Bert!
Along for the journey were Matt and Sarah, our American buddies. 10 hours of driving later, and we were cruising along roads like this:
It was spectacular.
That night, it was a bit cloudy, but that didn't stop us having our first midnight sun. I think the strangest thing was that after living in Lulea, it didn't seem strange at all to have sun at midnight.
On the beach in the midnight sun.
The next day, we headed to the end of the islands, to a town simply called Å. We had a great time climbing the sides of the mountains at the end of the road.
In the afternoon, we were driving home when disaster struck. The spare tyre, which was already on our car, popped and we were left stranded with no tyre to replace it with. Whats more, we had a jack but no wrench. Luckily, we were only 500 meters from a town, and the first shop was a mechanic. He changed the flat we had in the boot, and we were in business.
There are worse places to have broken down.
With Bert running beautifully again, we headed for a town called Henningsvaer. It was typical of the towns in Lofoten and I think this photo sums in up perfectly:
Henningsvaer.
That night, we had proper midnight sun!
It was a great trip with amazing scenery, good company, and the best car ever!
For all those following at home. Bert is currently broken and we don't know if he will run again.
Wow.
ReplyDeleteThat is all. :P