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Northabout

Andalucia to Scotland then all things North Читать далее
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  • Mark HolbrookNorthaboutПутешественник

    Finland

    27 июля 2023 г., Финляндия ⋅ ☁️ 18 °C

    Just passing through....

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    Jeanne Latham

    ПутешественникWot! No rain...

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  • Mark HolbrookNorthaboutПутешественник

    The Dash

    27 июля 2023 г., Норвегия ⋅ ⛅ 16 °C

    So I have come a long way, 7000 km since I left and 500 km to the Cape....big push to get there tomorrow! Arctic Circle crossed today and I was expecting a cairn or something but nowt......since it moves every year maybe they don't bother. Lots more reindeer so since there are quite a lot I ate some....very, very nice as strip steak in pitta with pickles.Читать далее

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  • Mark HolbrookNorthaboutПутешественник

    Alta

    28 июля 2023 г., Норвегия ⋅ ☁️ 13 °C

    I finally see sea.. .3 hours to go

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    Jeanne Latham

    ПутешественникHappy birthday🎂🎂

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    Janet Kirby

    ПутешественникMany happy returns from Jan, Anne and family xx

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    Claire Proctor

    ПутешественникHappy Birthday Spike! Xx 😘

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    Sam Harrington Gibbons

    ПутешественникHapoy birthday from us too!

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  • Mark HolbrookNorthaboutПутешественник

    Stranda

    28 июля 2023 г., Норвегия ⋅ ☁️ 13 °C

    Becoming almost pilgrimage like

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    Jeanne Latham

    ПутешественникWell done! Time to head south again? X

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  • Mark HolbrookNorthaboutПутешественник

    Nordkapp

    28 июля 2023 г., Норвегия ⋅ ⛅ 11 °C

    Well I got here. And it isn't raining. And it's my birthday. And I didn't get arrested flying my drone. Now all I have to do is get back!

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  • Mark HolbrookNorthaboutПутешественник

    Skatsväg

    28 июля 2023 г., Норвегия ⋅ ⛅ 11 °C

    Just a pretty place

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  • Mark HolbrookNorthaboutПутешественник

    South

    29 июля 2023 г., Норвегия ⋅ ☁️ 10 °C

    Head South the GPS says.....first time I have heard that in a while

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  • Mark HolbrookNorthaboutПутешественник

    Daft

    29 июля 2023 г., Норвегия ⋅ 🌬 12 °C

    So now I am old I am allowed to be stupid. I brought all this camping stuff with me and since this is rest day and wild camping is allowed here I thought....'Why Not?'
    Well there are several reasons ' Why Not'

    It is 7C today
    It is blowing a hoolie
    The ground is covered in reindeer shit
    The beach is made out of big rocks and not sand

    So that is a yes then!

    Keen observers will note from the GPS that I am still well north of the arctic circle and the other idiot in a tent 2km away has a chimney!
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    Janet Kirby

    ПутешественникThought of you today, 36C, and on a real bike road between Ronda and Algeciras, not good for either of our shoulders though! X

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  • Mark HolbrookNorthaboutПутешественник

    Lakselv

    30 июля 2023 г., Норвегия ⋅ ☁️ 11 °C

    Well sleeping under the stars I the Arctic was not all it was cracked up to be: There were no stars because it was light all the time; It rained then sleet; Having a crap on the foreshore watched by Reindeeri the rain not pleasant. Stopped here to get some coffee because they said 'Open' they lied.Читать далее

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    Janet Kirby

    ПутешественникPoor Spike, how you suffer to enjoy yourself. I'm sat in gentle sunshine, having toast and coffee overlooking the bay of Gibraltar, but would have loved to do what you are doing if able x

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    Mark Holbrook

    ПутешественникWell it is a strange thing...Why?... I guess it has everything to do with getting old and wondering when things will break to the extent that I cannot do stuff.....I admit to being very lonely and a bit depressed on my own so it has meant even more than otherwise to have you guys interested on what I am doing.....Now I wonder where Alfredos lives...

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    Janet Kirby

    ПутешественникWill teach me to be smart, got a bit miffed in hospital here when people couldn't understand why I had no one with me. X

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    Jeanne Latham

    ПутешественникOh dear! Just get south again and then you can gloat over having achieved what you set out to do!

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  • Mark HolbrookNorthaboutПутешественник

    Goodbye Norway

    30 июля 2023 г., Норвегия ⋅ ☁️ 16 °C

    Well so it is Goodbye to Norway....I wonder if I will ever come back. Rain every day except the two that really mattered: Pulpit Rock and Nordkapp. It has been fun.......but wet!

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  • Mark HolbrookNorthaboutПутешественник

    Vuotso

    31 июля 2023 г., Финляндия ⋅ ☁️ 15 °C

    A Petrol Station...... with Sauna!

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    Carsten Alsloew

    ПутешественникFinland is fantastic 👍

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    Mark Holbrook

    ПутешественникYes it is....and the beer is cheaper too!

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    Jeanne Latham

    ПутешественникBut not used by you.....! Interested in your route back south. By the way - it’s rained just about every day here too. We’ve now had over 200% of our normal July rain.

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  • Mark HolbrookNorthaboutПутешественник

    Kemi

    1 августа 2023 г., Финляндия ⋅ ☁️ 16 °C

    Woke up to thunder storm....On with the waterproofs again!

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    Claire Proctor

    ПутешественникOh no! 💥💦 xx

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  • Mark HolbrookNorthaboutПутешественник

    Ryönä

    1 августа 2023 г., Финляндия ⋅ ☁️ 22 °C

    Well the thunderstorms passed.....well they pissed and passed and now I am in a basic but waterproof shed!

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    Jeanne Latham

    ПутешественникMight be small and basic, but better than a one man tent! Looks great. You’re getting on pretty quickly. Hope you made contact with Alfredas and Eglé. looks like a pretty spot. x

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    Mark Holbrook

    ПутешественникI did....they are to the east of the country which is a shame but I will visit. Unpleasant ride today, many, many cameras and deliberately set to catch you out so the lorry drivers just sit at the lower limit because the camera is set so close to the speed reduction sign that you have to brake really hard....so they just don't bother.

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    Janet Kirby

    ПутешественникI wonder where all the beautiful lakes come from? On my drive back from Gib yesterday the only water i saw was in the Guadalquivir

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  • Mark HolbrookNorthaboutПутешественник

    Lahti

    2 августа 2023 г., Финляндия ⋅ 🌧 20 °C

    Jan asked where all the beautiful lakes come from: Here is the Answer! I have an hour yet to ride through this.

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    Jeanne Latham

    ПутешественникNo better here💦💦💦💨💨💦

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  • Mark HolbrookNorthaboutПутешественник

    Kiljava

    3 августа 2023 г., Финляндия ⋅ ☁️ 15 °C

    Well this was lovely. Since more downpours yesterday I picked a place to stay on the basis that it was 1 hour from the port and the cheapest.....so I ended up here! The hotel looks 'soviet' but in great condition, everything works, clean but huge! It must hace 300 rooms spread over 5 buildings. It has a geothermal warm freshwater lake, swimming pool, gym, 3 saunas and one guest! It seems it is owned by a trade union and used for conferences.Читать далее

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  • Mark HolbrookNorthaboutПутешественник

    Nearly Off

    3 августа 2023 г., Финляндия ⋅ ☁️ 17 °C

    Well that was horrible. To get to the port you have to drive through Helsinki and they are digging it up. The traffic is flowing but all the normal roads are closed. My trouble started where the GPS said turn right.....I was next to the rail tracks and the turn was steep and down....so down I go and I come to a barrier under the road and it is pitch black. There is a credit card swipe so I think MB this is the entrance to a toll road. On I go into darkness. GPS now dead. Then there is a blue motorway sign to the right....the turn is up and very steep. I turn, commit to the slope (ie rev and go) I go round a bend and come to a closed barrier across the slope. Well, it is half closed, so I back up on the slope and with much clutch burning wriggle under the barrier......and find myself on top of an abandoned car park! I stop.....walk down the ramp I have just come up it is the only way down.....I break the barrier (everything here is made of wood) I recon the next floor with a torch and find another ramp with a building site the other side and cones I can get through back on to a road.....and so I escape.Читать далее

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    😵‍💫 a horrid experience, xx [Claire Proctor]

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    Mark Holbrook

    ПутешественникYes.......much shaking.........complicated by the fact that every sign is in three Slavic languages and two scripts.....none of which match the GPS instructions.......all shook up!

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    Claire Proctor

    ПутешественникSounds challenging, Spike, xx 🙂

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    Mark Holbrook

    ПутешественникYes. I didn't do very well. If the traffic had been backed up then maybe I could have had time to consider rather than just follow the GPS

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    Claire Proctor

    ПутешественникAll part of the challenging trip, xx

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  • Mark HolbrookNorthaboutПутешественник

    Tallinn

    4 августа 2023 г., Эстония ⋅ ☁️ 19 °C

    Well it has been wet. Very Wet. I set off for the Old Town early to try and take advantage of lulls between the downpours and it worked. I flew my drone in sunshine! Then the water came.....the gutters drain directly onto the pavements so everything floods in just a few minutes.Читать далее

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    Pärnu

    5 августа 2023 г., Эстония ⋅ ☁️ 20 °C

    I came here just to see some Estonia outside of Tallinn....most of the houses single storey wood with wriggly tin (but nice wriggly tin) roofs.

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  • Mark HolbrookNorthaboutПутешественник

    Limbazi

    5 августа 2023 г., Латвия ⋅ ☁️ 21 °C

    I see sea again!

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    Riga

    5 августа 2023 г., Латвия ⋅ ☁️ 22 °C

    Well.....A couple of soviet style watch towers and I was in Latvia. I guess you don't have to like everywhere and boy I don't think much of this place. First of all I hear Russian everywhere.... I know I shouldn't but I cringe.....I do the same thing with an Ulster accent ....it is almost a visceral reaction.....the Northern Irish from my whole life having been exposed to the Troubles but the Russian thing is recent and obviously due to Ukraine. Then there is the driving.. quite appalling....the road I traveled here on was a simple two sided single way highway and the drivers paid no attention to the speed limit, the cameras, the road markings or it seems Me.......countless times I see an Audi or BMW in my lane overtaking and closing on me at 200 Km/h and for fucks sake flashing for me to brake and pull over! So my appreciation of this land and its people.....or at least it's drivers....suitably coloured. I shall fuck off south 2moro.Читать далее

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    Antazavė

    6 августа 2023 г., Литва ⋅ ☀️ 29 °C

    Lunch with Egle and Alfredas.....Pink Soup!....it was cold Borscht and absolutely delicious. Fascinating to see their home in the 'Policies' of an old manor......including carp breeding pond!

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    Trakai

    7 августа 2023 г., Литва ⋅ ⛅ 22 °C

    Very crowded so I took the shot at dawn.

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    Claire Proctor

    ПутешественникNo rain?! Xx 😘

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    Sam Harrington Gibbons

    ПутешественникHow beautiful is that!

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  • Mark HolbrookNorthaboutПутешественник

    More Rain

    8 августа 2023 г., Польша ⋅ 🌬 17 °C

    That cloud has my name on it. So...full waterproofs out again....windy too

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    Kari Blackmore

    ПутешественникBring it here with you; we're parched!

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    Mark Holbrook

    ПутешественникWell...I am headed your way!

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    Jakuszyce

    8 августа 2023 г., Польша ⋅ ☁️ 13 °C

    I should have had faith and just camped here on the Polish side of the border

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    Harrachov

    8 августа 2023 г., Чехия ⋅ ☁️ 14 °C

    In search of a beer I can buy with Euros! Still failing! Oh.....and the hotel is a building site so it is very cheap!

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