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| Title: At the Stavanger train station, Peg gets ready to board our modern streamlined train that will take us comfortably to Oslo. |
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| Title: As we head southwest of Stavanger and leave behind the urban and industrial areas, we enter the lush farm land of the Jæren region of Rogaland fylke. |
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| Title: This rich farm area in Jæren is remarkably flat compared to most of the rest of the terrain we observed in Norway. |
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| Title: Further south in Rogaland, as we near Egersund, we start seeing more water and become aware that we are again near the sea. |
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| Title: As the train turned inland at
Egersund, we are soon entering mountainous regions with their many beautiful lakes. |
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| Title: The majestic granite mountains and rocky slopes again become part of the landscape. |
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| Title: Here the train makes a quick stop at the mountain community of Snartemo in Vest-Agder fylke. On both sides of this town are rather long train tunnels. |
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| Title: As we continue southeast towards Kristiansand and leave some of the more rugged mountains behind, we start to see more farms as well as signs of some logging operations. |
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| Title: Arriving at the Kristiansand railway station at what appears to be 10:20 (according to the station clock), many passengers hurry to get on our train. |
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| Title: This photo almost went into the reject file due to the glare and reflection from the train window, but then the more we looked at it, the more it began to look like the work of Tysvær's famous painter Lars Hertervig. |
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| Title: Here in the mountain lake region northeast of Kristiansand, we get this striking photo of still water reflecting a dramatic sky. |
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| Title: Using now our camera with the telephoto lens, we capture a close-up of this couple in a canoe that were barely visible in the previous photo. |
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| Title: Here our train crosses a bridge over a river in what we believe is the Kongsberg area. |
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| Title: Idyllic setting of a farm at water's edge. |
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| Title: More rich farm land as we near Olso. |
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