Table and sea
There is one restaurant, one bar and one sauna. This saves a great deal of deciding.
Naust
Twenty-two seats at one long table. One menu. Dinner is at seven and takes the evening.
A naust is a boathouse, and the kitchen works like one: what comes in on the boat is what there is. Skrei in winter, when the cod come down from the Barents Sea. King crab. Langoustine from the sound. Lamb from the next island, which has grass. Seaweed, cloudberries, brown cheese, and bread from four o'clock that morning.
Tell Molly what you don't eat and the kitchen will cook around it without a fuss.
Breakfast
Long. Until eleven. Cardamom buns, smoked fish, eggs, porridge with butter. In the Lamp Room it comes up the weight shaft.
The Keeper's Bar
Aquavit, good wine, a short list of things stirred properly. A person tends it until the last guest leaves. After that Otto does, and he pours a very steady coffee at two in the morning for anyone waiting on the sky.
What there is to do
Less than you'd think, on purpose.
- Aurora watch
- Tell Molly you want waking. When the Watch sees it coming she lights a single lamp by your bed, and that is all.
- The sauna
- At the end of the jetty, with one window and a ladder into the sea. The ladder is optional.
- Sea kayaks
- Between the skerries with the guide, on any day the water is flat enough to see the kelp.
- Sea eagles
- Lillemor goes out most mornings. The eagles know her and are not impressed.
- Fishing
- Skrei in winter, coalfish in summer. The kitchen will cook what you catch, and say so on the menu.
- The 84 steps
- The gallery of the Light is open at dusk unless the Lamp Room is taken. Then it is theirs.
Come when the weather does.
Opening 1 February 2027. The diary is open now. Two nights or more.