When the Brunborgs and Shipleys left Morvik’s hytte (see last post) on August 3, we continued up the Number 9 highway to the vicinity of Hovden, where we visited the hytte of Bodil Fjelde and Rune Teisrud.  Of the friends we have made through the Brunborgs, we have known Bodil and Rune the least well and the least longest.  But you would never have known that had you been a fly on the wall during our visit.  They are both enormously warm and friendly people, filled with enthusiasm and optimism and good cheer.  Stand near them in a photo op, and you are going to get hugged.  They are a relatively new couple, living in a relatively new hytte that was designed by Bodil herself.  It is the largest and the most luxurious of the hytte we visited.  A large entrance room.  A large and high-ceilinged living room that features an enormous fireplace.  A lovely kitchen/dining room with a dining table that is “pushed out” into a bay with many windows.  A bathroom with running hot/cold water with a shower and a handsome sink both feed by a demand pump not dissimilar to the kind of pump we have on Tusen Takk II for our fresh-water washdown.  Electric lights powered by a battery bank charged by solar panels and a back-up generator.  A charming master bedroom with its own fireplace and a built-in bed, another bedroom, both on the ground floor, and a gazillion bunks in nooks and crannies upstairs.

We spent the night at the hytte.  Enjoyed delicious meals.  Drank micro beer and wine and Linie aquavit.  Went for a walk up into the hills above the cabin.  Lounged briefly in the area in front of the cabin and to the side of the storage building, after which we had a darts tournament with the target against the storeroom.  Guess who won?  🙂

Our sincere thanks to Bodil and Rune for their hospitality.