Category: Islands of the North Atlantic
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Gjogv and Funningur: big quiet day of sightseeing
Simple plan today. Late start, easy drive to Gjogv, right up at the northern end of Eysturoy, the island north and east of the one we’re staying on. Stop in at Eiði for a look on the way, and Funningur on the way back. Lunch at the cafe at Gjogv, because, being “touristy” by Faroe…
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Æðuvík and Oyndarfjørður instead of Kalsoy
Had a lovely breakfast at Frida Kafehus again, and consequently found the queue for the Kalsoy ferry to be beyond full. Not even sure if a second service would have been enough. So Kalsoy and it’s one lane tunnels would be crowded with traffic, perhaps. Changed our plans to explore the southern reaches of Eysturoy,…
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Bergen
Made it to Bergen as expected, yesterday. Quite late in the evening, so we just had dinner at the hotel restaurant, watched a bit of TV and went to bed. This morning we had hotel breakfast, which had lots of everything except for the two actually essential things: good coffee and a croissant. The mackeral,…
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Arrived Svolvær, Svinøya Rorbuer
There was a little bit of frought around the flights today: the fact that our booking on WF612 from Bergen to Bodø had been rescheduled from 8:35 to 10:30 and re-named the WF614, since we made it, meant that we couldn’t check-in on-line, and had to go to the counter. Also, it turns out that…
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Kabelvåg, Henningsvær and Havern-ish
Packed up from the Robuer in the morning, and headed into town in search of a coffee. The man at the front desk had suggested a couple of places near the square might open at nine, in twenty minutes. Since the drive into town lasts three minutes, that gave us time for some sight-seeing before…
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Vikings
We started the day, as we do most, in search of coffee. Tragically, our best hope was at the cafe at the Viking museum, which didn’t open until 10:00. So we took the long way round, against satnav directions, via the slow north road. More picturesque that way, too. Doubly tragic, the Viking Museum cafe…
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The end of the road: Å (pronounced “awe”)
Slow start, this morning, as our lovely Rorbu in Balstad was just too comfortable to leave, but leave we did, and headed back to the shops at Leknes for a few more provisions and a little cash money to give to the curator of the museum at Sennesvik that we had been unable to pay…
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Vote for boat
First day in a while that we haven’t had to pack up and move in the morning, and instead of poking people into early wakefulness, I seem to have let us all sleep in. So with a hard 2PM deadline to meet our boat driver for a booked visit to the local maelstrom, we got…
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Golf and crab
We saved a cleaning fee at the lodging this morning, by doing it ourselves, which involved a bit more actual work than we’ve been used to, beyond the gathering of our stuff and fitting it into the car. Vacuuming, for instance. All of this was brightened by our cunning plan of going straight back to…
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Back to Svolvær, after much pleasant meandering
We started west from Lofoton Links, but veered north to see what was at the northern end of the road at Gimsøya. That turned out to be a nice little fishing harbour. The region down the western side of Gimsøya is a bit different from what we’d seen elsewhere in the Lofotens. Instead of craggy…