Today we started to the southern end of Lofoten to do some hiking in the mountains. This was very pleasant and refreshing, especially since there were no people out in nature. So we had the feeling of being all alone and undisturbed. This made us feel very relaxed – and it didn’t matter that the kids were frolicking around loudly and having their usual sibling squabbles at a deafening volume.
Still, we managed to drop a berkel stone into the rocks together. There again we were a good team and everything was peaceful.
On the way back to the car we discovered a sign to a waterfall. Apparently we had missed it on our tour. So we climbed back up the mountain to discover the waterfall. If you now think that we discovered something like the Niagara Falls, you are wrong. Instead, it was something more like a stream of the size, but this water has power and rushes quite loud and unstoppable from the mountains down into the valley. Here we have uploaded some videos about it for you, so that you can get a small impression of it yourself and judge whether this water can really be called a “waterfall”. We are of the unanimous opinion: yes, this is definitely a waterfall.
Fortunately, nobody fell into this ice-cold water. And even Theo felt no desire to bathe in it or even to put his feet in it.
It could have been a peaceful and unexciting day. That’s why we also made a driver change on the way back. Normally, Pia always drives – she is very safe and confident with our car, while I (Peter) am more comfortable with the camera, dashcam and cell phone and enjoy the view.
The roads here in Norway – especially on the Lofoten – are very narrow and can be compared with pass roads in the Alps – so not for sissies. In a long curve a camper came towards us. And I thought, “This is going to be really tight” and – crash – the wing mirror was already off. The camper just drove on as if nothing had happened. First we got excited about this inconsiderateness. In Germany this would be called “hit and run”. But soon we realized that the excitement only hurt ourselves and the vacation mood. So we went to the next store, which was some kind of hardware store. There we bought armor tape to reattach the worn out outside mirror (the one on the driver’s side, of course) to some extent. That with the worn out outside mirrors seems to be endemic here, because the salesman grinned, when he pressed the armor tape into our hand, because we were probably already the 125th persons, who asked in this month for armor tape because of worn out outside mirror. There you see again – the Norwegians are much more relaxed than we are.
Tomorrow we want to take the ferry to Bodo to visit Glomfjord. We hope to go this time. The counter was already closed at the time we arrived at the port. Fingers crossed for us tomorrow then. We will definitely be there early.