Britt-Arnhild's House in the Woods

More from Lofoten

I have promised to post more photos from our trip to Lofoten, and here are a few.

We started from Trondheim after lunch on Thursday. To reach the Lofoten islands we have to drive about 850 kilometers, and then there is a two hours drive. So on Thursday we slept over at a hotel in Fauske. And then the next day we only had a couple of hours to drive to reach Hammarøy, the island where Knut Hamsund lived as a small boy, and the ferry.

The weather was quite nice. A little cold, but sunny and no wind, so the ferry trip was a pleasure. We spent alot of it out on the deck . Since Lofoten are islands you have to come there by sea, and therefore you also can see the beautiful Lofoten Wall as the mountains are called. It as an amazing sight when the weather is nice, though I find the ferry trip quite terrible when the wind is bad :-(

My brother and his family live in Lofoten, and this time we went there because of the confirmation of my niece Gunhild. She was confirmanted in Borge church, where my brother si the pastor.

The old Borge church burnt down in the 80ies and a new, modern church was built. Unfortunately the weather was grey on Sunday, the day of the confirmation, and therefore you cannot see how the church is build in the form of the mountain behind.

For important days, as confirmations, we often use "bunad" - regional outfits. Her e is Marta and Ingrid with their cousins Gunhild and Kamilla, all four in different bunader. Ingrid has one from Rogaland, south west in Norway, Marta has inherited a very old one from Nordfjord, west in Norway (it originally belonged to a late aunt of my father), Gunhild has inherited from her grandmother one from North-Norway, and Kamilla has one from Lofoten.

My mother and I also have bunader. My mother got hers, made by her sister, when she was 17, I got mine from Terje as a present the day (night) after our wedding, 25 years ago.

The last photo today is from inside Borge church, mu brother Frode and all the lovely young confirmants dressed in their best clothes.

Midnight Sun

I have finished my exams for this year, and we have been up to Lofoten Island for a family event - confirmation. Not much time for blogging right now, but at least I can give you a few photos of the midnight sun. And then come back sson with a more updated version of my last weeks. The two first photos are from Eggum in Vestvågøy in Lofoten.

I am standing near a statue called The Face.  

The third photo is taken from my brother's house the last night we were there, at around 00.30am.