Alta

We are in Alta, the northernmost town in Norway  (but not at 'the end' of Norway which continues for several hundred km yet).  There's not much of Alta, unlike Tromso which is a surprisingly big city with lots of industry.

We travelled along the national scenic route through Vesteralen and Senja, stopping on the island of Andoya to view the midnight sun.  The road there is on the west coast ocean-side of the mountains, so is an ideal spot to see the sun above the horizon - and it is surprising just how high it is, even at midnight.  It is also surprising, to us, just how much heat there is in the sun - we have not used any heating, day or 'night' for the last three days.

While we were watching the midnight sun we had whales 'playing' in the sea in front of us and the cuckoo singing behind us.

We have travelled on the E6 today, which is supposedly not a scenic route - well it looked like one to us!!  When we stopped at a particularly spectacular viewpoint we noticed that our bikes were a bit 'angled' on the bike-rack.  Closer examinaion showed that we had lost a couple of wing-nuts - shaken loose by the appalling temporary road surfaces through roadworks in otherwise generally good or not-bad roads.  We tied it up with some strong string and duct-tape (that essential repair-all equipment) and managed to find some nuts to fix it when we arrived here in Alta, where we also found a wifi; but as it is only 1mps we will not post any photos, so you'll have to take our words for it that the scenery still, after 3 weeks, continues to amaze and delight us.  I'll post some photos when we get a decent connection.