Radka Stankova

Radka Stankova is the co-founder of Guide to Lofoten and the person behind most of the travel guides on this site. She lives in Reine, western Lofoten, where she guides sightseeing tours and joins the hikes now and then, mostly to prove that slow hikers get to the top too.

She started writing about Norway in 2015, with an angry article in Czech about tourists misusing the DNT mountain cabins. The route from there to Lofoten wasn’t exactly direct: oil and gas technology, then environmental chemistry, then a campervan trip down the Pan-American Highway that ended in Ushuaia when the pandemic hit.

In April 2021 she and Ivar moved to Fredvang to run a rorbu in a hundred-year-old fish factory. Guests kept asking the same questions. Where should we go? What will the weather do? Is Reinebringen safe in winter? How does the ferry actually work? Guide to Lofoten started as the answer to those questions, and that’s still how she writes. Every guide is built on what travellers ask us on tours and in our Facebook groups, and on what the team sees out on tours.

Expect honest takes on the weather, the ferries, Norwegian bureaucracy and the viewpoints that are more overhyped than extraordinary, usually with a bit of sarcasm.