Risnes

Yesterday’s sunny afternoon was a total bluff. It started raining sometime in the morning and it’s still raining. I didn’t wait too long for the rain to stop today, I just decided to start in the rain, which was not a bad idea, since the alternative was to stay in my tent. So I made my peace with the rain and started riding North. The problem started when I started getting cold. That prompted today’s chain of events.

I took a ferry from Leirvåg to Sløvag, and debated whether to go as far as possible and then camp in the wild. I was reasonably stocked on food and water, but I was also very cold. The forecast was clear in the evening, but I was not going to trust that, specially after this week. Today I made the mistake of not putting on my full rain gear when I started riding, thinking the rain would subside.

Amid all of this planning, replanning, checking grocery stores, checking campsites, checking distances, ferry times; I realised I haven’t been having fun. Granted, part of it is that I haven’t seen good weather since last week (not counting yesterday afternoon); but also I have only been playing this planning Sudoku puzzle.

So today I decided I would talk to as many people as I can, as long as I want to, and I would eat canned Mackarel with rice for dinner, inspired by Michel and Adrian, my Airbnb host in Bergen.

The Mackarel was good!

Risnes, Norway