It has been a long day with only one real stop, at Lillehammer, and a few necessary stops to charge the car and grab a snack. Nearly 400 miles on quiet roads is not a problem really but I did expect more motorway than there is. It pretty much dies at Lillehammer wirth still 280 miles to go. That said the quality of the roads is very high and with little traffic it meant I could keep up a steady pace. It was damp when I left Oslo with the GoPro on to capture the city exit and usually a glimpse of some previously unseen parts. Not Oslo though. As soon as I wiggled a few streets down to “The Ring” the road goes underground and a tunnel took me out into the suburbs. Very efficient but with limited sight seeing potential. It was a wet morning and as I drove the couple of hours up to Lillehammer it was a case of wet valley - tunnel - new valley dry - tunnel - new valley wet on a regular basis and when I took the turnoff to follow a scenic road the last 20 km to Lillehammer the sun was shining. My purpose of stopping was to take a look at the winter olympic facilities with a focus on the ski slope, which usually attracts me in such places. After driving up to the olympic park  the view back to the town was excellent but also bad news as you can see in the headline picture. The rain was sweeping along the valley so it was a quick dash to the bottom of the ski slope and back to the car as the heavens openned. Lucky timing. I dropped down into the town to charge the car and got a little wet. I could easily have made one less stop for charge as I had not anticipated that the final 80 miles or so was all down hill to Trondheim. I should have realised as the road climbs into the mountains but has to get back to sea level. The car was telling me but I did not believe it. Silly me. One of the clever things about electric vehicles is that, like internal combustion vehicles, they use less “fuel” going down hill but unlike their traditional alternatives they also put fuel back into the tank with regeneration. I ran for about 15 miles with the same remaining battery capacity while driving at 50 miles per hour. I do like my car! I made a brief stop when I saw a lovely church pretty close to Trondheim. By the size of the car park they must have a huge congregation. When I got to Trondheim I just freshened up, changed from travel clothes and took the 5 minute walk to the harbour restaurant district which was humming on what was, by now, a lovely Saturday evening. A spicy Calzone and a non-alcoholic 1664 Blanc was just what I needed to prepare for a little photo editing and blogging. As the headline is from Lillehammer I will add three more pictures from there. A panorama of the ski slope, some intrepid climbers and a very wet largely deserted charging station. The run from Dompass to Oppdal was across some wonderful high moorland which looked great in the afternoon light as you will see in the frame from the GoPro. Mountains, lakes and heathland and this area features on one of Norway’s long distance walks called the Kongesvergen, I think. I mentioned the church and it is next. That gets us to the Port of Trondheim and its popular waterfront. In the first picture my hotel is essentially over my right shoulder on the waterside. Then it is along to the main eating hub and my chosen spot which had the full range of clients from a teenager’s birthday party, a large group covering three generations of clearly family, young families, young couples and old travellers like me. The sort of place I like, unpretentious, popular, good service and good food at, for Norway, a fair price.