Safe Return Doubtful

The peninsula at Bø was the site of a Nazi coastal battery from the Second World War. Following the British attacks on Narvik in 1940 and on the Lofoten Islands the following year, the Germans were determined to prevent further raids in this vulnerable region. The fort here guarded the…

We had an hour or so out at Styrkesnes before moving on. It will be one of the memorable places I have stayed over the years. On a flat beach when the tide is out there’s a good fifty metres to explore. Over the last weeks there has been no…

My plan was to leave this morning and drive a couple of hours north. But the exhilaration of awakening in such a place made me unsure. The Danes have an expression, solvitur ambulado, meaning, it is solved by walking. It’s so true, and for much more important problems than deciding…

My main reason for visiting Styrkesnes was to hike to the abandoned mountain village of Hauan / Jordbru, 5 kilometres away. Local folklore speaks of a supernatural presence that has been around ever since the three farmsteads were vacated in the 1960s. People lived there since the 1600s, but there…

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…