Haugesund, Norway Cruise Port - Spend the day exploring this coastal town on foot!

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We are cruising the Norwegian Fjords on the Caribbean Princess. This video is about our self guided shore excursion (walk) we did while in the coastal port city of Haugesund, Norway.
HAUGESUND, Norway is Home of the Viking Kings! It is carved into the southwest of the country’s marvelous fjord coastline, between the larger cities of Stavanger and Bergen. Once home to prominent Viking kings, this pretty waterfront city is nestled between rocky mountains, silky fjords, and the brisk North Sea.
There are various options to tour the area such as hop on hop off bus $44 per person, electric trolley train, not sure of the cost, the shuttle bus to the city center $8 per person round trip and obviously shore excursions from the ship and local companies. We opted to walk the city and see all the sights at our own pace. It’s a very easy city to walk. We clocked in over 9.6 miles of walking on this day and it was all worth it! It felt good walking off the previous day's “ship meals”. One of our main sights we wanted to see was Norway’s striking obelisk national monument, Haraldshaugen, erected in 1872 to mark 1,000 years since the country’s unification. Haraldshaugen is believed to be the burial place of the country’s first king, Harald Fairhair. Here you can also see Krosshaugen and explore the coastal walk.
Our walk along the coast was greeted with several wooly animals both large and very small. Whether grazing in the lush grass, resting in the shade and chewing their cud, or strolling along on the path behind us, they brought us great enjoyment as we took in the beautiful views.
At the port we saw the DolWin epsilon platform. It is constructed by consortium partners Aibel and Seatrium as part of the DolWin5 project for their client TenneT. It sailed from Singapore marking an important milestone and showcasing the capabilities of Aibel and Seatrium in the ongoing energy transition.
The DolWin epsilon platform was transported to Aibel’s yard in Haugesund, where it arrived in the second half of December. Aibel and Hitachi Energy will install the final technical equipment, including the HVDC converter and transformers, prior to commissioning.
The DolWin epsilon platform is set to leave the yard in Haugesund next summer. Then it will be transported to its final destination in the DolWin cluster in the German North Sea. The platform will have a transmission capacity of 900 megawatts, equivalent to supplying 1.1 million households with green wind power.

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4 июн 2024

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@claudepenco4451 Месяц назад

All those sheep and nothing to eat, Mike !!

@hubbardsjourney Месяц назад

Hi Claudio, Baaaaa-Baaaaa!

@nb5871 Месяц назад

I think the sheep were just curious of who you were and hoping you had a treat for them 🤣

@hubbardsjourney Месяц назад

Thank you for your comments and coming along on our journey around the world. They were definitely cute but, no treats here :)

@Kirribilli_ships Месяц назад

I really enjoyed watching your video. Lovely town with beautiful scenery and I love the sheep following you. All the best from Paul

@hubbardsjourney Месяц назад

Hi Paul, Thank you for your kind words and coming along on our journey around the world. We hope all is well!

@leifgunnartoth8070 28 дней назад

Techincally they are windturbines, as they generate electricity, and doesn't mill anything, but we all call them windmills :P

@hubbardsjourney 28 дней назад

Thank you 😁

@disrn6862 Месяц назад

Baaaaaa! Very interesting to see how they charge their vehicles

@hubbardsjourney Месяц назад

Hi Kelly, Thank you for your comment and for coming along on our journey around the world.

@Glenni91N Месяц назад

Norwegian and Haugesund local here, "All tømming forbudt" means "all dumping forbidden" - as in people dumping yard trimmings, garbage, furniture, old appliances etc. it's a bit of an issue in dead end streets, or other places that are a bit off the beaten track. Some people just insist on being lazy instead of taking it to the proper recycling stations I guess. Aside from that, glad you liked the city, it's always fun to see the perspective of cruise tourists visiting here. It's old news in most of those destinations in Norway, but Haugesund's only been a cruise stop for the past 4-5 years, so it's been a learning experience for us, we like the hustle and bustle whenever a cruise ship is in town though! :D

@hubbardsjourney Месяц назад

Thank you for the comments and for your help with the translation. I was kinda close, or maybe not…LOL! I'm assuming you have been to that beach area? It was a nice place to hang out. We loved the port and the ability to walk everywhere, a very clean town but wished there were more local flavors of food and drink. Of course we were also there on a Sunday so that may have added to the situation. Have you been to any other Norwegian port towns? We will be visiting the following ports below. We are open to any ideas of what to do if you like to share. In addition to seeing the historical sites we really like trying local foods, drinks and talking with locals. On our next cruise journey we will be in Stavanger, Tromso, Alta, Honningsvag, Gravdal, Trondheim, Andalsnes, and Olden (on our last visit here we were on a water shuttle and they brought us into the to Leon port and not the town of Olden).

@Glenni91N Месяц назад

@@hubbardsjourney Yeah, unfortunately a lot of stuff is closed on Sundays, as is typical for Norway. There's been debates in the local newspaper about allowing more stores to open for Sunday though. But as you can imagine, that would require Sunday pay, yadda yadda, lots of hurdles. As for typical Norwegian cuisine related things, there aren't really a ton of specifically Norwegian places in the city centre. Most of it is foreign ones like Indian, Chinese, Thai, Italian, etc. But there's some. Right next to the Risøy bridge (the one you cross over from the docks and cruise terminal to the city centre) there's the historic Lothe's Restaurant, that one is a bit on the pricier side, but has a few Norwegian dishes. -Next, on Indre Kai (Inner Quay), this is the long cobble street you see by the waterfront down from the Risøy bridge, there you have Brasserie Brakstad, they serve creamy fish soup, fresh cod, and lamb shanks, well worth a try. :) Ans then, nearby the kinda bogus Marilyn Monroe statue that you mentioned, you have Hotel Maritim, there is a seafood restaurant there, Naustet, -Aside from that, in Haraldsgata, the long pedestrian street that spans most of the city centre, you have some options for cafés that serve coffee, tea, sandwiches, Norwegian waffles (the heart shaped ones), lefse, baked goods etc. Choices like Tesalongen, Naturbakst, and Totalen, are spots us locals like to frequent. - and there's a new one, Tre Stuer that recently opened, that one is run by a charity organisation though, they help immigrants, and other people that need job training, and the like, so it closes very early, even on weekdays, 3pm. But they have good food though. :) The whole thing with Marilyn Monroe having roots to here isn't really about her specifically, but her mother's husband, Martin Edward Mortensen, he was born in California, but he had roots from Haugesund. The problem here though is that he wasn't her father, they married, they seperated, but in the meantime someone else that Gladys Monroe had a an affair with ended up as Marilyn's father. This was proven by DNA testing in 2022. So I really don't understand why they even bothered with a statue. It adds nothing, and if anything just creates confusion. A much more tangible statue is the little Statue of Liberty replica at the Visnes Copper Mines (now a museum) on Karmøy, they *did* supply copper to the Statue Of Liberty during its construction.

@Glenni91N Месяц назад

The little beach you went to, Asalvika isn't one I frequently go to, I sometimes go there on evenings just to rest after a bike ride though. :) It's used by a few people that live in the neighbourhood around it on the other hand. I prefer the larger beach of Åkrasanden a little outside of Haugesund, in the coastal town of Åkrehamn on Karmøy, the large island next to Haugesund. it does take a few weeks of nice and warm weather for that water to be even remotely warm enough to swim in though, haha. :P Other than that, there are two lakes that are popular to swim in during summer, Haraldsvangen, and Eivindsvannet. As for other coastal towns and cities: I go to Bergen and Stavanger pretty often, as they are nearby, especially Stavanger, that's just a 2 hour drive along E39. Aside from that, not been to Åndalsnes, but I have been in the nearby city of Molde quite a few times. I have also been to Ålesund a few times. Ålesund, Åndalsnes and Molde are in the county of Møre og Romsdal. While Haugesund, and Stavanger are in Rogaland county. The furthest north I've been is Trondheim though, so I haven't seen cities and towns like Tromsø, Bodø, Narvik, or Kirkenes yet. As for Alta, Alta is a major Sami town, Samis are a local indigenous population we have in Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia in the north, so that'd be worth looking into, for sure. :) They have a culture that's pretty distinct from the usual Norwegian stuff. I suspect they docked the ship in Loen, and not Olden because it's either too shallow in Olden, or simply too tight to manouver a cruise ship there. It's a bit of a show watching from my 11th floor apartment whenever they dock the cruise ships here in Haugesund as it is, where they need to turn the ship around, and all. Olden is just a teeny tiny place at the end of a fjord arm. I can't remember if I've been there myself, might have on a roadtrip at some point. Roadtripping in Norway is a little different from cruising, as you pass so many towns, villages, waterfalls, mountains, tunnels, and what not, that they sorta just end up a blur in the end. This is especially true here on the west coast. :p Onto Stavanger; Stavanger is close to 350 000 people, which makes it a fairly large city by Norwegian standards, only beaten by Bergen and Oslo. So it has a ton of things to offer, museums, shopping, venues, cafes, bars etc in the historic core. You'll have no problems finding things to see and do there, I think. :)

@VampyrMygg День назад

@@hubbardsjourney I grew up in one of the big brick houses next to the graveyard ya passed by, with a path right down to the little beach, used it a lot as a kid, had to practically get dragged out... as even if the beach looks nice, it ain't warm, so my lips would turn blue. :P

@hubbardsjourney 15 часов назад

@@VampyrMygg That’s awesome! Thank you for sharing your memories and coming along on our journey around the world.