Trip to Lofoten - part 1 (Brno - Sandenfjord)

Since the last visit of such beautiful country as Norway is, i really thought about how to get there again. That wasn't only me, who had this thoughts. My friend Stepan and I started to look around for some cheap fly tickets, trains and other travel possibilities. Last year we really thought about the idea to go beyond the Arctic Circle, but we weren't so sure because of the tough weather there and our equipment.
So this year, we started thinking about the trip beyond the Circle at first. We agreed that the place we want to travel are Lofoten, an archipelago in north of the Norway. There was a lot of possibilities to travel there, but we want to travel cheap, so we decided to travel by train across the whole country of Norway. We have a great experience from last year with traveling by train with Norwegian NSB company.

So we are starting our trip on Monday morning 10th of June. Stepan's dad took us to the bus station near Grand Hotel in Brno, from here we are going by bus (Student Agency) to Prague. The journey was quite ok, but the breakfast that i ate too soon didn't think that.
We are in Prague and we have about one hour to wait till our next bus departure. In 8:40AM we are heading to Wroclaw by PolskiBus. The bus is going across Hradec Kralove. About 2:00PM we are entering the city of Wroclaw, the edge of the city seems to me industrial, but the center is quite large, historical and well-preserved. We are leaving bus station and going north to more historical part of the city. There are lot of well-repaired historic buildings, a lot of churches made of bricks and there is also a new skyscraper named Sky Tower situated near the center. We are approaching to Rynek Square, so scenic place surrounded by period buildings with incredible facades, classic pubs and wooden shops around. The old city hall is dominating to the square.

The classic brick churches or cathedrals are literally everywhere, wherever you look you see one. But all of them are repaired and open. I really like the style of these buildings, the brick finish.
We are looking around the Square, after a while it started to rain so we went for a lunch to the KFC. We have a great meal here and we are enjoying nice prices here compared to Norway :)
After a lunch we are meeting our host Andrej, Stepan contacted him via couchsurfing. Andrej is a nice guy, he's student of university here. We are going to his apartment to leave there our baggage, after that we are going to look around the city but the rain is quite strong. We endure and we are trying to make that, so we are seeing a lot of nice places, buildings, churches a great fountain in the rain.
We have a luck and fountain performs a great show. In the evening we are ending a day in one of the classic pubs drinking polish beers of small breweries. I would say, that polish beers are really tasty comparing to our Czech beers. We are chatting about traveling, university, hitch-hiking and about a lot more. Andrej really likes to travel, a few months ago he was in USA, at the end of the holiday he wants to travel Georgia. That's great to heard about these hitch-hiking stories, i have to try that once. Actually he competed in something like hitch-hiking race.After a great evening, we are tired, so we have a dinner and going to sleep.

 Tuesday morning, we are starting with breakfast and after that we are going on the last "look around" trip. We are going up to Mostek Pokutnic (Witches Bridge), a lot of stairs, but the view really worth it. It's a bridge between two towers of a church. You can see almost all the city of Wroclaw from there. The city is really flat so everybody rides a bike there. And city is greatly accommodate to bikers, everywhere are bike lines and you can easily rent a bike there.
So we said goodbye to Andrej and we are heading to the airport. We can't stop thinking about how it will go with our luggage. We actually bought only one luggage together but we have two on our backs. We want to try to wrap two baggage to one bigger, which looks a little puffy but should be ok according to the fly terms.
So near the airport we are spreading our tarpaulin and wrapping our baggage just like we tried in Brno.
We have a little external bags compatible with our large bags. We are filling these bags with food and takeing it as a carry-on baggage. After we finished wrapping, we are going to check in. The airport staff is studying the luggage suspiciously but at all it seems to be ok. We are glad, that technique works! that's great :) We are now waiting to our flight to Oslo - Torp. At the time of departure, the plain is just arriving, but it doesn't matter cos we are now flying over the sea to Norway!