Sweden was another new country to us, and one that we’d heard mixed things about, generally that there is not a huge amount to see and we should spend more time in Norway! So our expectations were low. But due to the weather being crap in northern Norway, and Sweden…
We didn’t know much about Norway, and we didn’t really have many expectations. We’ve known enough people doing similar trips to know it isn’t that tough, but still didn’t know many answers before we left. So some of our thoughts:- Food and entertainment is very expensive. Think 2-3x UK prices…
Trip index page is HERE and all photos from this trip are HERE Week 5 started with us waking up in the very quiet Skuleskoggen national park after a good walk and nights sleep the day before. A few other vans were parked overnight around the corner, but felt like we…
Trip index page is HERE and all photos from this trip are HERE Our fourth week started with the same dreary cold, wet and windy weather. Not overly wet but buffeting winds and chillingly cold with low clouds, sort of makes looking at the Lofotens a bit pointless. The weather was…
Trip index page is HERE and all photos from this trip are HERE Our third week starts by leaving Trondheim and continuing northward, but the journey out for the first hour or so is fast and dull – really quite uninspiring and quite tiring. The countryside has been a lot less…
Trip index page is HERE and all photos from this trip are HERE We hit Bergen on the Sunday which meant we were able to finda small pay & display area right in the centre that was free! Phew – otherwise £3/h. Bergen was very very touristy, full of cruise ship…
Trip index page is HERE and all photos from this trip are HERE Seems an age since we talked about getting up to the arctic circle, but at last, we’re on our way! Many things delayed this trip but as its such a long drive, we’re glad we’re now in a…
For trip index click HERE – for all photos of trip see HERE After fixing the bike cover we headed to Dresden where there are 3 permitted motorhome areas close to the old town, and bizarrely we chose the same as last time we were here! That’s not changed much,…
For trip index click HERE – for all photos of trip see HERE Between Harz and the east there isn’t really very much, so we headed direct to Leipzig. The motorway network appears all new, and even the 2016 GPS maps on the van didn’t have them all – TomTom…
For trip index click HERE – for all photos of trip see HERE After our long bike ride to the med, we decided we needed another holiday to recover. Sadly, time was not our friend so our plans of visiting Scandinavia were put back again – and we had to…