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Europe » Norway » Northern Norway » Sortland July 18th 2018

Langoya and Andoya are islands to the north of the Lofotens - both significantly less touristy, but with similar white sand beaches and striking mountains. Andoya is known for whale and bird watching...neither of which I tried as they weren't cheap and I'd done both recently in Iceland. Langoya is even less well known, but I loved it. The southern coast looks across the water to the Lofotens, and the views are amazing.... read more
Andoya
Andoya, looking over to Langoya
Andenes

Europe » Norway » Northern Norway » Sortland June 14th 2018

Saturday The sun is shining! After doing the regular checks on Dream Catcher Les thinks that we have a slow puncture, we will have to keep a check on it. I washed our walking clothes and hung them inside the back, with the heater on they will dry, but it looks like 'Widow Twanky's laundry'. Oh no it doesn't! Oh yes it does! We're on the road heading to Tromso, we've decided to take a couple of ferries to cut out some miles on roads that we drove up here on. We stopped to fill with water and empty the waste, Les checked the tyre, it was down again! He put more air into it.The scenery looks very green and lush after the barren view of the last few days every so often there are waterfalls ... read more
02 One of the ferries going to Tromso
03 Ferry at Grllefjord
04 Gryllefjord, we camped by the bridge




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