From lovely Lofoten to idleness in Bodø

We´ve arrived in Limbo , sorry, Bodø - waiting for the car, which is still in open sea. The shipping company has given us a vague promise that we´ll get it tomorrow - sometime not too long after lunch...

Luckily the weather is gorgeous, like it has been for the last five days (a little windy sometimes, but blue skies all through Lofoten).


OK, a quick report from our trip through Lofoten:

The Lofoten peninsula is a beautiful area - with ragged mountaintops and long, pristine beaches. Something else that I couldn´t stop looking at were the fields of wild flowers, but that might just be me, after a year of arctic tundra.




After Svolvær we headed straight for Hov on the Gimsøy island, where we stayed for two nights.


At Hov we met these two,


and their foul-smelling grandfather, Herkules (OK, only the kid´s, I suppose (no, not my kids)).


We hiked, barbecued, bathed and fished. A spectacular place, and lovely summerdays (we snicker a little when we see these areas being promoted as "arctic").



The sunny days continued in Nusfjord, where we went next and stayed on for another two nights.


Here´s the cabin (rorbu) we stayed in.


Rather primitive, but comfortable.


More hiking,


and fishing.


Very successful fishing, actually.


We reckoned the biggest coalfish (sei) to be around 6 kilos and the smaller 4. Both of them were handed over to the local restaurant, and they were very pleased.


Nusfjord is extremely beautiful, and we can definitely recommend it. The only drawback must be all the other tourists, but it´s kind of silly to complain about them, I suppose. That goes for all of Lofoten, it´s full of tourists - and surprisingly many young ones. We got the impression that Lofoten is the "cool" place to go. For Norwegians and foreigners alike.

Yesterday we spent on the ferry from Moskenes to here - and here we´ll be staying for another day, it seems. In limbo...