So even though the room was the coolest, most comfortable room of the trip, the thick warm doonas meant overheating anyway. So that and all the lights from hopeless blinds meant I didn't sleep all that well. Did I mention we didn't get to bed til after 1am? And I had restless legs so couldn't get to sleep for ages? Although I didn't feel as tired today as I felt yesterday. Go figure. Probably because we had a fairly late start so slept in til about 7am.
Breakfast options were fairly limited. No bacon again! *gasp* Ended up having quite a lot of potato, so a very "carby" breakfast.
Then blogged yesterday from the hotel lobby (only hotel so far on this particular trip that we've not had wifi in the rooms).
Troll outside our hotel in Honningsvåg
Statue of Bamse, a St Bernard, famous in the area during World War II
Left around 10:30am. Had a couple of small photo stops which was nice - one for the town of Honningsvag, although the light was pretty bad, and one for the fjord, but that one had some reindeer just there which made the stop worthwhile, as it wasn't really a good place for a photo. Turns out the photo stops were just fillers to take up time - because otherwise we'd have been too early to the tiny restaurant we went to for lunch - which had another tour bus there and so we timed it to get there just after they left. I just had an ice cream for lunch, as I felt like I'd just had breakfast.
View back towards Honningsvåg
Coastline west of Honningsvåg
View back towards Honningsvåg
Reindeer by the side of the road
Reindeer by the side of the road
Interesting rock strata
Reindeer by the side of the road
Interesting rock strata
Photo by Mum
Reindeer climbing the cliffs
Porsangerfjorden
Coastline on Porsangerfjorden
Cliffs by the side of the road
Guorrojohka river
Malamute outside shops in Skaidi
Nice building in Skaidi
Shops in Skaidi
Goahtemuorjohka river
Goahtemuorjohka river
Rapids on the Goahtemuorjohka river
Aisaroaivi kapell
Altafjorden near Rafsbotn
View towards Alta
Altagård historic building
Drove onto Alta and to the hotel, around 3pm.
Nordlyskatedralen Alta kirke (Cathedral of the Northern Lights) next to our hotel
Went and found the laundry and thought we'd have a go at doing some washing.
Sigh.
The machine was a very complicated Bosch with way too many cycles all labelled in Norwegian, with no English instructions. Found one cycle that said it would take 43 minutes. It took nearly an hour, and even then didn't spin the clothes very dry. So then into the drier. Another Bosch with far too many options. Whatever happened to two dials on a drier: temperature and timer ?? Why so damned complicated?? After forty minutes we went back and the clothes weren't dry at all. Mum went back again later, fiddled, went to reception to ask for help, found out the drying tray was full of water, tried again, and after probably two an a half hours since we started, gave up and brought all the washing back to the room to dry it here.
By this time of course it's 6:30 pm and all I've had to eat since breakfast is an ice cream so I was feeling pretty miserable. So we went out for dinner - just across the way to a little shopping mall. Found a little pizza place and shared a small pizza.
Feel like a big fat blob. Didn't do *any* exercise today (other than a few walks up and down three or four flights of stairs on account of the elevators in the hotel being out of service). It certainly hasn't helped that's it raining here (guess we won't be seeing the midnight sun tonight!), and we're not really anywhere near the fjord anyway, and all the dramas with the washing). At least the blinds look to be good shut out blinds, so hopefully we'll get some sleep.
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