A picknick in Tvedestrand and Borøya island

It's the second day of Christmas and the streets of Åmli are pretty empty. It was colder than usual at night - the grass and moss around the house were covered in silverfish frost. No sitting at home for us! Exploring ghostish towns is quite fun. Today's destination - Tvedestrand - an almost two hundred year old small town with white wooden houses climbing the shores the fjord of Oksefjorden. It is called a town of books and indeed we could see new and old books shops on every corner. Technically, all of the were closed, but one of them had an outdoors book shelf - there you could leave a certain amount of money in the hole and take the book you like.
There is a tern( a seagull) in the coats of arm of Tvedestrand, but we did see very little of those. But there were plenty of ducks in the harbor - they weren't afraid of us at all, and even started following us when we walked on the pier. I guess they are used to tourists feeding them, and we were almost the only ones at that time.
Cats there are very friendly too. One, the ginger one, was making sure that there aren't too many ducks on the pier. The grey one just came to us and started snuggling to our legs as if we were his owners. It was a pretty nice cat and didn't look homeless at all.
After having a small picknick at the harbor it was time to move forward. Me and my friend's boyfriend were secretely hoping to see a sea. Not a  fjord, but a real open sea. That could happen if we would go to one of the many islands there. But the drive to any of them is really crazy. Well, the views through the car window is amazing, but the drivers have to be really careful. Some roads were fit only for one car in any direction. On one side there would be a steep rock, on the other - either lake or river and that's only few meters away. Anyway, we talked her into driving us to Borøya island without telling all the difficulties that will be waiting for us ahead. And although the trip was stressful, the view from the beach into the sea paid off. There were some people already there, but not too much. The shore was covered with tiny brownish summer houses - so typical to Norway. Almost all of them were empty now. One can really run away from people in Norway.
Having seen the see we called it a day and we were back home before sunset. According to weather forecast, it should be snowing tonight in Åmli. Finally!