Week 1, Northern Norway, getting there, and the Anderdalen mistake

Hi, here a few pics of my first week in Northern Norway and my trip to get there. I went by train form Geneva (Switzerland) to Narvik, which is as far north as you can go by train. I got an interrail with 10 days of travel to be used within 2 months of the first day. I took three night trains, which used up 4 days. Basel-Hamburg, Hasselholm-Stockholm (the train from Hamburg to Stockholm was canceled), and Stockholm-Boden. The Swedish night trains are awesome, compare to the german mini cabin, 1m high and 60cm wide. I got a 1st class interrail, it wasn't very much more expensive, and then paid a €70.- supplement to have a private cabin with toilet and shower ! This was really handy as I could put my bike (in a bag) on the second bunk.
From Narvik I rode north to the island of Senja, beautiful and not full of tourist, but a lot of road with cars, campers and trucks to get there though. I'm now in Senja and will continue towards the north of the island before taking a ferry and joining the north of the Lofoten islands: Andoya.
About the Anderdalen mistake… I drew a route with Ride with GPS through the Anderdalen National Park, I set off and got 1 third of the way, it took me about 5 hours to do 6km. I got to the lakeside, it was beautiful, I slept there and in the morning left my gear behind to go check the path ahead, I saw there were two steep climbs, I did the first one, with no load, and it was already quite an effort. I came to the realization it was not going to be doable with my bike, and how loaded I was, so I turned back. Now I wish I had just left my bike and gear at the camping at the entrance to the park, which is really nice, and just gone hiking in the parc. There is one pic of a wooden path, all around is really marshy, in the beginning it was tough, I then got the hang of it and was able to ride those wooden planks quite well. There were tow place I had to hike-a-bike (carry my bike on my back).
Anyway, I came back to the camping, had a nice night, shower and washed my clothes and I'm now off to visit northern Senja.
Ride happily 😉