Blogs from Northern Norway, Norway, Europe - page 31

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Sometimes a story or a travel is best told in pictures. This is that kind of a story. This is the story of a place where I often travel for visiting friends and relatives. This place is a small community that lives mostly of agriculture as live stock and fishing. A place were you can find peace just by enjoying the beauty of your surroundings. A place were you can find beauty in every kind of weather and time of year. The place is Bø i Vesterålen. Its a small place 1 hour and 30 min drive from the city Harstad and 30 min drive from the city Sortland. This is the perfect place to travel if you enjoy being out in the nature in all its glory by: trekking the mountainsides, boating, cycling from one ... read more

Hello Everyone....or as they say here... Hei Hei. (They say it twice very quickly) We left Bergen and made our way to a little place called Rauland in the Telemark area. We stayed in a lodge way up on the Hardanger Mountain Plateau. Please excuse my spelling but we figure you guys probably won't know the difference anyway...:) Our guide, Øivind - whom all the women have fallen in love with by now - told us that every Norwegian is born with their skiis on and a backpack. It's kind of hard on the Mother!! This countryside looks like high mountain terrain. No trees but lots of berry bushes & moss. Cloudberries are the sought after berry here and if you find them, you don't tell anyone where they are. There is supposed to be reindeer ... read more

Hey Leute! Ich habe es ja schon lange vorgehabt, mal ein paar Bilder aus Norwegen zu zeigen. Jetzt ist die Zeit hier fast rum, und ich habe ewig gebarucht, um mal die Muse zu finden, einen passenden Platz im Internet zu finden, um Bilder daraufzustellen..nun hier sind einige. Bis jetzt sind mir 7 verscheidene Wal-und Delfinarten vor die Augen gekommen. Unser Hauptdarsteller ist aber der Pottwal, deshalb dazu ein paar Infos mehr: schaut auf jeden Fall auch mal diese Seiet an, da gibst noch einiges über unsere safaris (auch selbst von uns Gudies geschrieben: whalesafari.com/m/nyh/?mid=m462&id=21&vn=736 Der Pottwal/ ist ein Tier der Extreme: Er ist der größte aller Zahnwale, männliche Pottwale werden durchschnittlich etwa 16 m lang und wiegen 50 Tonnen. Das entspricht etwa dem Gewicht von 10 Afrikanischen Elefanten. Sie haben den größten Kopf und das ... read more

I've got only three letters to describe my last few days: WOW. Let me start from where I last left off. Wednesday morning I went down to the ferry dock in Bodø (pronounced more like 'budda', for the record). I got myself a ticket for the 3 hour trip to Moskenes, a hamlet near the southwestern end of the Lofoten Island chain. I'm in the process of working my way NE back towards the mainland. While I'm now 67 odd degrees north, I still don't get true midnight sun since It's now just over a month past the solstice. Back to light nights though! Anyways. So the ferry comes into the islands, and from a distance they look like a wall of mountains. As we dock, there's a fantastic view of these peaks soaring over the ... read more