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A little rain and thunder during the night and the morning was bright but mostly cloudy although still comfortably warm. Managed to get away after breakfast a little earlier after refilling the water tank - well we'd paid for it otherwise it was quite an expensive carpark! We're not really sure why or how we ended up this road, which wasn't on our planned route so we just backtracked and rejoined at Gulholmen where there was a free service point, including an automatic toilet cassette cleaning machine. We've come across these before but don't quite trust them so we used the manual system of emptying which was also available.
Just across the carpark was an unattended fuel station which our app told us sold the cheapest fuel in Norway! Don't know about that but we're not going to complain about £1.47 a litre so topped off the tank whilst we were here. Diesel is actually cheaper than petrol in Norway and as you can see somewhat less than in the UK.
Apart from fjords and mountains, Norway is well known for its tunnels and we came across a few today, the first 6.4km long and also a couple that actually went under the sea - maybe it's easier than building a bridge? Unfortunately the weather decided to have an off day and we encountered light showers over most of the time we were travelling, which also shows in the quality of some of the photos.
Lunch just short of Svolvaer, where one of the ferry routes to the mainland is located, and then continued south. This turned out to be a popular and very busy tourist route with dozens of motorhomes and quite a few tourist coaches too. There were tourist signs along the way pointing to various "attractions", including a very busy Viking Exhibition which we'll likely investigate on our return north. We also investigated one that we'd incorporated in our plans before we left home which turned out to be a WW2 German observatory post, but tourism had taken advantage and they wanted silly money just to stop and look at it. As it was the end of the road anyway we just turned around, finding the cod drying racks just around the corner far more interesting. Fishing is the staple occupation here in the islands as the North Atlantic cod spawning grounds are located just off the coast and for a couple of months a year some of the best cod in the world is caught and prepared here before being exported. Regretfully none of the photos we attempted turned out, except the WW2 observatory.
Returned to the main E10 to continue south and paused at a brand new rest area for a cuppa whilst deciding on our nightstop. We could have stayed here but it was too busy for our liking so wandered on, checking out a few of the places mentioned on Park4Night. There were quite a few spots where roadside rough parking areas had, shall we say, been utilised by motorhomes, usually with a good view. Of course many had already been taken but we found a nice one, a little way off the road but well sheltered and level so decided that this would do.
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