The coast of Norway holds a variety of attractions for the visitor: narrow fjords, fishing villages in unfeasibly beautiful settings, pickled fish for breakfast, and stunning rock formations. Today found our intrepid guests exploring one of these last features at Torghatten, just south of the Arctic Circle. Here, in a rounded mountain of caledonian granite, we hiked up to what is known to the layman as a great big hole in a rock. And although the hole is several hundred feet above sea level, it is actually a sea cave that was pounded out by waves when the land was lower. (Land in these areas of former glaciation is gradually rising now that the enormous weight of a continental ice sheet has been removed.) The hike took us up an established trail through a low forest of birch and wildflowers, with the final rise to the hole over a series of natural stone steps. The views from the top were magnificent and we were able to look right through the mountain to the many islands that cluster around the coast here.