Summer holiday - part 2

After spending the weekend at the cabin we headed for Dønna, where my boyfriends mother lives. Only a couple of hours driving this time. Dønna is a island on the coast of Helgeland. If you want to read more about Helgeland and Dønna you can read about it here. Maybe you want to visit this place sometimes.

The next two photos is taken on top of Sjonfjellet (Sjon mountain).

A beautiful wiew over to Glein where we are staying the next two weeks.

One evening there was such beautiful weather and we decided to go to Dønnesfjellet (The Dønnes mountain) It offers a fantastic view. In good conditions you can see Rødøy in the north and Vega in the south, together with most of the characteristic mountains found along the coast of Helgeland. I'll show you some of them.

This is Dønnamannen (The Dønna man). A mountain with a very special profile. If you lean your head to the right you can see the profile of a man lying there. Do you see him?

Syv Søstre (Seven sisters). It is possible to reach the seven tops in one days, and this trip will take about 14 hours. Do not think this is a goal for me :)

Wiew out to Tomma.

This photo is taken late in the evening at 22:00. You can see the sun is still shining. This is a wiew out to Løkta.

They also have a bathing beach at Dønna called Breivika. No bath for me this day. Too windy and cold :)

And I think you see what this is a photo of LOL It's North Europs biggest marble stone phallus, 89 cm high and 50 cm in diameter. It is standing on top on a very old burial mound.

Dønnes church is one of the three middleage churches on the Helgeland coast. Build in stone and with a specific architecture. The church was buildt at 1100's, so it is very old. It also have a mausoleum build at 1600's. I have never been inside this church, but I will next time.

Now our vacation on Dønna is over and we are on the ferry from Dønna to Sandnessjøen. Another photo of the Seven Sister mountains.

It feels good to be back home and back to normal routines. This morning I have been reading blogs and mails. And I see there is a lot of beautiful quilts made while I've been away. I look forward to clean up my sewing room now and start on my projekts again. I have done a lot of sewing while being on my vacation, show you in my next post. Next week I have been allowed to start working 20%, and I look forward to that too. Will do that until my surgery august 22nd.

Now............heading in to my sewinroom to check my treasures there :) I got some really goodies in my mail when I came back home. Show you later ............teasing teasing teasing :)

Saying for today:

The only thing self-cleaning in this house is the cat