Mo i Rana til Ramsund

Another ca 500 km to Ramsund driven-1400 km all in all. Kayaks packed. Tomorrow we are off.
En route we stopped at Stein’s friend Pål Brotkorb at Evenskjær. He kindly helped us out with accommodation for the night at Ramsund.
He also offered us a local perspective on tourism. Suffice to say that when about 700 000 tourists visit Lofoten every year, that is about the population of Oslo. But Lofoten has a lot less developed utilities, like sewage system. The results can be a bit messy, like when campers empty their holding tanks by the wayside on Pål and family’s farm.
At the same time there are massive (billions of dollars worth) of roads being built. Not to get more tourists in, but to get the salmon out.
As they say in my neck of the woods: “No one is more in a hurry than a dead salmon”Read more