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Florø's
tourist office ( 57 74 30 30;
www.fjordkysten.no
; Strandgata 30;
9am-6pm Mon-Fri, 10am-4pm Sat, 11am-3pm Sun Jun-Aug)
has a computer terminal
and wi-fi.
Getting There & Away
DAT (
www.dat.dk
)
offers four budget flights daily to/from both Oslo and Bergen.
Florø is the first stop on the Hurtigruten coastal ferry as it heads north from Bergen.
ExpressboatscallintwicedailyontherunbetweenBergen(Nkr580,3½hours)andMåløy
(Nkr205, one hour).
If you're driving, the most scenic way north to Måløy by road is via Bremanger island.
KALVÅG
If you're travelling between Florø and Måløy via Bremanger island, do make the
5km detour from the ferry landing point at Smørhamn to the small, sensitively pre-
served fishing village of Kalvåg. Nowadays it's picture-postcard pretty and there's
just one giant fish-processing factory on its outskirts that operates when the herring
and mackerel shoals come near. But at its peak Kalvåg had over 50 herring salt
houses that employed a seasonal workforce of around 10,000. You can still visit a
couple of them; ask at the quayside
tourist office ( 481 40 488;
www.fordkysten.no
; 10am-6pm Mon-Fri, 10am-4pm Sat, noon-4pm Sun
Jul-mid-Aug, 10am-4pm Mon-Fri rest of year)
. To while away the time between
ferries, scoff a plate of shrimps, split some crab claws or down a beer, brewed spe-
cially for the restaurant, on the dockside terrace of
Knutholmen (
57 79 69 00;
www.knutholmen.no
,
in Norwegian;
8am-midnight)
with the fishing boats
right before you.
