Day 9: Exploring Lofoten 🧭
Today our plan is to visit some of the more popular locations close to where we're staying on the southern end of Lofoten islands.
As we spend much of the day on side-roads – many are not plowed – giving us a chance to experience fully snow covered roads – which our NF0 winter tyres provide plenty of grip on.
Many of the spots are busy with other tourists.
But it is still easy to enjoy the environment peacefully.
We pull in where we can to take in the scenery.
Sometimes resulting in snow up to the top of our tyres.
We notice that the quality of other drivers is not as high as we are used to seeing in northern Norway. At first, we thought perhaps it is a "Sunday" driving thing – but after a while we realise that about half of the Norwegian registered car's are rentals! And the tourists driving them are not good at keeping in to the verge of the road when passing.
In fact, at one stage we make a mistake when passing a car – and pull in a little too much off the side of the road. Perhaps only by an additional 10 centimetres. But it is enough to strand the car in a massive snow drift. I get out the drivers door (right hand side on our car) – and immediately I am standing in a snow drift up to my waist. Oh, oh! We are badly stuck here.
Thankfully – almost immediately a Norwegian passes with a Mercedes G-Wagon and offers a tow. This is where having our towing eye; 4000 kg towing rope and a snow shovel at the ready really helped. Within about ten minutes we were pulled out of the snow drift with zero damage to our carbon fibre front lip (whew!).
We've been carrying this equipment for three years now – in case something like this happened. And a massive thank you to the friendly local who didn't hesitate to stop and help.
Unfortunately, with all the pressure on getting out the the snow – we didn't get to snap a picture.
We continue on our route and send up our drone.
To give us a better perspective on the landscape we're in.
And enjoying a rare straight bit of road in this twisty route.
We attach our GoPro to capture some driving footage.
And arriving at our planned charging stop – probably one of the most scenic we've ever been to.
Eventually reaching Å in the afternoon – just before sunset.
Where a combination of it being Sunday and late meant most places were closed.
We managed to capture lines of photographers on our GoPro – always a good sign that there is something interesting or pretty worth stopping for.
And there was!
We're not sure if we'll try for the Northern lights tonight – the forecast is not good and there is a lot of cloud in the sky. But if there is even a small chance to see them again – we'll take it!
The days charging stats
| Location | Start SOC % | End SOC % | kWh added | Cost | Duration | Ambient Temp | Battery Temp | Charger Type | Network |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eviny Reine | 13% | 95% | 75.56 | €29.26 | 39 mins | 0.5C | 35C | DC 200 kW | Porsche Charging Service |
Today we did 174 km over 6:08 hours, with an average speed of 29 km/h, consuming 27.5 kWh/100km.
