Safe Return Doubtful

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…

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…