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30 May 2018
On our ferry to Poland we made use of our time and put together a rough agenda of the Eastern European leg of our tour. This is just letting you know our plans should you want to come to join us at any stage – obviously it’s subject to change! We are also open to […]
24 May 2018
So, for a country of this sort of size and small population you’d think that navigating the road system in Sweden would be pretty easy. Now let me tell you…. If you throw into the mix that you are cycling and don’t want to use any major roads because of the heavy and often dangerous […]
18 May 2018
And relax we have! We didn’t actually see our AirBnB host until day three so we had the run of an Oslo city-centre flat for most of the duration of our visit, which we cannot complain about! The weather has been absolutely amazing since we have been in Norway, but particularly during our stay in […]
10 May 2018
As mentioned we were up early so that we could get the ferry across to Kragero town at 8:15. The next ferry was at 11:45 so we really wanted to get the early one or else it would ‘waste’ half the day. We’d seen the ferry port the day before and it was about 4km […]
7 May 2018
When you look at a map and try to figure out where you think you can get on a bike each day to it is very easy to over- or underestimate this. We came from flat countries where the going was tough when the wind was against us, but the rest of the time it […]
4 May 2018
As we have mentioned over the past 3 days we’ve cracked a few monster hills and it has been a temperature regulation learning curve. By that I mean that at the bottom of the hill things are good, if a bit chilly, it is after all Norway in early May. We generally have our outer […]