10/3/2011 It was bright and sunny this morning when I got up….for all of about 15 minutes! So I decided I’d try and get to Skrova. Skrova, which is about 20 minutes by ferry from Svolvaer, offers the best views of the Lofoten Wall, the line of mountains that stretch nearly the whole length of… Read more »
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8/3/2011 Well I woke up this morning and it was raining cats and dogs. I was debating whether to go to the island of Skrova or not but when I got to the top of the road, I decided not to. It was miserable weather and there was a storm forecast for later in the… Read more »
6/3/2011 I had hoped that Bybus would be running their Adventure Tour to Hov, on Gimsoy. This takes you out to Hov, a remote part of the island of Gimsoy, which is supposed to be a great place to see the Northern Lights. They do storytelling in an amphitheatre and they have accommodation there, right beside… Read more »
6/3/2011 Finally, after waiting for 3 weeks to find out if the Bybus Winter Panorama tour was going ahead, I got word from Bybus that they were going ahead with the tour and the day came. I and two Israeli guys were picked up at 9.15am outside the Thon Hotel, in Svolvaer. We drove over… Read more »
5/3/2011 I found my way to the school by 9.45am and there were quite a few people dancing already: about 20 people, all dancing in couples. The teacher was in the middle of the floor, with one of the women dancers, showing everybody how to do a step. This dancing was a type of Swing… Read more »
4/3/2011 I got talking to Gair this morning and he showed me some of his photos. They’re great. He teaches photography and concentrates on it in the wintertime when the Sjohuscamp is quiet. I was telling him that I was planning on going to Leknes and he advised me to go to Henningsvaer instead as… Read more »
3/3/2011 Well it wasn’t stormy anymore but it was bloody snowing – heavily! There was already a couple of inches of snow on the ground, in places where people hadn’t walked yet and it was only 9.30am. I got up and had breakfast. I needed to go to the library to check my emails. The… Read more »
2/3/2011 Svolvaer Sjohuscamp on Parkgata, is a self catering establishment with a number of rooms, accommodating between 2 and 6 people per room, in bunk bed style sleeping arrangements. Every room looks out over the water and you could sit in, what I called the conservatory, have breakfast and if you’re lucky to catch some… Read more »
1/3/2011 The first leg of my four flight journey was from Amsterdam to Stockholm at 10.20am, not too early, thank God. I was up at 7am, had breakfast and headed off at 7.45am. I had already checked in online but I had to check in a bag. With the cold weather and snow that was… Read more »
24/09/2010 You might think, why in the name of God would I want to go to a hard to get to, small group of islands, off the west coast of Norway? Well, I’d heard that the scenery was supposed to be stunning there and that it was also a great place to see the Northern… Read more »
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