LOFOTEN: A roadtrip to the MOST AMAZING places of Lofoten Islands // EPS. 7 EXPEDITION NORTH
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- Опубліковано 4 лют 2025
- If there is one place on earth where it doesn’t matter if it rains, if snows, or if the sun shines because it’s beautiful never the less - it must be Lofoten Islands in Norway. A rugged mountain chain is rising up from the Gulf Stream, forming a rare and unique world. It’s wild and beautiful, with azure blue water, white beaches, green mountainsides, beautiful fjords, old fishing towns and maybe some of the most spectacular roads in the world.
Here are my Highlights for a visit on Lofoten islands:
Visit the town Å i Lofoten
Sleep in traditional Rorbuer, old fishing huts that are often reused as appartments and rent out to tourists
Dine at Holmen Restaurant
Drive over the stunning Fredvang bridges
Check out the artistic village Henningsvær and it's football field, that is situated on it's own island
Visit Nusfjord, one of the best preserved historic fishing villages in all of Norway
On our arrival with the ferry from Bodø in Moskenes on the island Moskenesøy of Lofoten we first did a trip to the most southern village of the island - that has the shortes name I ever came across: Å. After arriving in our accommodation Eliassen Rorbuer I invited my travel partner to Holmen Restaurant for a amazing dining experience.
The next day we finally took off to explore Lofoten: We drove over water at the beautiful Fredvang bridges, visited Nusfjord and it's restored historic village, looked at some art boutiques and the football field at Henningsvær and ended our day in Svolvær. Why I loved Lofoten? Check out the video for some of the most scenic shots of this whole journey!
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//Join the journey from Switzerland to Nordkapp - to Europes barely inhabited places and it's last big secrets. The wild ride takes my travel partner and me 12.000 kilometres through 6 countries: Switzerland, Germany, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Sweden.
Time of the journey: July 2020 to September 2020
// Welcome to the journey! I am Lea, a journalist and author and I want to take you with me on a motorcycle overlanding adventure to all the wild and beautiful places in the world!
// I circumnavigated the world solo from 2016-2017 and now I am going to all other places I have not seen yet. Now on the channel: my motorcycle trip around africa/ the first stage of the journey through westafrica.
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Thank you guys for all the birthday wishes for my travel partner! He is so happy about all your nice comments and says thank you too!!!
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If you want to follow him on another Plattform you can find him as hairpinsandgravel on insta.
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Some of you asked why he doesn’t want to be on the UA-cam videos - do you remember that he always comes in the picture when something goes wrong? (E.g. him being stuck in Sand in Mauritania, dropped motorcycle in Guinea, stuck in Sand in Sierra Leone ...). Yes, if I was him I wouldn’t trust me either that I will portrait him in a good way. 😂
(And another answer is: some people just don’t want to be all over social Media because of their jobs/ difficult family situations / or just because they simply don’t want it. I think that’s very legitimate as there come as well a lot of negative things with it. It’s never wrong to protect your privacy 🙏🏻)
@Toto Arriba You should have your own channel Toto! It would be a hit! You know so much about all these things! I will subscribe yours - just in case you at one point will start to make videos! :)
@@Got2Go HaHa well said.
Norway 🇳🇴- my dream country
Interesting about Lofoten: ua-cam.com/video/D3JJ0UecC90/v-deo.html
The videos / filming /presentation is among the best I've ever seeeeen 🙂 You should get a JOB at a major TV channel , in my humble opinion
MAY GOD BE WITH YOU ALWAYS
People like you make UA-cam a great place. Fantastic visuals and production quality. Don't stop making videos :)
Thank you so much for that huge compliment! ☺️☺️☺️
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@youtube #youtube
Lea....I think this is one of your best videos of this series. The filming, audio and production are worthy of Netflix. You should be really proud of your work. Ride safe 👍🇬🇧
Wow thank you for that compliment! But it’s one of my favorites too, the nature is just so stunning!
I agree
really nice !
Fantastico le lofoten da viverci per sempre complimenti per il video ciao
Lofoten are breathtaking.....your video makes them ever better. You pointed out the best of landscapes. Brava! Ciao 🌷Happy birthday to your partner 🍾
Thank you so much! ☺️
Great Video! Super nice to see, beautiful images!
I'm so glad you included the part telling your viewers to be respectful of the locals! ❤️ It's a really small place that can't accommodate loads of people at once.
This is such a beautiful country... I can understand you would like to stop every few minutes to take pictures. The Norwegian Tourist Office would love your contribution. Thanks for showing all this.
Und viele Glückwünsche an Ihren Reisepartner. 😉
@@totoarriba Edward Grieg: Peer Gynt Suite No.1
Peer Gynt was for my travel partner - kind of his birthday wish to use that song at least once when cutting the Norway series! ☺️
Ed, thank you for your comment!
@@Got2Go You’re welcome. Very appropriate music.
All good episodes and interesting made and filmed👍🏻😃
What a beautiful trip. Nice to see it through your camera, thnx and very late birthday whishes to your travel partner.
Wow..there is beautiful place for living
Amazing locations. Love the soccer field gets its own island. The restaurant window view is like a painting. Thanks for all you do with a motorcycle ha.
Gratulera zum Geburtstag! Super vlog.
Absolutely wonderful. Lofoten is like an enormous cathedral where heaven meets the sea. Thank you very much for taking us there.
Thanks a lot for your amazing video. I am from United Arab Emirates.
Spectacular view and very informative thanks for sharing👍🏾👍🏾
Så vackert ! Är själv från 🇳🇴 och varit där några gånger. Mycke proffsig video ❤️❤️❤️🇳🇴🇳🇴🇳🇴
Ein schön gemachtes Video. Es ist halt sehr wechselhaftes Wetter dort oben.
Den Bildern nach war ich in Island daher noch gut bedient.
Weiterhin viel Spaß beim Reisen. ❤
Thanks for sharing
I enjoyed your beautiful video 🌷😍
Beste Dokumentation über eine Motorradtour durch Norwegen, finde ich. 👍 Wir waren fast zeitgleich auf den Lofoten, übrigens auch im Eliassen Robour und auch mit Ducati 😏 Ab Nordkap dient mir Eure Tour als perfekte Vorlage für die nächste Reise. Vielen Dank!
Ach wie lustig! Da müssen wir uns knapp verpasst haben - hat euch der Regen dafür wenigstens nicht so lange begleitet? Auf der Fähre nach Norwegen haben wir Motorradfahrer getroffen, die bis nach Bergen mit der Fähre gefahren sind (und einen etwas strafferen Zeitplan hatten als wir) - und sie hatten die ganze Zeit Sonnenschein! 😂
@@Got2Go 😊 Leider hatten wir auf den Lofoten nur Regen. Dann ging es weiter bis Narvik, was auch unser nördlichster Punkt war. Danach wieder Richtung Süden. Angelehnt an Eure Reise, werden wir auf unserer nächsten Tour über Finnland bis zum Nordkapp fahren und dann über Schweden zurück. Sind schon neugierig auf deinen nächsten Clip.
Ja das ist eine gute Idee! Ich würde ja auch gerne noch Norwegen weiter an der Grenze von Schweden im inneren des Landes bereisen - das ist sicher auch nochmal anders und spannend! So viel zu tun in Skandinavien! Und: oh nein bezüglich eures Lofoten Wetters. Es ist immer ein Glücksspiel!
Well since I'm watching in Oct of 21 belated B'Day wishes to your friend for this past birthday. Hopefully, it was spent in another beautiful place. So glad I now know what ' Å ' is. If it were not for you I would have been expecting to see B, C and so on 🤣🤣. This looks like an area where one could spend months soaking in the beauty of the scenery. Thanks for showcasing it.
Wow amazing.you are really great 👍
Hey @#!! Happy Birthday to your Travel partner , And thanks For the stunning View 👍👍😘😘
Fantastic journey, wonderful coverage of all the places_Gangadhr.
Just beautiful , was in norway september 2019 was excellent to say the least
good on you , lovely energy and expression , world travel is just the best thing to do
Hi, I don' t know what to tell. I don' t have words. Amazing video, amazing scenery, good commentaries.
I like motorbikering, my hearth is with you. Many regards from Czech 🇨🇿
Wow, Beautiful Upload friend. keep it up. Thank you for sharing this to us. Greetings from Korea
After working in and traveling around all over the world i have seen so many beautiful and fascinating places. Then i travelled around Norway and i must say it must be the most beautiful country on the planet. And Lofoten is the most beautiful place i have ever visited. I was lucky with the weather with blue skies all over. Totally stunning. It´ s like having the Alps in the middle of the sea. I come from the country next door, Sweden, which is quite beautiful itself, but i must admit Norway is even more so.
👍👍👍👍❤️❤️❤️❤️ lovely movie
Very good quality document thank you so mush.
Awesome trip, well done 👌
So glad to hear you talking about respect for the residents and importance of keeping the fantastic nature untouched for generations to come😍👍🏻👏🏻🇳🇴
Hi Lea
Versprechen gehalten. Diese Episode war ein absolutes Highlight.
Klasse gefilmt, toll erzählt. Ich bleibe dir treu.....
Happy Birthday an deinen Kamerascheuen Reisepartner.
LG
Danke dir! Das freut mich! Und endlich gibt es für dich ab nächster Woche nur noch Sonne - vielleicht bekommst du dann doch noch Lust auf Skandinavien! 😁
Thank you for your marvellous story and your video
So beautiful pics and videos ! For sure now i want to go there. thanks for that ✌️
increasingly enchanted and proud of our beautiful europe. Thank you so much sweet Lia
This is absolutely stunning
.wow
Thanks! ☺️
5:12 really is the most beautiful view from a window I have ever seen . It is a place I must see . Thanks for another brilliant episode.
Yea, even when I saw the video a few times when cutting it I was always like: „wow, that’s really beautiful“.... 😍
Hi Lea and birthday travel partner so glad you did get some sunny days brilliant Drone footage and the scenery island looks so pleasant fisherman's cottages gorgeous liked that tremendous bridge would have been nice if dry on a bike thanks for the information and tour take care and be safe see you soon in your next vid cheers 🤗🏍👍
Cheers to you dean! The next episode will be completely dry without rain! 😂😍
What a gamechanger drones are to these kind of diaries! Thanks for all your efforts! The quality is just outstanding!
Another excellent video Lea, More! more! more please..
Thank you for showing this journey, I was there myself at Svolvaer with a group of tourists, lovely places in Lofoten. 🙏
Simply breathtaking. Thank you. We are planning our next trip to Europe from Melbourne, Australia. Have booked the BMW R1250GS in London for August/September 2023 and planning our 6 week ride. I was considering Norway and now I think this destination is confirmed! ✌️❤️🙏🇦🇺
From one end to the other...mountains, plains, waterfalls,... blankets of greens and rocks touch and embrace the sea.
Fishing villages welcome those who are constantly surprised by sun, rain and so much beauty... For the daring whose birthday has been not forgetten a small banquet was offered.
Congratulations for both.
Fröhliche Weihnachten. ☃️🎄🎁
Merry x-mas to you too! Antonio, soon I think you have to write my voice overs for my videos - you are much more poetic than I am!
Beautiful ❤️ great to see a girl out there on a motorcycle... Yeah...belated happy birthday 💜💚💛🧡💙♥️❤️🎂
Ok, we just put Lofoten on our bucket list! Wow!!!
You have a very poetic way with your words in the videos. I think that is part of what makes them so interesting.
Thank you for that compliment! ☺️
Sure.....
dear travel-partner....
a warm Birthday- wish to you.....
stay well in your life......
and
both of you
thanks for sharing lovely places......
So many beautiful places. And lots of beautiful memories too. I was once lucky enough to live in the Lofoten for about half a year. Thanks again for the very great videos. 4K is awesome!
Must be a beautiful place to live!
Happy Birthday to your travel partner and thank you so much for your Story. Great to see! So beautiful...
Beautiful...thank you so much for sharing
Wowwwww..!
So Amazing :)
So Beautiful :)
Que lugar maravilloso, me gusto muchísimo la introducción del video, la descripción que hizo del lugar, muy lindas palabras, excelente.
Fantastisk video. Utrolig flott framstilling av Lofoten.
De som aldri har vært i Lofoten må jo få lyst til å reise dit, etter å ha sett videoen din 🇳🇴
Har kjørt Lofoten mange ganger, på min R1250R. Blir aldri lei, fantastiske mc veier, flotte fjell og strender. All in one 🇳🇴
Have never been there, but everywere else around Nothern norway. I only live 500 km from Lofoten 😂 in Sweden. But because of your video , My T7 is going to visit Lofoten 😘. And Trollstigen
Gratiiiis! Tillykke! från Sverige! Travelpartner. Very nice shooting.
I discover your roadtrip to Lofoten... A bit late for a birthday cheer to your mate ... But anyway, Happy Birthday !!! (last or next)
Beautiful ride, fantastic views... You tested your rain equipment. 😉
Beautifully presented.
Thanks! ☺️
Da ich bereits 1977 mit meiner BMW R90/6, Baujahr 1976, am Nordkapp war, schaue mit großem Interesse die Videos über eure Expedition North! Das sind echt Spitzen-Videos, qualitativ sehr hochwertig und höchst interessant bearbeitet! Auch die Kommentare in Englisch sind gut verständlich und informativ! Euer Kanal ist wirklich eine Bereicherung! Große Hochachtung!!
Theo Müller
Lieber Theo, vielen Dank für das Kompliment! Wow, 1977 - da war ich selbst noch gar kein Baujahr. Es hat sich sicher viel verändert, oder? Wäre sicher spannend genau den Trip heute noch einmal zu machen! Aber wahrscheinlich wärst du dann enttäuscht, weil heute eventuell so viel mehr los ist...
@@Got2Go Liebe Lea, klar war 1977 alles noch anders, fast nur Schotterstraßen, unbeleuchtete Tunnels mit tiefen, mit Tropfwasser gefüllten Schlaglöchern, und vieles gab es halt noch gar nicht, zB die Halle am Polarkreis und die Atlantikstraße! Zufälligerweise habe ich grade während einer Corona-Quarantäne die alten Dias digitalisiert und dadurch die Erinnerungen aufgefrischt!
Zwischendurch gucke ich jetzt immer mal ne Folge eurer Expedition, da habe ich direkte Vergleiche! Macht viel Spaß!!
Ich wünsche dir und euch alles Gute für das kommende Jahr und eure weiteren Reisen!
LG, Theo
Life in a islands is different ..always enjoying your sorounding and food is the best exchange. Stranger are welcome today enjoy the the island
Really I do enjoy all your lovely video's above all
Thank you for sharing it
And happy birthday to your partner
Truly heaven ❤️😍
Nice view nice music background this is one of the best video created😊
Great video. Thank you for the sharing. I love the Lofoten Island.
Wow, thanks for the great videos.
I have so many beautiful memories from Lofoten.
I worked there as a nurse for a full summer some years ago.
I enjoyed the scenery and the lush fresh air so much.
A truly wonderful place...
This video brought me right back to all the memories 💜🌄👍🏻
That makes me very happy - you must know Lofoten like the back of your Hand then!!!
The most beautiful place in the world 👍❤✌😁
Vielen Dank Lea für das wunderbare Video!
Wow just wow. Amazing.
The Lofoten Islands look amazing and beautiful , it is a place id love to visit, thank you for sharing with me.. And what a wonderful place for your travel partner to celebrate his birthday..
I was glad this morning that it was thursday. That means at the evening sit back and relax watching a new episode of this journey. Yes the Lofoten are amazing and it brings back memories. We were lucky that we stayed at Henningsvær. Pity your travel partner stays out of sight but a late happy birthday for him.
Henningsvaer is very scenic! I was happy that I at least could see it for our short ride! Feel like there are so many places on Lofoten that I would like to go back to...
Great video, beautiful places and history. thank you.
Thank you for joining the journey!
Lofoten is truly magical! Thank you for this stunning video!
My pleasure!
One of the few (wild) places I would have loved to visit/journeyed, but this world is done. A+ vidieo. Thank you.
Lofoten is spectacularly beautiful, something akin to what a child would attempt to build in a sandbox, a dreamscape!
How lovely was that to watch ? On my list of places to visit .. now its at the top ! Thank you for all this ... I shall watch your other videos too.
Happy birthday travel partner. Thanks for accompanying Lea on this fantastic journey. These videos are simply stunning.
Norge är otroligt fint....och gillar norska folket....ett " broderfolk" och hela Skandinavien är 🙂👍
But we make Ockelbo snowmobiles and we have the Dala-horse in Sweden and we also invented the word "fika" that means to eat between meals so I think we are about at the same or maybe at a higher level when it comes to attractions.
Oh man what a great view! Thanks for sharing 👍
Your genuine manners and awesome telling deserve more than a thumb
Thank you ☺️
les images sont sublimes : merci a toi de nous faire partager cela
9:45 true 😊 very scenic every minute but the rainy weather i think very trouble for motorcycle riding with luggage 😂🙏
What for a stunning video !!! really perfect views...
Great video. Stunning place. I ride the mighty GSA too fantastic bike. I have nearly every extra you can put on it.🏍
Wow Lea! This video is stunning! Thank you!❤
Having been there by bike, I totally agree, the Lofoten Islands are beautiful in every way, even when there are some very violent storms.
Thanks Lea. Magic scenery. Happy birthday to invisible travel partner.
No doubt the best one yet. Thank you for completing my holiday vicariously. But my god, the rain, does it ever stop!!
Wieder ein wunderschönes Video von dir Lea 👍🏻 die Lofoten setzt du mit diesem Film auf atemberaubende Weise in Szene 👌 Top!
Danke!!!
Wow! So amazing place, when i see this video i feel like very peaceful mind✌️
Such a lovely video, beautiful photography, fascinating.. Charming, peaceful, informative commentary.. Wonderful
Amazing footage! Love your posts. It is almost like being there on this journey. Entertaining,informative and educational at the same time. By the way Happy Birthday to your mysterious riding partner!
Thank you. And the mysterious riding partner says hello! 😂 (you can find him as @hairpinsandgravel on Instagram )
Just stunning photograph you are setting new standards, great to watch ❤️
Супер відео! Дякуємо за вашу роботу і за цю красу❤️❤️
Many thanks for these beautiful videos. Happy birthday to your travel partner. Greetings and merry Christmas from Belgium
you are living a very beautiful life, this is one of the best video, Ride safe
Beautiful. Look forward to your road travel in Iceland
@Got2go It was a wonderful video!! Thank you for sharing with us!! I once went to Oslo almost 9 years ago but i didn't have the chance to visit lofoten islands...It is surely on my to do list!! Maybe i would be the only guy that i would stop much more times than you did to watch this beautiful scenery!! 😁 I really love Norway, i hope you had a great time!!! Greetings from Greece!!!
Nice video, you did Nice work 😉👍
Looks amazing, even in the rain.