Driving In Norway

The view from the top of preikistolen (pulpit rock).  It is called that because that is what it looks like from the fjord.

Ok so driving in other countries is always a challenge.  If you go to England you drive on the left side of the road.  If your drive in Germany you can drive fast, and by the way you learn to drive fast or get run over.  Other countries seem to have no real rules.  Well Norway has rules they are just different than ours.

So here we go!

If you are driving down a road and someone comes in from the right they have the right away and you have to stop and let them go.  There are no stop signs you just have to know this.  We have almost gotten hit a few times for not remembering. That means when you come to the road you slow down and almost stop to see if someone is coming because they will not stop.  Now if you are on a priority road that rule does not apply.  How do you know you you say.  Well there is a yellow triangle on a sign that means it is a priority road.  It can also change to one or no longer one as you drive down the road.

Ok remember I said no stop signs, well they also have very few red lights.  I think I might cancount them all on one hand.  So what do they do instead of red lights and stop signs?  They have round abouts or rotaries.  These are intersections that have a circle in the middle and you drive around the circle to either go straight, right, left, or go back the way you came.  The first one in has the right away.  It is crazy, but seems to work once you understand.  I will try and take a picture so you can see for yourself.

They do not drive above 55 mph, which drives the hubby crazy.  The truth is you can't really go much faster due to the layout of the town and no real highways.  They say they are highways, but they are not like what you and I think of whe we say highways.

So that is driving in Norway.  It is an adventure, but we are getting use to the differences.  I just hope we remember them when we come back to the states.