On our first common winter trip to the Norwegian Lofoten Islands in January 2022 we had had a bit of bad luck with the weather - a lot of storms, rain, slush, snow and ice in motley succession. Time and again we were sitting in our admittedly very comfortable hut drinking coffee and baking yummy waffles instead of exploring the surroundings with our cameras…. That‘s why … and of course because we had enjoyed the trip with Jens anyway - Thomas, Hardo and I decided to give the photo workshop in the northern part of Norway with Jens Klettenheimer another try.

Our group of 5 started from Frankfurt Airport on Sunday, January 28th, to Leknes, Lofoten, via Oslo and Bodø. Jens expected us in Leknes, he had had another group before ours. We made it without any delays to Oslo and further on to Bodø. And that’s where our trip ended for the time being. Our flight to Leknes was cancelled on short notice due to heavy gusts, the first forebodings of a really bad hurricane that was predicted for the following Wednesday. We were rebooked to a flight the following morning, then again rebooked to the following afternoon, evening, Tuesday morning, noon, afternoon, evening, until the probable departure date was Wednesday morning. We were stuck in the hotel, couldn’t even go outside most of the time because it was too dangerous. Sitting on my bed on the 8th floor I could tell that the storm was really bad as the curtains and the mirror were swinging on the wall and the window pane was actually bulging inward  with every heavy gust - quite a scary sight to behold of!