Safe Return Doubtful

I enjoy changing weather conditions, and for most of my life have lived near west coasts where the weather is shaped by what comes from the ocean. During my 5 years in Santiago there was little point in looking at a weather forecast, for 8 months a year the weather…

I left Inndyr and headed towards the ferry at Bodø, I had a booking to the island of Værøy, southwest of the Lofoten islands as a stop off on the way there. Midway through the 90 minute journey, mostly on the picturesque Highway 17, I had spotted a hike I…

I had expected others at Bremnessanden beach on Melöy with it being a Friday. The guy I met yesterday at the lake said it was a popular place, it was easy to see why. Late in the afternoon a woman arrived with her three young sons, 6, 4 and 2…

The van is really lapping up the midnight sun, which will be with us until 30th July. My battery has never been so happy. It’s been almost cloudless today, until the late afternoon when some wisps have rolled in, but they only obstruct the sun momentarily. Less wind also today,…

The van wound its way around the fjords a bit further north this morning, with the help of the Agskardet ferry to the small island of Furøy, linked to the mainland by a bridge. I camped here on my bikepacking journey south from Tromso in July 2016. I just looked…

The beach at Sandvika on the north coast of Gjerøya, recommended to me by Anders the farmer on the island, was an excellent place for a couple of days. Gjerøya is 9 square kilometres in size, and its year-round population, which is almost all based on the harbour on the…

After a chat with a couple of the locals, the old guy who gave me route information yesterday, and another guy with his young daughter who was working on his boat, I left the beach we had spent three days at and drove a couple of kilometres to the north…