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Day 9 and still no Internet access, but I’ve decided to carry on writing this blogs locally on my laptop. We had a lot of mileage to make up today so by 9am we were all ready and leaving the camp following the E6 through Norway. Over the past few days we have been climbing mountains but today we climbed the mother of all mountains. We have been cruising along at about 55mph until we hit a few mountains with gradients of up to 9%. The road meandered around the mountain and so there was...

Today started bright and early as we had around 400 miles to do as today we were adamant that we would reach the North Cape. Starting off we visited the first garage to refuel (yet again) and carried on driving North. The further we get the greater the distance in between petrol stations. We had to catch another ferry but unlike the day before we missed it by literally a minute or so and as a result had to wait and hour and a half for the next one, this took us across to the small islands...

10 days of riding like demons throughout Europe were finalised today when we reached our goal – the North Cape. After a good nights sleep and even a bit of a sleep in we left camp at 11:30am and travelled the remaining 12 miles to the North Cape – the furthest point in Europe, or as they seem to say around here, the land of the midnight sun. I was expecting the North Cape to just be a monument stuck on the edge of the world but it was quite touristy with a little museum, restaurant,...

Our last night at the North Cape was a rather wet and windy affair with rain all through the night. We awoke bright and early to the sound of a Bond Bug being started up as Richard left camp early to go into the town to have his radius arm welded as it had broken away from the chassis. Geoff and I left before everyone else to go into a local gift shop that was packed with a couch load of tourist all buying stuff that they really didn’t want or need buy just did so as it had a picture...

As we were going to a diffrent home point to the rest of the team we were parting company. So Elvis and I were up at 8 and showered then packed all our things up ready to leave for 9. We waited untill folks were up to say our goodbyes then a Sleeply Richard poped his head out of his tent and then Jeff did the same so we went over to say good buy and then Ivan got up so we said good buy to him as well. Rory was not up yet so we asked the others to say good buy for us. We planed our route to go...

Last night’s camp site at Skelleftea (Sweden) was one of the quietest and indeed nicest camp sites we have been to so far though whilst eating breakfast I clonked my head on the corner of the open tail gate. It isn’t the first time though this time whilst leaning forward to eat my boiled egg, blood starting to drip on the plate. I then discovered my head was leaking. Geoff rushed out with a first aid kit though all that was needed was lots of tissue paper to soak it up. I don’t think...

When we broke camp this morning the last thing we expected to encounter was the Artic, we thought we had done that when we crossed the Arctic Circle. For the first few miles things were fine and then suddenly in our view looming mountains covered in snow loomed in our direction. We thought we had done all the tough stuff and that this was the easy way home but infront of us was the mother of all mountains and the AI Robot inside our Sat Nav was insisting we cross it to get to Bergen. So...

Well a lot happened to day we errrrrr, OK we did almost nothing but chill. The rain has been almost non stop so we just walked to Spar to get some food and do a little picture taking then headed back to camp. I gave New Blue a check over but all was fine (It’s great that we have covered 4600 miles and I have used no water and no oil). The site we are on is well laid out even if it is expensive and our tent is right out side the Laundromat as they say here as well as the toilets and the...

I’ve decided, Norway is like Blackpool in that it always rains. On Day 17, the rain was pouring down and not just in a dainty way but a soak you through in five seconds way. I decided to sit in the tent and surf the Internet though during a dry spell Geoff decided to go and climb a mountain to look at some waterfalls. He came back about 5 hours later exhausted and dripping wet with stories of huge waterfalls galore. His adventure sounded grand, though looking at him, I was glad I...

Well bright and early on Day 20 we caught the 25 hour ferry from Bergen across to Newcastle.  Thankfully the North Sea was exceptionally calm and Geoff and I had a rather nice little cabin with onsuite shower and toilet.  It was tiny but compared with the tent we have been living in for the last thre weeks it was like a 5 star hotel.   We arrived back in the UK on Day 21 at about 11am and then started the 180 mile trip back to Tamworth.   We thought we would hit traffic jams galore but...

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