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 …