Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
This lovely option with its small beach beside a constructed lake is great for children.
Around 10km southwest of Brønnøysund, it's handy for an ascent of the Torghatten peak.
Galeasen Hotell
HOTEL
( 75 00 88 50;
www.galeasen.com
; Havnegata 32-36; s/d from Nkr950/1250)
The 22-room Galeasen sits right beside the quay and runs a small restaurant. Ask for a
room in the more recent main building, not the less-attractive annexe, which occupies a
converted fish-processing plant.
Information
Tourist Office
TOURIST INFORMATION
( 75 01 80 00;
www.visithelgeland.com
; 9am-7pm Mon-Fri, noon-6pm Sat & Sun mid-Jun-mid-
Aug, shorter hours Mon-Fri and closed Sat & Sun rest of year)
Brønnøysund's tourist office is one block from the Hurtigruten quay. It rents bicycles
(Nkr175 per day).
Getting There & Away
Widerøe
(
www.wideroe.no
) flies to Brønnøysund from Trondheim, Oslo and Bergen;
the most common approach route passes right over Torghatten and the azure seas that
lap around it.
Up to three buses run between Brønnøysund and Sandnessjøen (Nkr275, 3½ hours,
daily except Sunday) and to/from Mosjøen (three hours, once or twice daily except
Saturday).
Brønnøysund is also a port for the Hurtigruten coastal ferry.
Vega
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The island of Vega remains a very Norwegian destination (we were the only non-nationals
on our ferry journeys to and from the island). It and the more than 6000 skerries, islets and
simply large rocks that form the Vega archipelago are a Unesco World Heritage Site. This
