I had thought that since Spring is just round the corner (although I’m not so sure having looked at the forecast for this weekend), I should finally write up about the winter bike ride in northern Scandinavia… (Feel free to skip the writing and go straight to the end where there’s a short video Shane [...]
Still no real blog post, but do not worry – Here are some more photos from the 3-weeks of biking and camping in northern Sweden, Finland and Norway… Hopefully they speak for themselves. If you haven’t seen the photos of the beautiful landscapes we biked through that I posted last week, they’re here.
Until I get chance to write a proper blog post about the trip, here’s a taster with some of my favourite views from the 3 week bike ride from Kiruna in Sweden to Tromso in Norway. Enjoy….
So I’m getting rather excited and with just the occasional fit of doubt, which may be more aptly described as ‘bricking it’. In only 15 more days I shall be landing in Kiruna in the far north of Sweden to meet up with Shane for a 3 week cycle ride, taking an indirect route, to [...]
Having spent the day in the Peak District, we drove across to Wales. Lars was keen to bag a peak, so it had to be Snowdon. We had an easier time finding a campsite in the dark and even chanced upon a pub serving cheap curry, which sounded (and tasted) far better than the noodles [...]
The last ten days Lars Bengtsson has been visiting. We made a whistlestop tour round the south of England and Wales. The first few days were particularly beautiful, if somewhat on the chilly side, but that didn’t stop us. The benefit of having the car was we could go camping, luxury style – duvet included. [...]
On my bookshelf at home are some old photo albums, from the days when cameras came with film and you got prints of your images. Today I took a look at one of them – It was of a two week ‘family’ holiday without the parents (so that’s me and my sister) to Andalucia in [...]
I had a vague plan to write a regular blog while I was in the UK, but alas, time is flying by and it’s one of the many things I have failed to do. I blame the book-writing. Really there is nothing to blame but me. The book-writing started well. I kept up my 10,000 [...]
The Pingo Trail. Not to be confused with Pingu, the cartoon penguin. There are no penguins in Norfolk. There are lots of pingos though. ‘Pingos were originally low hillocks that formed 20,000 years ago during the last ice age when water beneath the surface froze to form lenses of ice pushing soil upwards. During the [...]
Having taken the overnight ferry from Ancona in Italy, I arrived in Split as the sun rose. Another short boat ride and I was on the island of Hvar, where I’ve been for the last ten days, staying at another friend’s house in the old town, Stari Grad. It has been the perfect retreat for [...]
