Safe Return Doubtful

Day 56 – to Lakshol Scores of websites, tens of guide books, four different online maps, all that research and I stumbled on this most inspirational of places quite by accident. And it’s certainly one I’ll be back to. It’s at the foot of Håfjelltuva mountain and massif, with several…

Day 55 – to Kråfjellet, above Ballangen Bardufoss is a service town on the E6, the main arterial road north south, situated roughly midway between Nordkjosbotn and Narvik. It has a huge motorhome / caravan sales outlet, as big as I’ve seen. It seems a lot of Norwegians have them.…

Day 54 – to Bardufoss Alongside the still fjord waters this was another of the great overnight stops. It was only a couple of kilometres across the fjord to the E6 road running north south down the coast, with the sharp sided huge peaks towering above. There must have been…

Day 53 – to Balsfjord, Norway It may have been a degree warmer this morning, but with the northerly wind stringbas yesterday it was difficult to tell. Could be the fresh snowline on the hills was a few metres higher. It wasn’t enough to hurry me out of bed, and…

Day 52 – at Kilpisjärvi The first snow of the season arrived overnight. Though not settling here at 550 metres asl, it is just a hundred metres or so higher. Even though it was forecast it took me a bit by surprise, probably as it is accompanied by a strong…

Day 50 – to Guolasjávri Lake, Reisa National Park The overnight rain was winding down first thing this morning, but it gave me the excuse of reading a book from one of my favourite writers before heading out, Georges Simenon, and a really good stand-alone novel also, called Old Man…

Day 49 – to Kåfjorddalen, Reisa National Park Just as I sorted the dog’s breakfast at just after 8 am, rain started, so I retreated indoors with coffee and read John Wyndham’s Chocky. I’m not a huge science fiction fan, but this, his last novel from 1968, is really clever.…

Day 48 – at Alta marina I met a guy, a local, walking his dog late last evening and got chatting. Though I steer away from politics usually, we got onto the price of power to homes, and would you believe, ‘levelling-up’ and it’s relevance here in Norway. I did…

Day 47 – to Alta marina Hearing rain on the roof certainly has an effect on the dog’s enthusiasm to get out of bed if not mine. Usually he licks my nose about an hour before our normal stirring time, gets a ‘settle down’ and dozes for the hour. This…