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We continue towards Andenes. Tomorrow is our whale safari, and for this reason, we want to be on-site a day in advance. The weather is perfect for hiking today, the sun is...

Storm above the Aquarium

Unfortunately, I have to pause hiking again. My right knee is acting up. Luckily, there are plenty of alternatives on the Lofoten Islands to make up for this handicap. We are...

In order not to strain my knee too much, today's hike - the weather is quite decent - is planned as an easy tour. It leads from the beach near Haukland over a mountain ridge to...

Path to Nesland

Rainy day - and another museum day. One hour's drive from our campsite is the village of Borg, where there is a museum about Vikings. The journey there takes longer than Google...

Drying racks for fish

Pothole detected and fixed

Today is the day, we will cross the sixty-sixth parallel and move north of the Arctic Circle. The goal of today's stage is the Saltstraumen, the world's most powerful tidal...

It's an early start again, we have a lot planned for today. A cave exploration and a hike to the Svartisen Glacier. The practical thing is that both natural wonders are located...

Today we start early, we have a full schedule. The first point on this schedule is of course Torghatten. This mountain is famous for its characteristic shape, resembling a hat,...

Today we visit the Namsskogan Family Park. This is a kind of zoo where you can see the wild animals of Scandinavia, with a few activities for children on the side. Basically,...

We continue northward. We will only pass through Trondheim as sightseeing in cities is time-consuming and exhausting, not to mention the hassle of parking. No, we will focus on...

After a restful night in the heated apartment, the weather has calmed down. Instead of heavy rain like throughout the night, it is now only cloudy. We are satisfied with that...

In earlier times, Bud was mainly dependent on fishing. The main export was dried cod, which is also known as "klippfisk" or "stockfish". The name "klippfisk" comes from the fact...

Continuing towards Kristiansund via E136

The morning starts just like the previous evening ended - with rain, rain, and more rain. The sky pours water over us incessantly, in different intensities. The visibility is...

It's time to make some more kilometers to the north, eventually we want to reach the Lofoten islands. We leave the camp at Vangsmjøse and continue driving on the E16 towards...

Unexpected car inspection

Today we leave the Hardangerfjord behind. There is so much more to see and so many hikes to conquer, but on a four-week trip to the far north, one should not expect to see...

For this day, a hike on Europe's largest plateau, the Hardangervidda, is planned. Its area is 8000 km² and the average elevation is 1200 m - 1400 m. During our first hike from...

Regen. Man weiß ja gemeinhin, dass es gerade an der Küste und in der Nähe davon in Norwegen ziemlich viel regnet. Heute ist das hier am Sørfjord der Fall, aus diesem Grund...

The next morning we set off again, heading east towards the Hardangerfjord, or more precisely, a branch of it called the Sørfjord. The route to the Hardangerfjord is an...

The wake-up call the next morning is the loudspeaker announcement that passengers heading to Stavanger should please get ready and vacate their cabins by 6 o'clock (or something...

On this day, too, it's not going to be Aalborg, why drive back to the city when you have the finest sandy beach all around? Therefore, we decide to drive north towards Hirtshals...

Goodbye Hamburg, it was nice being with you. Next stop Denmark, specifically Aalborg and then Hirtshals. The journey seems to fly by for me as a passenger. The mixture of heat,...

The Central Committee has decided that we should ride our bikes to Hamburg instead of taking public transport, which wants to impose its rigid times on us again. 35 km according...

Departure towards Hamburg