Coast and boathouse environment at Bømlo

siggjo (64)in #norway • 5 years ago

On the pictures are boats and boathouses at the Straumfjord at Bømlo.
The first boat is a fishing boat. The other boats on the photos are recreational boats. Some of the pictures show a typical boathouse that dominated the coastal environment a few years back.
Today, rorbu (a small house) dominate in the coastal environment. These houses built as a small apartment where people can live and stay, especially during the holidays.

#coast #sea #boats #photography

5 years ago in #norway by siggjo (64)

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barski (73) 5 years ago

Since recent times, this experience began to adopt in the post-Soviet space. I lived in Moldova for about seven years. There, on reservoirs, they began to arrange similar recreation and rural tourism bases. Relax, fishing and swimming, three pleasures in one bottle. Beautiful places. Thank you so much for such a colorful review! I see houses look like temporary structures. In these houses is not too cold in the harsh Norwegian winter?

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siggjo (64) 5 years ago

Many thanks for the comment where you draw comparisons with how they have built recreation buildings for tourists in Moldavia @Barski
You are quite right that some of these buildings in the pictures are not well suited for accommodation in a cold winter.
An example of this is in the last picture where the three buildings by the sea are old boathouses that are not intended for people living in.

The white house on the first picture has been built as a year-round bus and is almost a hundred years old.
I want to publish a new blog where I have a primary focus on more modern buildings intended as a holiday home for themselves or for rent for tourists.

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singa (69) 5 years ago

What an interesting name for houses.
I've never heard of them before.
Thanks that told and showed pictures of the small houses @Siggjo

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siggjo (64) 5 years ago

I will publish a new article where I will have more pictures of modern rorbu @Singa
See also this link for an explanation of this interesting name. https://nordnorge.com/no/?News=59&artlang=en

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singa (69) 5 years ago

Thank you very much for the link. It was very interesting for me to learn about the origin of the this word.

The first part of the word RORBU stems from the Norwegian word “Ro”, to row. For centuries, fishermen travelled to the area in their rowing boats – it was not until the nineteenth century that motors were added to fishing boats. In the early years, then, people literally “rowed fish”.

Even after three generations of motorboats, the Norwegian still speak of “ro fiske” (row fish) to refer to participating in a fishing expedition. So it seems likely that “Rorbu” means “the house where fishermen lived while they rowed fish”.