Hennigsvær

This morning we got up to a very windy day! With rain! And all the rainbows everywhere all day! Really I woke up to the van rocking from the wind and thought if this had been yesterday I am not sure we would have tried the hike. It was so windy all day it was like blowing me over at times and on a steep ridge that would not be good! So I was glad the weather was so nice yesterday!

We got ready and walked over to Hennigsvær to spy and see what we could see. I didn’t expect us to be gone that long, maybe an hour because I didn’t expect there to be much to see. None of the other small towns had much.

Well…we got there and there were these signs with a QR code again and a map with numbers and it was a really nice little history of the town with buildings/places marked that were of interest. Like the one place was a fisherman’s school as some brought their sons with them and they could only come if they didn’t miss their schooling. Or to teach the fisherman hygiene. There were also 3 German gun towers out by the telecom tower that I don’t know if I would have realized were even there if not for the map!

It also told us the oldest rocks in Lofoten are there by the stadium - Gneiss with Gabbro that was tested to be 2,850 million years old! So cool!! The stadium (football field) is apparently famous and well photographed as it is „surrounded“ by mountains…but it is not really. Just the mountains in the distance that you can see from the entire town basically. It was fine, but nothing special. And it was not part of the history tour!

We also went to a bakery and got a slice of banana bread and sandwiches for lunch - they were roasted cauliflower, pea spread, sundried tomato, ajvar, and seeds on sourdough bread. They were both so good! All in all it was a really cute town and we both enjoyed our time there. If it had been nicer out (it was so windy and kept raining off and on) we could have spent more time there. Really it is the first small town that actually had things in it not just old fishing houses that are now for tourists to stay in. So it was fun and it is the one town I would definitely recommend going to! As it was we spent three hours exploring! It would have been a bit longer but the weather turned awful and we to get to the car as quick as we could. I almost said let’s just skip this town as none of them have been that exciting, but I’m glad I didn’t!Read more