Mangar

The rain almost broke my spirit to move today. I checked forecasts, I waited, and when I started moving eventually the rain seemed to have been subsiding. But a burger and coke later, it was worse. My optimism for the weather, and finding a campsite was low. The problem with route planning and finding campsite is that a lot of campsite require large detours, specially around broken landmasses in Norway which I wasn’t willing to do in the rain. I convinced myself I would camp somewhere in the wild; I can handle the rain, I told myself.

When I reached Knarvik; it was raining cats and dogs. I bought pre-cooked food and Chamomile tea. I thought if I was going to camp in the wild and have cold food, I might as well have some tea with me to warm me up. My will to move was so low I considered putting on my emergency music playlist. Luckily it didn’t come to that.

Just before leaving the supermarket and Knarvik, I managed to find a campsite that’s reasonably close to the Eurovelo 1 route near Mangar. I could still have my tea. As I was starting my last push, I spotted Michel. He repaired his bike today and also started late. We were both pretty beat up in the rain, so we decided to ride together to the same campsite.

It got sunny eventually.

Mangar, Norway