The day started with a nice downhill section from the hotel, then got somewhat damp and cooler. Once we left the E6, traffic quietened down and the road followed a winding river down to sea level. We stopped for our first “proper” touring lunch at a petrol station – pølse und Cola! 🙂 The bridge …
Another wonderful day’s cycling, from Sortland to Andenes, the scenic route (of course). Grey and drizzly, but what a fantastic scenery. The only dampener was the shortage of cafés. The first one after 39k wasn’t open yet, the second after 51k didn’t open today at all (despite saying online they did), so we made do …
Does this look familiar? We’ve continued our journey at the exact spot where we pressed the pause button in September: in front of the Havmannen sculpture in Mo i Rana. The weather was a dream, perfect to ease us back into travelling mode. We soon left the industrial town behind and ventured up the fairly …
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It’s a fair old journey from Devon to Nordland! I finished work early on Friday after a very early morning start (3:30, thanks to being on call) and took a stroll through sunny Plymouth to the coach station. I thought a little leg stretcher was in order before the 5 hour squeeze on the National …
(Oops. 3 days before starting the second half of our Norge på langs tour, I realised that I never wrote up the last day of the first half.) So what happened on Day 16? We had a somewhat perfunctory breakfast in our room at Havblikk Camping, then started the long climb up from Nesna onto …
Breakfast in Forvik to the smell and sound of roasting coffee. Ferry #1 Forvik – Tjøtta Rainy ride 1/2: Tjøtta – Sandnessjøen. Pølse! Rainy ride 2/2: Sandnessjøen – Levang Nice restaurant closed, burger & beer instead.
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We chose porridge for breakfast, a good choice given the cold and hilly next 50km, and packed a few sandwiches, which would come in rather handy later in the day. I had a bit of a miserable start to the day, feeling the previous day’s miles over my seat bones, and not feeling the love …
A good Scandic Hotel breakfast can set you up for a long day’s cycling, and this one was no exception. A bit of confusion about which ferry we had planned to take merely added a little interest to our route – and a bit of mileage and elevation, just like the wrong turn at the …
I’m still feeling kind, so won’t mention the hotel breakfast in Støren. Instead, I will say it was a nice, warm late summer’s day, and we set off “short-short” and even stopped to take off our vests (well, t-shirts) from underneath our jerseys! We decided to take it really leisurely and happily accepted the offer …
Tuesday morning greeted us with sunshine, an excellent breakfast, and the prospect of a shortish ride of 70-odd km on the E6 to Berkåk, where we had booked a room. We started off down the hill and couldn’t quite believe how much more fun it was in the sunshine! We made such good time, that …
“I really want to cross the Dovrefjell on the E6”, said Andreas. So we did. On a grey, cold day like this, it wasn’t the greatest cycling experience of our tour, although the fjell itself (and the Rondane on the other side of the road) were still worth the effort. Next time, we’d plan in …
Spoilt for choice. The Norwegians know how to do breakfast. To be followed by a leisurely and sunny 80k ride along (ok: up) a river valley. Later there was some nice cruising until we came to a great chillinplace
As I was In sweet dreams , Thorsten had to get up early to catch the bus. We were curious about whether the tandem would get on the bus too – but as he wrote on fb: Hurdle number one taken with ease: the tandem and I are safely on board the 501 to LHR, thanks …
One week to go. Time to get nearly everything weighed, packed, and ready to roll. The tandem is of course the greatest worry, as I’ll hand it over at Heathrow Airport. I think I made a decent job of packing it back into the box it came in, but we’ll only know when we get …