Day 3 – Our Longest Day Yet

We left off our update yesterday evening on the ferry to Andenes. We arrived around 8:45pm and cycled another 10km to make it to 94km for the day. We set up camp just off the main road by a pond, which we soon found out was swarmed by mosquitos.

This morning we were more efficient than yesterday, managing to depart camp at 9:30am. The roads today were perfect – smooth, not hilly, and fast. We first stopped at kilometre 50 for lunch – a pretty meagre cheese and chorizo on Norwegian style pita bread. Viki’s deraileur was having issues and her chain kept falling off. After successive adjustments over the course of the day, we think we’ve fixed it.

We managed a whopping 120.3km today, as we’re trying to make the long ferry to Bodo in two days from now. That’s still 240km away, so we’re hoping to do another two 120km days in a row.

We’ve set up camp beside a cemetery – a strategy recommended by my mum, as there’s always a water supply at a cemetery. This one also comes with a rather nice view of the ocean!