Month: July 2019

A campsite had to be done today – we had washing coming out of our ears. Still on the same island in the Lofoten but we’ve crossed over to the northern side of it. The trouble with these campsites in

Walked in to Kabelvåg this morning. Billed as a picturesque little town around a harbour; this it was, but it was sooo quiet and it couldn’t really be described as a town. Everywhere feels so safe here. There are bikes

Well, I fell for it again, just three days later! 😂 The old ‘easy hike for families’ codswallop. Our day started with a trip into the town to get diesel, LPG and water. Got some really cheap diesel at £1.33

Warm day again! 🌞😁😎 Walked in to the town late morning. Well, I say town..it was more a string of islands. Very beautiful in parts but also quite industrial boatyardy kind of thing. We treated ourselves to a lunchtime Aperol-spritz

Warm and sunny today – hurray! 😎We did a bit of shopping before we left Sortland this morning as there was a Co op behind us. It’s really depressing …everything is eye wateringly expensive 😢. We were expecting this, but

Really, my husband should know this by now but still after 30 years he thinks I can climb up mountains …on my Bambi legs! A bit of a sleepless night for us as we’d somehow parked in a wind tunnel.

Driven north up the coastal road to Bleik, which has very white sand and turquoise sea…more evident when the sun shines. It was warm and sunny first thing though, so we had a good walk on the beach – it

A very late get up caused by a certain person reading at 5am 🙄! He says I woke him up by shouting ‘Guy!’ – obviously not true. It was grey, windy and raining – yuk! Yes, yes, I know about

Getting very confused as to where we’ve been and where we are going on these islands. As we can’t pronounce most of the names of the places it makes them difficult to remember too. After a little walk this morning,

Last night after chatting with our Norwegian neighbours, they came to fetch us to see the reindeer in the sea. Unfortunately, I couldn’t see them even with binoculars ☹️ and they soon disappeared. Apparently, they are really good swimmers. This