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Norway

Norway

N0RWAY

Lofoten Island

Lofoten Islands

February 26-March 22, 2011

 

Norway

Country name
Area
Norway Population 4.85 million

Capital

Oslo
Access 10 hours from Kansai to Helsinki 
Helsinki - Ivalo. Ivalo -Kautokeino -Tromso - Harstad - Lofoten Islands - Trondheim - Alesund -Bergen - Oslo - Helsinki - Kansai  
Currency Krone 1DNK 15 yen

Norway Lofoten Islands_Prologue

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Alta Ice Hotel

Rose flower that freezes at -5 ℃

Commemorative photo with my wife at a Sushi bar

Friendly chef Portuguese

Melting salmon (Tromso)

Alta's World Heritage Rock Art

Scenery from Kautokeino to Alta

Inside the ice hotel in Alta

Alta Ice Hotel

Me riding a reindeer sled

Reindeer sprinting through a snow ranch

Reindeer sprinting through a snow ranch

Reindeer crossing the road

Aurora in Lofoten Islands

It's all made of ice.
The romantic room is minus 5 degrees.
An ice hotel that sleeps in a sleeping bag on reindeer fur is probably comfortable? Enchanted by the fantastic ice sculpture.
The blue light creates a more mood.
The world heritage rock art I was expecting It is regrettable that the museum is closed under the snow.

I immediately rushed to the scene with a photo of a reindeer running at a hotel.
She said she would put up with a reindeer instead of an aurora in the shooting of her knees buried in the snow in a brave figure running by kicking the snow.
She arrives at her destination ice hotel while she is admired by the two-hour snow scene from Kautokeino to Alta.

1 hour 15 minutes from Helsinki to Ivalo.
In addition, we will run a five-hour land route over the bridge on the border between Finland and Norway.
According to the weather forecast one week ago, I decided to set it at -20 ℃.
Kautokeino (Norway is blessed with a sunny day with a temperature of -4 degrees Celsius.
Kotetsu (wife) who is disappointed not knowing whether or not she can see the aurora.

The one-hour flight journey from Alta to Tromso goes smoothly.
The sushi bar of "RA sushi" that I heard at a fish store in the town has a good taste, and the melty salmon nori seaweed is truly Norwegian and makes my tongue groan.
I am satisfied with the high prices in Norway.
The chef's Portuguese friendliness is also good.
The outside changes from snow to rain and eventually becomes sleet.
The wind has added and the weather has become suspicious.
Sure enough, the next morning the high-speed catamaran was canceled, so we will take a 6-hour break until the next flight.

Prologue

Norway Lofoten Islands_Senia

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5 am

The sea is rough and the temperature is -5 ℃

Dawn

Landscape of Senja

Big pie and ice cream

Cod Meuniere is firm and tastes good

In a blizzard・・・

The hotel is on the second floor of the white building on the left

Freezing road on Senja Island

Senja Island

Early in the morning, I went out to shoot with a tripod, but I lost the sense of my fingertips due to the strong wind
and the coldness that was blown away, and I returned to the hotel early.
I feel like I'm going to have an ominous premonition Early in the morning,
I went out to shoot with a tripod, but I lost the sense of my fingertips due to the strong wind and the coldness that was blown away,
and I returned to the hotel early.
I feel like I'm going to have an ominous premonition.

At 3 o'clock in the middle of the night, I feel the shaking of the building as if it were an earthquake.
The sound of the waves raging in the blizzard, the roaring wind, the building itself seems to be blown away.
"What is this!" I was drowsy while listening to the sound of the wind waves that continued forever.

The second floor of the wooden house on the beach is spacious and comfortable,
and the scent of clean wood makes me hungry for dinner.
Speaking of Norway,
cod and pure white meat with outstanding freshness are entwined with the sauce and condensed the taste.
The dinner party for only two people on Senja Island, which is not on the map of Japan, was wonderful.

Although the weather was rough,
we managed to set sail and arrived at Finnsnes (1 hour 15 minutes) on the Island of Senja from Tromso.
Crossing the bridge from the mainland, you will find Senja Island.
Drive on the ice for 1 hour and 30 minutes in a blizzard that you can't even see before.
Far from enjoying the scenery, it is already a dark world after 5 o'clock.

Norway Lofoten Islands_Hinoya Island (Hashta)

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Finally landing and heading to the hotel

Finally landed on the Lofoten Islands

Breakfast is a lot of rare things

Breakfast is a lot of rare things

I'm full

Dinner appetizer

The kitchen of the lord's mansion

The next morning is sunny

A blizzard that you can't see before on your way home

The red building on the left is the inn, and the right is the lord's mansion 100 years ago.

Aurora to show between blizzards

First aurora shooting

Scenery of the port town

Landscape from the accommodation

Landscape from the accommodation

Pet dog George

10th generation owner Christian Frederick

The knocking sound woke me up after 1am and the sailors told me to prepare for disembarkation.
I was able to check in at the hotel at 3:00 am, which was good enough.
The next morning, go back to the original road and proceed through the black strait, which turns from cloudy to rain.

There is no sign that the swaying of the ship will subside.
On the inboard broadcast, there is a plain voice saying that the next harbor will also pass.
It was Arrival at the port called Bodo at 2:00 am is decided.
I decided to go back to the cabin and go to bed.

Happening is a part of the trip,
4 hours to the destination Stamsund, While the storm is getting worse,
what happens is that the movie Titanic's sinking footage passes through my head for a moment.
Thanks to the interpreter of Mr. Maeda,
a tour guide I met on board.
It was helpful to be able to obtain qualified information.

Finally, the long-awaited coastal express ship (12000 tons) advances to Stamsund, the gateway to the Lofoten Islands.
The faces of passengers who seem uneasy about the eerie clouds that are gradually becoming rough.
The sway of the ship gets worse, but I can't stand and walk anymore.
My wife is lying in the cabin early on.

When it snows again, I wait in the car, and then an aurora appears in the direction Rudy points.
Admiring her mysterious light, she is so enthusiastic about shooting that she forgets the pain in her hands that is numbing in the negative world.
I wasn't able to make a convincing shot, but I'm sure I'll be visiting this place again next year.

Waiting in the mountains for 30 minutes, the stars peek through the clouds.
"It's amazing" even though the weather is like this.
I see the first aurora around 10 o'clock.
Aurora is the first time I see it, but I'm even more surprised by his talent.
The portable Internet is very powerful in the mountains.

With people who can communicate with each other, conversations will be lively in the Aurora discussions.
After dinner, we will be guided to aurora photography by Rudy's car.
Snow hitting outside, "I can't do it tonight" "Shall we go home?" "No, it's okay." Rudy,
who checks aurora information on the Internet, is a reliable navigator.

10th generation owner Christian Frederick
The lord's mansion run by Mr. Kursen (40).
The full-course dinner is surprisingly voluminous and tasty, but
It ’s also the first time that there are many fork knives lined up.
Aurora photographer Rudie I met in town tonight
Invite Mr. van deameer).

Hinnoya (Harstad)

The inside of the ship is quiet and the bustle of the trip cannot be seen anywhere.
We finally arrived at the destination.
Reiko (23 years living in the Lofoten Islands) who came to pick us up also said, "This is the event since the Island started."
The smile disappears from the weather information from tomorrow.

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Sun for the first time in 2 weeks

Visit the guide's acquaintance's house

landscape A i Lofoten

Children on the Island

Children on the Island

Hotel A i Lofoten

Landscape of A i Lofoten

Reine landscape

Wife, Motsun's manager, Reiko (guide)

Big cod milt

Freshly caught cod bought from a cod factory

Cod factory

Cut off cod head

Workers from overseas are drying cod

Cod dry ground

The landscape from Reine to O on Moskenesoya is so beautiful that photographers from all over the world will love it.
The snow-covered red Rolbu (fisherman's hut) and the white house are connected to the picturesque fjords,
and there are many shooting points,
so the car does not move forward easily.

Get a freshly landed cod (7kg) through special negotiations at the cod factory in the port.
In Norway, where prices are high, the cheap 200 NKN (3000 yen) is helpful.
I eat cod hot pot with my own ponzu sauce.
The liver was grilled with butter, the milt was grilled with soy sauce,
and the cod roe was mostly left over in size.
The cod eaten on the Island is different from the delicate Japanese cod,
but the white meat that was left in the refrigerator overnight reappeared on the table the next day with more flavor.

Cod fishing is at its peak from February to mid-April, but due to the continuing bad weather, fishing vessels remain moored at the harbor.
Naturally dried cod is a Lofoten specialty.
It is a huge fish that is very different from Japanese walleye pollock, and due to the difference in food culture, milt becomes a food for seagulls,
and it eats liver and cod roe, but its size is surprising.

Lofoten Islands is made up of seven Islands

Austvagoya Island (East Vogue)

Lofoten Islands' largest port city

Gimsoya.

Vestvagoya Island ,Stamsund Harbor

Flakstadoya Island (Nous Fjord)

Moskenesoya

Varoy Island

Consists of Lost Island (puffin colony)

Lofoten Islands

In the morning of the Island where the weather changes 10 times a day,
the face of the morning sun is dazzling for the first time in two weeks.
At the dawn of the shining snowy landscape, I breathe in a lot of clear cold air.
"Ahhhhh". Take a picture of the harsh climate of the North Atlantic Ocean and the dust-free world of silver.

Norway Lofoten Islands_Aurora

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100 year old Art Nouveau building (Alesund

100 year old Art Nouveau building (Alesund

Nidarosdomen wall

Nidarosdomen

Trondheim

Behind Rolbu in Lofoten Islands Mortsund

Behind Rolbu in Lofoten Islands Mortsund

Behind Rolbu in Lofoten Islands Mortsund

Behind Rolbu in Lofoten Islands Mortsund

Behind Rolbu in Lofoten Islands Mortsund

Behind Rolbu in Lofoten Islands Mortsund

Behind Rolbu in Lofoten Islands Mortsund

Behind Rolbu in Lofoten Islands Mortsund

The green curtain appears and disappears, and disappears and appears.
The break of the aurora cannot be accommodated by a wide-angle lens, and you are drawn into the fantastic world of light art that spreads all over the sky.
The aurora created by the sun and the earth at 65-70 degrees.
I was nailed to the night sky as if an electric current ran through my body.

During my stay in the Lofoten Islands, it was a blizzard for four days,
and fortunately for the next three days,
it was a chilly Arctic where I was absorbed in the aurora's turbulence and released the shutter.
I can't feel the cold at all because of my experience of cold resistance in Antarctica.
A fantastic show that dances in the night sky that appears one after another, looking up at the night sky full of sky.
My wife also gave a surprised voice that seemed to be satisfying, and tonight toast to the aurora.

Aurora(Nordlys)

The different beauty of the Norwegian towns makes you captivated by the beauty
of visiting the same place over and over again.
In particular, Trondheim, which prospered as the capital of the Middle Ages, the noble old wooden house reflected on the surface of the river has always been imprinted on my eyes.
The Nidarosdomen, which has a history of 1000 years,
was engraved with a magnificent sculpture over a width of 50m.
The Art Nouveau city of Alesund was filled with my heart just by strolling through the elegant 100-year-old cityscape.

Norway Lofoten Islands_Epilogue

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Lofoten Aurora

Bergen fish market cod

Bergen fish market

Bergen fish market

Kautokeino Reindeer

Morning sun

At the Alta Ice Hotel

Trondheim morning

Senja Island

Mortsund Rolbu (fisherman's hut)

The landscape of Reine that the cameraman longs for

White building on white snow

Goat cheese

Iceburn sometimes slips

View of Reine on Moskenesøya

Lofoten fjord

Lofoten fjord

Christian Fortress in Trondheim

Lofoten Islands

Taiwanese

Korean

traveling companion I met in Sognefjord

Alesund

Sogne Fjord

Sogne Fjord

Bryggen

Fish and shellfish grown in the cold waters of the Arctic Circle are tight and memorable tongue.
Known as the best dish of cod, anglerfish, salmon, herring and Norway.
Stewed cod in tomato sauce, Bacalao is a taste you want to eat again.
The rare brown cheese made from 100% goat milk is a laid-back taste of Norway.
It tastes like caramel.

A trip from Kautokeino in the north to Bergen.
Occasionally a storm hits him, and after that he is welcomed by the Northern Lights and spends his days moving.
From the bottom of my heart (thank you) for being able to travel from Hokkaido to Kyushu from Kautokeino, Alta, senja,
Harstad, Lofoten Islands, Trondheim, Alesund, Bergen and Oslo in just one month.

Sushi shops were thriving in the city full of seafood.
It is recognized as world sushi, not Japanese sushi.
Rice is California rice "Nishiki", pickled ginger is China, wasabi is Italy,
and seaweed is Taiwan, which is the taste of the international world.
The melting smoked Norwegian salmon is a special dish that can only be tasted here.

The one-month trip to Norway was a moving day that left a lasting impression on me, both physically and mentally,
in the northern light of the Arctic Circle created by nature.
The scenic spots, which are crowded with tourists in the summer, are overcrowded with reservations.
The world's most expensive country is also living a comfortable life in a climate blessed with nature.
The memory of the taste was "cod", and the melting taste was a rare taste.

Epilogue

Tourists from all over the world visit one of the world's smallest fjord towns in the summer.
Thank you for traveling to a safe country without any inconvenience.
Once again (thank you) to the people I met who took care of me

February 26-March 22, 2011.