Well it’s over. After 92 days and just over 7,000 miles, we’re heading home. It’s a multi phased journey. Swapping hire cars, dropping off the motorhome for storage. And a long, long drive to Heathrow […]

Well it’s over. After 92 days and just over 7,000 miles, we’re heading home. It’s a multi phased journey. Swapping hire cars, dropping off the motorhome for storage. And a long, long drive to Heathrow […]
On to Santa’s village! How fitting that Santa lives in Lappland, a name that still seems quite unreal to me. Finland continues its beautiful landscape of forests and still waters. Today’s forests are mainly […]
Up not so bright and early. Sitting in the car doing very little is exhausting it seems. Chris is always reliably there to coax me out of bed with a coffee. Those who do […]
We bid farewell to Norway today, driving through the last of the Finnmark region via the E6 and crossing through to Finland. It’s a grey drizzly day, which is just as well as we spend […]
What comes up must come down, and it so today that we commence our journey south. But before this, the morning delivers the most perfect blue skies, ideal for exploring Nordkapp. We’ve been so lucky, […]
By my reckoning, today is about the mid point of our time away. It’s fitting then, that we will hit the apex of our trip, Nordkapp, the northern most point of Norway and Europe. Chris […]
Talk about an action packed day. Chris wakes me to the news that there’s a dolphin feeding in the bay. It’s a bleary eyed dash (damn those bright night skies) to the fjord shore, binoculars […]
Our travels today prove that everything north is indeed on a grander scale. Simply put, everything is bigger. The mountains are taller and endless, the expanses of water akin to sea, drifts of ice have […]
After yesterday’s cold it’s a glorious blue sky day and back to t-shirt weather. All the best better to explore Tromso with. No bike/bridge terror today, we take the motorhome over it and tunnel in. […]
Well that will teach me for commenting on how mild the weather has been. Today’s weather is straight off the ice, a chilly 10° without the wind chill factor. Fabulous! Arctic weather at last! I […]