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1 May 2018
Weather-wise it wasn’t really the start that we wanted as we left Stavanger – dull with some pretty big downpours. It was a public holiday, so the roads were really clear and we were up and out by just past 8am. It’s nice in a schadenfreude kind of way to see that other countries have […]
30 April 2018
Up early on a cold but brilliantly sunny day to take the ferry and bus to Preikestolen (Pulpit Rock) on the Lysefjord. A 45-minute crossing, followed by a 30-minute bus ride to the start of the 2-hour hike that would take us to Pulpit Rock for what promised to after amazing views of the fjord. […]
29 April 2018
So after 9 days in Denmark, here are our main take-aways: 1. The Danish are the most patriotic nation we have come across yet…the Dutch had flagpoles but the Danes have flags – everywhere. Flying proudly in the wind, because it is windy. 2. Supposedly for a nation of bacon, we saw no pigs, in […]
28 April 2018
The road (or bike path as it happens) to the port town of Hirtshals is long and very straight – have a look on a map and you’ll see that nit basically comes out of Aalborg and heads straight as an arrow north to Hirtshals for the best part of 70km. This was always going […]
27 April 2018
Departed base a bit later than our usual starts and had a short ride to our first ferry of the day to take us to the small island of Mors. We were the only people on the Naessund ferry and the very helpful ferryman spent the 15-minute journey telling us about the island and what […]
23 April 2018
Well, no one caught us during our ‘rogue’ camping and we woke and sorted out our camp in the same way as we would have done in any other campsite – to be honest at this point if someone had told us to poke off we wouldn’t have minded as we’d already slept there and […]