Cruising the Lofoten Islands with Google Earth

I am returning to the Lofoten Islands for a two week cycling holiday, and I can't stop thinking about the trip. Perviously (twice recently) it has been me alone on my bike, but this time all three of us are going, again with bicycles. We fly from Heathrow next Saturday, and in my spare time I am going back through the packing list removing any items from the pile which we can do without, so that we travel as light as possible.

The photo above comes from Ernst Christen's website, which has some lovely pictures on it but is rather difficult to navigate around. I've found that a better tool for navigation is the fabulous earth.google.com, which reopened a week or two ago and gives me a stunning view of many of the places I've cycled (especially good for Australia and New Zealand). If you haven't tried it, you have to give it a go! I've decided I'll be taking our smallest lightest GPS with me, because I can see that in a few years' time the GIS database behind the site will be packed with information.