there was not the best. Anayway, it was quite refreshing. Noodles for dinner with a long round of cards was the end of the day.
Almost! Although the south of norway is still beyond the Arctic circle, the sun hardly sinks. At about midnight there is still a blue shine on the horizion. Off course I had to take pictures.
After a tasty breakfast we went down the southern route and stopped at Lilesand, another beatyfull cute town wich seemed to be older and more naturally grown than Mandal. We parked at the old chappel and strolled through the city, bought some Rekker (shrimps) and drove further to a camping site near Grimstad and got nice cabin, atop a hill with view over the bay.
We spend the rest of the day bathing and liming in the sun. After dinner, we went down to the bay and fed some craps and fishes with the rekker heads. Nice place… worth a visit.
We hit the E38 and followed it until we reached Mandal, where we got a real apartment, with water inside the cab and a sleeping room on the second floor at Sjosanden. Not quite cheap, but still reasonable for the features. The whole camping site felt like being in south France, with its stone pines all over the place and its sandy beach.
From that day on our trip turned into a real holiday - at temperatures at about 25 degree celsius and a merciless sun burning down at us for almost 20 hours a day, we agreed that we wouldn’t put on our heavy boots and climb some mountain under such circumstances. Instead we went to the city center of Mandal, a beautifully small town, with white wooden houses. Softice was inevitable.
That evening, we went down to the beach again…
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