Vesterålen

Day 28: Svolvær-Taen (47 km)

Today we left the Lofoten archipelago and entered Vesterålen. Our plan was to have breakfast at a café in Svolvær we had seen last night, but this one opened first at ten, so we went to a bakery instead.

The official cycling route number 1 takes quite a long detour north of Svolvær, probably in order to avoid the main road E10. We didn’t find the traffic too intense the last days, and the route looked nice on the map, so we followed the E10. The route was indeed very nice. It followed the coast most of the time and had steep mountains on both sides.

After 37 kilometres, we took a ferry from Fiskebøl to Melbu. This time we timed it quite badly and missed one departure with a few minutes only. So we had to wait for one and a half hours, which wasn’t a problem though because it was sunny and warm, and we hadn’t planned to go far today anyway.

In Melbu we bought a disposable grill and food and continued to Taen. There is a nice beach here which Kathrine recommended to me. So we stopped here, sat up our tents and went swimming. Then we had a nice dinner. Now we are sitting outside. It is still quite early because we didn’t go far today, so we’ve got enough time for blog, diary and other things.

Tomorrow we will pass through Stokmarknes and Sortland and see how far we get.