20. 6. 2023 - 58 km / 293 hm Melbu - Sortland

With yesterday's ferry crossing from Fiskebøl to Melbu, we left Lofoten and have now arrived in Vesterålen. Today's stage takes us to Sortland.  We decide to take the extra 10 km on the side road to avoid the main traffic. A wise idea. The number of vehicles on this 25 km section we can easily count on our hands. The route has little incline, the weather is simply perfect (not too cold, not too hot, little wind and most of all dry). We count most of the altitude meters in the climbs over the high bridges.

The narrow coastal strip in front of the mountain flanks seems to be good agricultural land. But we learn from a local that it is only sparsely used. Here, too, the lion's nest still flourishes in large numbers. It seems that our travel speed is in step with the vegetation development.

As so often in the last weeks we meet fascinating characters with the same geographical destination as us. We learn that "man" can also get to the North Cape on foot. The "crazy man" does not carry his luggage on his back, but pulls it along comfortably in his little wagon since the beginning of the year.

Altitude meters are made over the bridges

"Man" can also walk ...