Norway
Sundvollen
Last night our new neighbours Phil and Steph kindly invited us to watch the football in their van as they could pick up ITV. Unfortunately the England team couldn’t overcome Croatia, but they did themselves proud and hopefully this will be the start of a new era for the international team. Today has been a … Read more
Bergen
For the past few days we’ve been staying on a lovely campsite just outside Bergen, parked in front of a lake. It’s a beautiful setting. The campsite has a TV room, where we watched England beat Sweden in the World Cup quarter finals. As the campsite is so good we decided that we’d stay until … Read more
Flåm
We left Bretung Melkevoll reluctantly, having spent a wonderful three nights there. It’s easily one of the best campsites we’ve stayed at, and the walk up to the glacier will be one of the highlights of our trip. Yesterday we drove 200-odd km to Flåm (the little ° changes the pronunciation to Flom), and the … Read more
Oldedalen
We made an early start, and were second in the queue at Gerainger for the 9:30 ferry to Hellesylt. Two cruise ships were anchored out in the fjord, with 20 or more coaches waiting for the passengers who were being brought ashore in small boats. I don’t think that I could ever go on a … Read more
Geiranger
Our next stop after Ålesund was Åndalsnes, some 110 km inland. It’s a small town and there’s not much there, but it’s a good starting point for the Trollstigen to Geiranger scenic route. The only thing worthy of note on the journey is that we were stung for €27 to cross a (not very grand) … Read more
Kristiansund and Ålesund
On Wednesday we drove about three quarters of the way from Trondheim to Kristiansund, and stopped for the night close to the Halsa ferry. We should have paid 100 NOK, but nobody called to ask for the money so we had another night of free camping – which is a good job as we clocked … Read more
Trondheim
We completed our 700 km journey south to Trondheim yesterday. From reading other blogs we’d expected the scenery to be quite dull and boring, but it was much better than the scenery driving through northern Finland. There were loads of roadworks going on all along the E6 which did slow us down a bit, and … Read more
From Bodø to Grong
The Moskenes to Bodø ferry crossing took around three hours. Although the sea was calm, it was way too cold and windy to spend much time on deck, so we whiled away the time indoors. We were parked right at the front of the ferry and so were the first vehicle to drive off. Our … Read more
From Bleik to Hamnøy
We left the campsite at Bleik four days ago, but it seems much longer than that. The weather had become wet and very windy, so we didn’t get to see any puffins or white-tailed sea eagles unfortunately. Leaving Bleik we retraced our steps along the same roads back to Sigerfjordveien, and the view was different … Read more