Boats and holiday homes - Mandal to Arendal - 4th-6th June
After a night with the nightingales (who were still singing in the morning) I headed off along the coast towards Kristiansand and Arendal. Boat in garden - Lillesand It was a quiet sunny day and there were holiday homes and boats everywhere. I began to think that there might be more boats than Norwegians. By the time I reached Kristiansand it was feeling like summer. I wandered around the town a bit and then set off to find the campsite out near the airport. It was in a massive open field by a main road and was the most expensive I stayed on in Norway – more than twice the price of the excellent one at Sandnes the previous night. The girl on the check-in assured me it was the best in Kristiansand and I believed her because I’d been told the other one was more like a swamp. Map. The next day I continued on towards Arendal, inland at first to reach a bridge, then back to the coast. Lilac was coming into bloom, and dog-roses, and I ke...