This is how you have to dress up when the cold June-wind hits you...My summer in Vesterålen started with a car trip from Tromsø to Sortland together with my friends from my München studies: Klaus (A) and Merel (NL):
The first glimpse of the midnight sun through the front window.
We went to the beautiful 2,5 km long beach of Bleik, one of Norways largest beaches!To the right you can see the off shore bird mountain where over 100.000 puffins live.
You have to go bathing here, no matter how cold the water is! Above the brave "tourists" you can see some of the high, spectacular mountains of Andøys westside!
Do me and my sister happen to look a bit like vampires? Blame the Eclipse-movie premiere that we watched in the middle of the night. Yes, it IS sun here also at 3 am!
My next adventure this summer was a bicycle trip to Ingemannhytta in the Sørfjord together with my sister Ida! Unfortunately we aren't very good map readers, so the "nice, broad forest road" happened to be a steep hiking route 1-2 km high up in the mountains. Ohh, how we dragged our bikes through the rough terrain and up to the cabin!
Luckily we met no one. Because we couldn't quite explain what we did with our city bikes in the middle of nowhere...
This picture is taken on one of my many bike trips over the bridge to my work at the tourist information for Vesterålen. Maybe you see my office somewhere on the picture?
Our next hiking trips were without bikes! This picture is taken just before we start on a nice, little walk at Jennestad, above the old trading center. Ida is fighting with the birds, practicing her kung fu kicks!We also did the whole roundtrip "Dronningruta" (the Queens Route) between Nyksund and Stø (15 km), but I don't have any pictures from that trip, although it was WONDERFUL!
7 hours (included a café visit in Nyksund) and a beautiful view!
It was supposed to be a warm up for our next trip, to the Møysalen:
But we'll save that one for later. The summer doesn't last forever, and now my sister's flown southwards again. Møysalen is Lofoten and Vesterålens highest mountain, 1262 m, and is the mountain to the left.Under it sails the Hurtigruten - and the ship will soon bring me back to Tromsø again.
