Where to stay in Eivindvik
Most beds in Eivindvik gather in the village centre near Gulen kirke, where a few guest rooms and holiday houses stand within reach of the fjord shore and the quay. The centre suits visitors who want the church and the water close at hand. It is the natural base.
Out among the islands toward Mjømna kirke, scattered cabins and rorbu-style rooms serve travellers touring the seaward parishes of Gulen by boat and car, a base among the skerries of the western part of Vestland. Beds run thin there. Through the farms and along the fjords beyond the centre, holiday houses and farm stays offer a quieter night on the shores of western Norway.
Stock is limited throughout. Reserve well ahead in the warm season, when what visitors reach this part of Vestlandet take up the few rooms Eivindvik holds.
About Eivindvik
What is Eivindvik known for?
Eivindvik sits at the head of a fjord in the western part of Vestland, the centre of Gulen and the gathering point for the country around. Gulen kirke stands at the heart of the village, the parish church that marks the old centre and gives Eivindvik its place on the shore. The church anchors the centre.
Out among the islands Mjømna kirke serves the seaward parishes of Gulen, and the two churches together hold a municipality strung along the fjords and skerries of this corner of western Norway.
What are the main landmarks in Eivindvik?
Gulen kirke stands at the centre of Eivindvik. The parish church marks the head of the fjord and gives the village its fixed point, the chief sight of the place and the gathering church of the municipality of Gulen. It holds the centre.
Out among the islands Mjømna kirke serves the seaward parishes, the church of the skerries and the scattered island settlements along the fjords of this corner of Vestland in western Norway.
What is the history of Eivindvik?
Eivindvik grew as the meeting place of the fjord country in the western part of Vestland. The head of the fjord drew the settlements together, and Gulen kirke rose to serve the people of the parish as the gathering church of the district through the long centuries on this coast of western Norway. The fjord head held the centre.
Farming and fishing carried the country, the islands and shores worked for the sea while the inland farms held the slopes above the water. Eivindvik took on the role of centre for the municipality of Gulen, the administrative and church point for a country strung along the fjords and skerries of Vestlandet. Mjømna kirke served the seaward parishes among the islands as the settlements held their churches through the changing years.
The village kept its place at the fjord head, gathered around Gulen kirke, the steady centre of a municipality spread across the fjords and islands of the western part of Vestland.
Where is Eivindvik?
Eivindvik lies at the head of a fjord in the western part of Vestland, in western Norway. The village gathers on the level shore at the inner end of the fjord, Gulen kirke at its centre and steep slopes rising behind toward the inland heights. Fjord ahead, ridge behind.
The municipality of Gulen breaks westward into islands and sounds, the seaward parish of Mjømna kirke set among the skerries that scatter across the mouth of the fjords in this corner of Vestlandet.
What is the climate of Eivindvik?
Eivindvik has the wet, mild maritime climate of the western Norwegian fjords. Winters stay cool and damp at the fjord head rather than hard, the water holding deep frost and lasting snow off the low shore while the inland ridges above Gulen gather the cold. Summers run short and green.
Rain off the Atlantic drives in among the islands and up the fjords of Vestland through every season, the wind off the water keeping the shore around Gulen kirke fresh under the long northern daylight of the western Norway summer.
How do you get to Eivindvik?
Eivindvik sits at the fjord head off the main routes in the western part of Vestland. Travellers reach it by the shore roads and fjord crossings that thread the islands of Gulen, the way running in to the centre near Gulen kirke. Most come by car and boat.
The roads and ferries of the fjord carry the traffic between the centre and the seaward parish of Mjømna kirke among the islands, while the wider airports and hubs of Vestlandet handle the longer journeys of visitors reaching this coast of western Norway from farther off.