Rica Hotel Honningsvaag Honningsvag

... General Lothar Rendulic's.forces as they were retreating across the northern portion of Norway. By completely destroyed, the pictures in the museum demonstrate that every house, every commercial building, the fishing port and the docks -all went up in smoke: with one exception. The Lutheran Church standing on the hill was spared - no one could tell me whether it was by design or chance.

This church still stands, across from the school and next to a monument ...

... przywitał nas chłopak z Polski, przyjechał, tuż po nas, rowerem na Nordkapp (zajęło mu to cały 1 miesiąc).
Mgła była tak duża, ze z cypla na którym stoi globus nie widzieliśmy nic. Nie zdecydowaliśmy się tez na wędrówkę do rzeczywiście najbardziej oddalonego na północ Europy punktu - z uwagi na pogodę wszyscy nam to odradzali. Sami też się obawiali ...

Onwards to Nordkapp! This is the northern most point of Norway, and of Europe, and was certainly worth the drive. After having our first sight of Reindeer in the morning, we saw loads of them this evening, often in large groups of maybe 20 or more. Unfortunately they aren't the most intelligent of creatures, and insisted on running down the middle of the road for a minute or two before ...

This morning we set off in the opposite direction to yesterday, through Skipsfjoirden, along the road and up the hill in search of a look-out point that we'd seen marked on a map in the cabin. It took us about an hour to get to the top as the road would around the hill and when we got there it was very windy and quite cloudy and began to snow. We almost walked ...

Awoke at around 10am just as it had got as light as it was going to get. At this time of year (winter) the sun never rises above the horizon this far north, so there are few daylight hours. We went for a walk along to Skipsfjorden camping, the closest place of habitation to our cabin, but it was closed for winter. There is a shop here which is usually open in the summer where basic food and supplies can be bought. For us, it was closed. This is a water ...

... to get out of the island. Then, its been a ride of enjoying the landscape with one stop at an halte where I got my feet and some of the water from the Arctic Ocean. We also had to stopped few times for the reindeer asleep by the road, especially in one of the tunnel where a troop of reindeer had gathered to get some cold air, shadows and be out of the mosquitos and therefore fully blocking the streets and traffic. I ...

... point I'm only 2000km from the North Pole :) It's mostly symbolic as it's simply a rock and its most of the time under fog, but I was there, even if the most northern spot is actually a little peninsula more at the west that can be reached by hiking 10km and stretches few hundred meters more north... I didnt care! My joy and thoughtful moment at Nordkapp was complete by sitting and thinking! One life steps! From now on the only thing I can do is go back south ...

... a Sami native with reindeer and a traditional Sami dwelling though we noticed that a smart car was parked outside and suspected that the Sami couple had a much more modern dwelling to live in when the tourists disappeared! On our way to North Cape we saw a lot of reindeer grazing freely on the open common land.

My dear Alexandra, How is life? life never stopped surprising me:)- i found myself answering. what about you ? I haven't found myself yet though I like your poem very much, you have ways to sound so beautiful. If you ever really offended me, then it's because you insult art whenever you write without style ...

... ends at the Cape. we saw number of Sami (indigenous people) with their unique dwellings and their reindeer herds. Unfortunately the coach driver was traveling at a pretty fast speed and it was raining so the shots we tried to take from the windows are pretty poor. We think they should arrange a stop at one of the locales for photo opportunities as well as opportunities for the Sami to sell ...