Lofoten Archipelago is situated on the Arctic Circle, but the climate here is relatively mild due to the Gulf Stream. The islands steep rocks seem to raise directly from the ocean, while the small pieces of land between the mountains are almost flat, inviting to cycling tours. Lofoten islands are connected by bridges, sometimes extremely narrow and curvy. Here you can hike and climb, paddle a sea kayak, go for a whale safari and much, much more. In the fishing season you can observe wooden constructions with tons of cod hanging on them for drying and spreading well ... a peculiar smell ;)
Sand beaches of Lofoten Island
When I was here in late June, the temperature was much too low to take a bath in the Arctic Ocean (that was the plan), but usually 20 degrees Celsius during summer is not a big surprise. The locals told me that I was extremely unlucky with weather, because before my visit they had two weeks of real warm summer (and later also!). I took a plane to Bodø on the mainland and from there a fast boat to the archipelago, where I rented a car and started to explore the area.In the southern part of the archipelago lies a little village called Å with ca 100 inhabitans.Letter Å is the last letter in Norwegian alphabet and this town really deserves its name - here the E10 road ends (some might say it begins here). Close to Å is located world's biggest maelstrom (Moskenesstraumen), which was inspiration for E.A. Poe and Jules Verne.
Close to Lofoten archipelago lies city of Narvik, known in history for a couple of naval and land battles during the Second World War between the German army and joint forces of Norway, Great Britain, Poland and France.
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