We started having lunch and then went on to the fun part. I am not fond of rollercoasters, so this one was not on my agenda. And since there was a que, the other two passed.
Rebekka really liked riding this one, I think she stood in line five times.
And that gave me the opportunity to take some photographs, I think this is the one Ásta would love to try out one day, it will not be with her mother...
Should any of you know this place and think this photograph is strange, it is because I removed a lamppost that was right in front of the black car on the far left. Photoshop is so marvelous. ;)
We went to visit them all in their summerhouse and as we were there the sun decided it was time to show her face, and that she did. Guðrún's little brother looks like he has been in a fight, but I assure you, it is not as serious as it looks.
And around Christmas the two of them will have a little sister or brother. That same Sunday we went for a bite to eat at a little place downtown called Sægreifinn. It is just across the street from Hildur and Gunnar's place and Hildur met us there and then we went over to congratulate Gunnar on his birthday. Here she is with Kjartan who owns Sægreifinn, they are actually related. Oh, and by the way, we went to Sægreifinn first, and then for coffee at Dadda's place.
I spent the last day enjoying myself, not many pictures except this one when we are sailing towards Kristiansund. The Norwegians enjoy sailing in their freetime in all kinds of boats. Old and new, large and small.
I probably should have taken some shots to show you what the ship looks like, but I didn’t. You can find it all on www.hurtigruten.com. It is a fabulous experience to take this cruise and I can’t recommend it strongly enough.
Sandnessjøen's women selling their handiwork down at the harbour and knitting at the same time – not wasting any time.
This weather is of course made for gathering the group again for a shoot. On the shot taken on day one there were only nine of us. Here we are, all twelve gathered on deck nine.
Drive across this bridge and the road leads you to Torghatten, the holey place. But not all the way, you have to walk the last 8 kilometres if you want to go the whole way.
As usual, our captain aims to please and here you have it again. We came there late at night on our 3rd day.
And here, from afar.
The beautiful weather continues - our luck is incredible.
We were waited on hand and foot and here you have 5 of the persons that worked all day through to make life on board a luxurious adventure.
And a couple of pictures of the sunset that night. This first one is taken at 11:15 pm.
And the second one two hours later.
There was one place that I wanted to be on the look-out for today, a place that I didn’t remember on our way north, not until it was too late anyway.
On June 18th in 2002 an Icelandic trawler went down just south of Lofoten. No one died and that is the most important thing. But there was much written and said about this accident and it even made the courts in
She went down in Nappstraumen south of Lofoten, out there in the distance. We were there just after 10 pm.
The crew on MS Trollfjord knew of the case and said it was not an easy place to navigate as the nautical maps of the area are not too good.
As you all probably know, it does not get dark at night in the summertime when you are this far north. In the wintertime it is quite the opposite; for a long period of time, there is darkness. No wonder Kirkenes was the first Norwegian town to put up electric streetlights, in 1891 actually. Well, Kirkenes was yesterday. Today, ridiculously early, Pia and I climbed on a bus and headed for Nordkapp /
On our way to
Just before we reached the ship, it started pouring again and as a matter of fact it had rained on the ship all the six hours we had been away in much better weather.
Later that day we visited Oxfjord and thousands of birds appeared when the captain blew the horn
Late to bed, again. I wanted to see if I could catch something good in Tromsø, with my Nikon. Not half bad :).
