46 km, 2:31 cycling, average speed 18, km/h, total ascent 404 m, net ascent 0 m
Almost bad conscience for not having a "real working day". But, as I have plenty of time anyway, it is better to split up in two short rides than hanging around in
Honningsvåg several days.
At the camping in Olderfjord, the weather did not look too bad, but once outside and moving north, it was really cold (5 degrees), windy and wet. For the first time I started to become really fed-up, and it was ok to stop early for the day instead of shivering through. In fact having trouble keeping really warm. The landscape is barren and desolate, I wonder that anybody could chose to live here. And you might say to bike here - but that is only once and not a lifetime!
The hotel in Repvåg is rather strange. Operated by Russians (should we boycot it?); a large, actually nice dining room with artefacts from fishing, but empty, cold and eery. It seems they try to save money on heating. The room is not very warm either, I have put on all my clothes and a blanket around me, still my fingers are ice cold.
By the way, Tromsø set a rain record for June - surely we are not really lucky this time.
22:00 update: they put some wood in the stove, we sat close to it, the food was surprisingly good, so all in all it became a nice evening. "We" is my new Dutch friend Thei and me.
Almost bad conscience for not having a "real working day". But, as I have plenty of time anyway, it is better to split up in two short rides than hanging around in
Honningsvåg several days.
At the camping in Olderfjord, the weather did not look too bad, but once outside and moving north, it was really cold (5 degrees), windy and wet. For the first time I started to become really fed-up, and it was ok to stop early for the day instead of shivering through. In fact having trouble keeping really warm. The landscape is barren and desolate, I wonder that anybody could chose to live here. And you might say to bike here - but that is only once and not a lifetime!
The hotel in Repvåg is rather strange. Operated by Russians (should we boycot it?); a large, actually nice dining room with artefacts from fishing, but empty, cold and eery. It seems they try to save money on heating. The room is not very warm either, I have put on all my clothes and a blanket around me, still my fingers are ice cold.
By the way, Tromsø set a rain record for June - surely we are not really lucky this time.
22:00 update: they put some wood in the stove, we sat close to it, the food was surprisingly good, so all in all it became a nice evening. "We" is my new Dutch friend Thei and me.
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| Mostly a nice tail wind, but around the bays we needed to go west a couple of times, where you get the wind right in front. Makes you realize how lucky you are to bike to the north. Against the wind I had a hard time keeping 10-11 km/h, and sometimes completeyly stopped. Feeling sorry for the poor buggers that to the other way, quite a few in fact. |
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| A little bit up and down, but nothing high. Looking forward to the climbs today to get warm |
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| Grey, eery, desolate |
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| Still a patch of this winter's snow - at 40 m above sea level! |
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| Finally, the municipality of Nordkapp. Morsom kommunevåpen (sorry, can't find the English tranlation; it is about the "mark" of Nordkapp) |
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| Repvåg, rescue training |
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| More Repvåg |
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| The (cold) hotel rooms |
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| The dining room of Repvåg hotel. No need to make reservations. |
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