Sat
13 Nov
2021
Considering the weather, this was definitely the perfect day for a visit to the Lofotr Viking museum in Borg on the Lofoten island of Vestvågøy. Considering the wind, a bus ride was certainly better than a ship voyage today, and looking at the rain, a bus ride was certainly better than hiking today … so that worked well 🙂
The Lofotr Viking museum is really interesting, including a beautiful reconstruction of a 83 m long chieftain’s house. We were lucky to get a guided tour by Christian, a true viking and as powerfully eloquent as corona proof. Altogether it was almost tempting to try viking life here for a while … well, almost, I quite like living in our modern times and I wouldn’t exchange it for a probably much shorter and definitely much harder life in the 8th or 9th century.
And it was not “only” the museum. My personal highlight was the sighting of an adult male elk near the road on Vestvågøy – the traffic situation didn’t allow us to stop, unfortunately – and then we did several stops to enjoy the Lofoten scenery on the way back on Vestvågøy, Gimsøy and Austvågøy. Beautiful landscapes, especially as the clouds kindly kept their water during those moments.
In the end, we still had time for a visit in the famous Lofoten aquarium in Kabelvåg.
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