Driving distances between Vonheim Gjestehus and towns and cities in Norway are

3 hours 4 minutes and 133 English miles from Bergen.
6 hours 50 minutes and 282 English miles from Trondheim.
6 hours 11 minutes and 263 English miles from Oslo.

The house is between Skei ( I Jølster) and Førde about three hours drive (including 20 minutes on the ferry accross Sognefjord from Oppdal to Lavik .... cost about 60 krones) from the Fjord Line Terminal from whence the Fjord Line boat MS Fjord Norway sails to and from Newcastle via Stavanger and Haugesund and the MS Atlantic Traveller sails to and from Hanstholm in Denmark via Haugesund and Eggersund in the south of Norway). The house is well served by express buses to and from Bergen, Trondheim and Oslo (look for buses that go to "Førde" and / or "Skei" ........ you'll be getting off between Alhus and Skei). There are airports at Førde (west), Sogndal (south) and Ande (Sandane) (east) which are all about an hour's drive away served by Widerøe airline who have some reasonably priced summer tickets and cheaper last minute online booked fares. They also fly between Stavanger / Torp (Sandefjord / Oslo) and Newcastle and Aberdeen (last minute online booked tickets cost 1100 kroner return ..... just under £100). Ryanair fly into Torp (Sandefjord / Oslo) and Haugesund and Jet2.com fly between Newcastle and Bergen cheaply.

If you're in Jolster and your car needs some work doing on it, I can heartily recommend Jølster Bil (phone +4757726890) who are based in Skei. Like many country garages in Norway, they can cope with anything from a Mercedes to an old tractor and make their own parts if necessary. I had a Freight Rover / Sherpa van that was never released in Norway which broke down here. The mechanic at Sunde Auto in Olden (about an hour away from Helgheim) made most of the bits he needed to fit a new clutch (flown in from the UK at great expense) himself. Norwegian mechanics CAN be more expensive to hire than those elsewhere BUT they are, in my experience, very straight and won't try and con you so you actually get a good job done at a fair price. You can pretty much always trust a Norwegian.

Petrol is generally a bit cheaper in Norway than it is in the UK. Lots of things are a bit more expensive in Norway than in the UK but generally of higher quality. VAT is 24% here and top of the range video cameras etc. bought in Norway and taken abroad as tax free exports are often very good deals. It's the UK that's bad value for money these days.