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    Just want to add our voices to Michel’s. Lofoten is very crowded on the main roads. We try to get up early to do busy sections and this works very well. The most dangerous experience we had was the Nappstraumtunnelen, which we did around midday. It’s 2km long so we didn’t want to walk the entire thing inhaling the fumes. So we thought we would cycle down, but walk up. However, the footpath was on the wrong side and too dangerous to cross over. So we held up the very impatient traffic, some of whom leaned on their horns to express their feelings, adding to the already overwhelming sound reverberating around the tunnel. The nusfjord-ballstad ferry was too expensive for us. We can see there is no easy fix for this, except to make sure you do it early in the morning.