The first major town on today’s journey was Alesund, the headquarters of today’s fishing industry. Evidence of the past importance of cod is to be found in the remains of the Bryggen on the waterfront. This was only a brief visit and we returned later in the day to enable us to leave the ship.
The Hjorundfjorden excursion took us to the head of the fjord to witness its remote agricultural landscape on the strandflat – glacial remains forming a thin strip of land at the water’s edge.
Upon returning to Alesund we walked around its small port to photograph the Art Deco buildings and the ‘finest fish and chip shop in the world’, surrounded by evidence of the town’s importance in the country’s fishing industry.