Tour d’honneur to Nordkapp

Day 39: Honningsvåg-Nordkapp (35 km)

On our last day today we only had a short distance to cover. Since we stayed out late on the music festival yesterday as well, we had a very relaxed morning and didn’t start cycling before eleven o’clock.

The first few kilometres from Honningsvåg were flat until we came to a big camping site. From there a winding road took us up to 300 metres. We thought that there would be a plateau and that the road to Nordkapp would be rather flat, but that was not the case. We rode downhill almost back to sea level again and had a constant up and down until we reached the final ascent to the North Cape.

We reached Nordkapp at two o’clock. Here we took some photos, opened a bottle of sparkling wine and had reindeer stew for lunch. We wanted to take a bus back to Honningsvåg. They only go a few times per day, so we had enough time to relax and took a bus back at five.

Today we stay at a hostel which looks like it was a hospital before. We enjoyed dinner at the same restaurant as yesterday, and I am back now at the Oggasjakka festival while Wolf went back to the hostel. Our ship leaves at 5:45 tomorrow, so it will be a short night.