Tønsberg is believed to be the oldest city in Norway. We’ve visited it a number of times in the past. It’s a lovely city with a historical castle hill and an archipelago, where the popular Verdens ende (“World’s end”) is situated. This entry, however, is about our geocaching tour on one of its surrounding islands, Husøy, last spring. Øy is the norwegian word for “island”, while Hus means “house”. It was a random-just-want-to-get-out-of-the-house destination, which took around 1.05 hours of driving.

Here’s a Google map showing the island and the surrounding areas. Husøy is starred:

The little island is reachable by bridge, right after a quick pass through it’s neighboring bigger island, Foynland. Husøy is in southeastern coast of Norway. It has a church and a school, and a population of around 900.

The place has a Geocaching trail, so I thought that it would be refreshing to take a walk there. It was still very cold, but the water was still and the sun was shining brightly. We followed the coastline and encountered sandy, pebbly, rocky, marshy, muddy, snowy and normal ground during the walk.

Early signs of spring was visible, although some parts of the trail was still covered in ice/snow. There was a diving board and many boat parking platforms around Husøy. I also saw a some pebbles with weird patterns. Super cool 🙂

And then, there’s the old ship. The local attached it to the dock with cement. The rest of the trail was amazing! We found 4 caches that day.

Here’s the church and the manhole cover with the city seal. It has an inscription that says “Tønsberg: Norges eldste by” (Norway’s oldest city).

And on the way home, we got some chocolate chip buns and hot coffee – the perfect pair on a cold weather. After April, I stopped drinking coffee (except for decaf from time to time). It’s has been 63 days now since I had a fresh cup of real coffee. I miss it 🙂

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