My snapshots this week are from Larvik, a town in Vestfold that we are visiting for the weekend. We arrived last night and are staying until tomorrow. The hotel, Farris Bad, is very nice. We’ve already used the spa facilites once, and will do the same again later tonight.

Yesterday Larvik had thunder, lightning and lots of rain. The worst of the weather had passed when we got here, but the surf was still up. I didn’t get a picture of the surfers that arrived a bit after the first two pictures were taken, but we did see them from the hot tub in the spa.

So, here you are, waves breaking under our hotel.

Today we played golf at Larvik golfklubb. In the proshop the told us that yesterday they had ducks swimming in the bunkers. Some of the bunkers hadn’t drained yet, but no ducks were swimming in them today.

Maybe the bunkers could have benefited by the draining system that this water hazard has. The water were running through this hole and came out in a creek on the other side of the path. Looked cool too, like a little whirlpool.

After the golf Kristin and I went for a walk in the beech forest. This is the worlds second northmost natural beech forest. The only one further north is the one at Seim, just north of Bergen.

From several places in the forest you can see the town and the Larvik fjord.

Then we came back to the hotel. It’s been a windy day, but the fjord was a lot calmer than yesterday and the water looked inviting.

Well, time to get some dinner.

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