Ferries from Ulvik båtkai

Ulvik is a detour rather than a through call. The boat arrives from Kinsarvik at 11:15, runs 7.5 nautical miles on to Eidfjord in 30 minutes, and comes back through at 15:20 and 15:55 — seven sailings a week on each leg until the end of September.

The Kinsarvik leg takes 42 minutes northbound and 40 southbound; the Eidfjord one 30 out and 35 back. None of the four figures matches its pair.

Ulvik sits in a side arm at the head of the fjord, sheltered enough for apple orchards that now supply a cider industry with protected geographical status — Hardanger cider is made to rules of its own. The village was burned by German bombing in 1940 and rebuilt afterwards, which is why a place this old has a modern centre.