Timber house in Lyngen

First thing to know, you absolutely need a car to travel and organise around staying here. It is remote (nearest and only supermarket on the island is 40 min away), but that is one thing my wife and I really loved about it. That info aside, the house is a self-organized traveler's dream. One can see that it was built with a "no-expenses-spared mentality", really for someone to feel cozy here. The centerpiece is the second floor, where the living area, kitchen and terrace are. The magnificent fjord view extends from the yard, into the terrace, living room, TV nook, and even in the bathroom and sauna (yes you get a nice fjord view even in the private sauna). By the way, there are 3 baths, all with showers and floor heating. The kitchen is fully equipped, there is not one thing we wanted and was missing, including stove, oven, dishwasher. There is even a big refrigerated room in case large groups want to spend some time here. Best of all, the exact spot of this place is very quiet and away from a big city (little to no light pollution meant that we could enjoy seeing the northern lights simply from the terrace/yard/living room of the house). The house is maybe 30m away from the road that passes through the village, but there is little to no traffic on this road so it simply brings the benefit of being easily connected to the more important road (maybe 2 kms away). The Lyngen Alps are also visible from the road, it makes for a majestic backdrop to the whole cabin's setting and of course gives some opportunity to do some very nice hikes. Though we didn't use it, the house also has a mudroom, with ski/equipment drying racks, so I think it's also really great in the winter and doing XCountry skiing. The house's heating system seems to be electric only (which means energy must be really cheap) As such, the entire house was kept warm quite easily.

The bed in the master bedroom is wooden (read: squeaky) and the mattresses were not to our liking. But easy fix: we switched into a room with boxspring beds since there are plenty of bedrooms.