Day 18, 66.33

We waved goodbye to the glacier and headed towards our first ferry of the day. This was to be a ten minute crossing from Foroy to Agskardet, so we drove on, stayed in the van, and drove off!

We hoped to get a few miles under our belts today, so off we drove, past the usual beautiful scenery. Our next ferry was an hour long one, from Jetvik to Kilboghamn, so we headed up onto the deck. This was going to be the ferry journey where we crossed out of the Arctic Circle. We tracked this on Pocket earth, looking for the 66.33 latitude, but an announcement was made on board, so people could go out and look at the globe on a nearby island that marked it. We both felt a bit sad; would we ever return? We have flown in and out of the Arctic Circle, driven into it and sailed out.

We carried on driving, passing the same cars and vans obviously on the same journey as us. We’ve even made a “van friend” from when we parked up together for the Bodo ferry.

Another ferry, this time from Nesna to Levang, this one only 25 minutes long.

We drove over the Helgeland Bridge, one of the biggest cable suspension bridges in the world, and Norway’s favourite bridge; it was quite a sight.

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We stopped off at a rest stop where I got excited by a fabulous little church, and Lyn got excited by the classic red American car in the car park! We also stopped off to get fuel, and Lyn got his customary hot dog and I got some pic n mix! When we looked at the receipt we realised Lyn’s hot dog had cost us seven pounds!

We’ve now stopped for the night; Lyn took us off the road and found us a spot with a fab view and where we were sure to be uninterrupted; that is until a fisherman drives up in his tractor towing his fishing boat, and he wants to launch his boat and we are in the way…. Oops!