| Page Views: 7,235 Last Visit to Lofoten: June, 2003 | I Dream of Lofoten by yooperprof - last update: Aug 22, 2003 |
Sometimes my travel instinct - my travel "gut" - gives me odd instructions to visit a certain place. Before summer of 2002, I had never heard of Lofoten, but it suddenly became clearly pressing to me that I make a visit to these offshore Norwegian islands. Why? I couldn't really tell you. I don't have any Norwegian ancestry, I don't have any real interest in fish or fisheries, I certainly didn't know anyone in Lofoten. But I heard stories of the place from Norwegian friends, I saw photos of Lofoten in books and on VT, and I even started to have dreams of this place. It became a very important locus in my inner mindscape. Has that ever happened to you? |
|  | Islands of the Mind I think everyone has their own private "mythological geography": places where we act and re-enact our own psycho-traumatic dramas. (Maybe I'm a little more psycho-traumatic than most. . . .) Islands have always had a special place in my own "mythos" - places of simultaneous yearning and contentment. Ironic perhaps, in light of the fact that I grew up "in the heart of the heart of the country". Like Dorothy Gale, I'm a black-and-white Kansan in search of a technicolor paradise. No doubt about it: my "Oz" would certainly be on an island. Perhaps that's part of the attraction of Lofoten for me. |
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|  | streaky rocks The rocky coast of Moskenesøya - the southernmost island of Lofoten - reminds me of some of the shoreline of Lake Superior close to where I live. In both places, the underlying rock strata is very very old - billions and billions of years. It's interesting how other minerals are embedded in the fundamental granite - here is a prominent streak of white rock that stretches visably a long distance. (My guidebook to Moskenesøya says that this is "white pegmatite" and was created during cataclysmic geologic events "about 500 billion years ago.") |
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violilian Mon May 12, 2008 19:26 UTC The ATM (still the only one in this part of Lofoten) has been moved to the petrol station! | Nemorino Sun Oct 22, 2006 08:29 UTC Fine photos and texts! Yes, there must be some kind of story behind those two fishing museums. The two Shock-Haired-Peter museums here in Frankfurt are just now being merged after 30 years, since the feuds of a generation ago are no longer any hindrance. | bilgeez Tue Jun 6, 2006 18:08 UTC Holy mackerel! You are a cod! BTW smashing outfit! What was that for? The fairy party? One serious question, do they have hot springs on Lofoton? Didn't notice that you mentioned that. | travelfrosch Wed May 31, 2006 01:59 UTC Enough with the puns, for Cod's sake! 8) Cheers, Mark |
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