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carpets simulate a railway track and each of its thirty rooms has the name of a station -
commemorates the local teacher and priest who convinced the government to build the
Nordlandsbanen railway connecting Trondheim with Fauske and Bodø. As well as break-
fast year-round and free beverages, summer tariffs include a light evening meal.
Stålkameratøne
HOSTEL €
( 41 92 62 15; Stålbrakka, Søderlundmyra; dm Nkr200, s/d with shared bathroom
Nkr350/500; mid-Jun-mid-Aug; )
Mo's biggest bargain is just off the first left
bend of the E6, heading northwards. This hostel has four plainly furnished single rooms,
occupied by students during the school year, an eight-bed dorm and a couple of doubles.
ARCTIC MENU
To guarantee yourself a good meal in northern Norway, visit a restaurant affiliated to
the Arctic Menu scheme. Members, who range from small, family-owned concerns
to the restaurants of chain hotels, undertake to use the region's natural ingredients. It
may be a sauce simmered with local berries; an Arctic char pulled from the icy wa-
ters; reindeer, seal, whale or, of course, cod - every last bit of it from the rich flesh to
local delicacies such as the cheek, roe, liver, stomach or tongue.
You'll find such restaurants indicated within each town's Eating section. The
scheme's website (
www.arktiskmeny.no
) has a full list of its 40 or so participants
and most tourist offices carry its booklet. This comes complete with a few recipes so
you can try a dish or two out back home - if, that is, you can get those fresh, northern
Norway ingredients…
Eating
Forliquidpicnics,bothBunnprissupermarketandVinmonopoletarejustsouthofthetour-
ist office.
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