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Sunday Jul 29, 2018 #
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(rest day)
On what was possibly Narvik's hottest ever night (probably around 22), I didn't get to sleep until sometime after midnight. Woke up with some soreness on the right side of the back (not the central location where it usually is), and a token attempt at a run suggested that the short run I'd had planned wasn't worth the effort.
Narvik itself isn't unknown territory for me - we passed through on the way to Nordkapp in 1989 (in fact I think I stayed in the same hotel) - but the rest of the day was devoted to exploring new territory, en route to, and in the eastern part of, the Lofotens. I've been led to believe that the west end is the really spectacular bit but there was plenty of spectacle to be had where I went today - an almost endless combination of mountain, lake and sea underneath a hot blue sky. (I'll need to wait to see the official numbers, but I suspect today's temperatures were above pre-2018 records, although mostly falling short of the records set a week and a bit ago).
On the road, there seemed to be more people leaving the islands than entering them (probably because it was a Sunday and they were heading off to catch planes back to their home in time to restart work on Monday) - this doesn't always make for comfortable driving on the narrower bits of road (most will move as wide as they can but there are always one or two who play chicken). There are still plenty of people here, as evidenced by the tents (probably at least 50 of them) pitched in all sorts of unlikely places on the approach to Henningsvaer - surprised the authorities haven't put a stop to this, notwithstanding Norway's general right to camp on public land. It probably wouldn't be such a comfortable experience in a more typical Lofoten summer.
Narvik itself isn't unknown territory for me - we passed through on the way to Nordkapp in 1989 (in fact I think I stayed in the same hotel) - but the rest of the day was devoted to exploring new territory, en route to, and in the eastern part of, the Lofotens. I've been led to believe that the west end is the really spectacular bit but there was plenty of spectacle to be had where I went today - an almost endless combination of mountain, lake and sea underneath a hot blue sky. (I'll need to wait to see the official numbers, but I suspect today's temperatures were above pre-2018 records, although mostly falling short of the records set a week and a bit ago).
On the road, there seemed to be more people leaving the islands than entering them (probably because it was a Sunday and they were heading off to catch planes back to their home in time to restart work on Monday) - this doesn't always make for comfortable driving on the narrower bits of road (most will move as wide as they can but there are always one or two who play chicken). There are still plenty of people here, as evidenced by the tents (probably at least 50 of them) pitched in all sorts of unlikely places on the approach to Henningsvaer - surprised the authorities haven't put a stop to this, notwithstanding Norway's general right to camp on public land. It probably wouldn't be such a comfortable experience in a more typical Lofoten summer.