Ferry and Tulips
7 mai, Pays-Bas ⋅ ☀️ 11 °C
Calm Hull Rotterdam crossing. Nice cabin. Staff all Malaysian so services run with Swiss efficiency and a cheery smile.
Dutch roads good but horribly busy, as last time.
Stopped at Keukenhof springEn savoir plus
Straight roads
8 mai, Allemagne ⋅ ☀️ 16 °C
Hunker down, get some miles in. Long, straight, flat roads. Drove along the Afsluitdijk, a 20mile dyke, protecting a huge area from North Sea flooding. Into Deutschland.
Nice free pitch up byEn savoir plus
A boatie and manic laughter
9 mai, Allemagne ⋅ ☁️ 14 °C
More miles across Northern Germany. Avoided Hamburg by taking a ferry across the Elbe further downstream, crossing to Glückstadt ie.Happytown.
Pitched up in car park of Haubarge Inn, really old farmEn savoir plus
Pieter makes it to Denmark
10 mai, Danemark ⋅ ☀️ 11 °C
Lazy morning then on to campsite near Billund. Nice easy Sunday driving with almost no freight on main roads
Big bairn
11 mai, Danemark ⋅ ☁️ 12 °C
What can I say? It was on the bucket list....
To top of Denmark & beyond
13 mai, Norvège ⋅ ☁️ 8 °C
Hours of driving north to Hirshals, visit huge aquarium there and on to the late ferry to Kristiansand, Norway. Midnight arrival...
Norway!
13 mai, Norvège ⋅ ☁️ 9 °C
Or is it Scotland? First rain in a thousand miles. Still, gives van a clean
Asker
14 mai, Norvège ⋅ 🌧 5 °C
Nice to stop driving for a few days. Pitched up next to Al and Siri's in Asker, see what had changed in 25 odd years. Relaxing, good chat
A day in Oslo
16 mai, Norvège ⋅ ☁️ 9 °C
Great day looking round Opera House and new library then long lunch out
Norway National Day!
17 mai, Norvège ⋅ ⛅ 7 °C
Big day in Norway! Flags out at 7am, in at 9pm. Lots of traditional costumes and festivities. A classic car raleigh, trip out on bikes to lake, shared meal with neighbours
And then there were 4
18 mai, Norvège ⋅ ☁️ 7 °C
Heading off on our road trip. Started with Al and Sam, then joined by Al's Norwegian friend, Are, in his motorhome. It's a lot of fun!
Great pitch up on zigzag going up a mountain. Crew joined forEn savoir plus
Beaver country
19 mai, Norvège ⋅ 🌙 4 °C
Pitch up by river. Found beaver lodge and lots cut down trees
Finally reached a fjord
20 mai, Norvège ⋅ ☁️ 8 °C
Stegastein & Flåm
21 mai, Norvège ⋅ 🌧 5 °C
Stegastein viewpoint, lunch and beer in Flåm, trip on Flåm railway
Longest road tunnel in the world
22 mai, Norvège ⋅ 🌧 9 °C
Drove through Laerdal tunnel, 15 miles of it. Visit glacier museum. On to Oldevatn campsite where Al and Sam have rented hut and I am parked up alongside.
Atmospheric at moment with rain andEn savoir plus
Rainy day chillin and a glacier
23 mai, Norvège ⋅ ☁️ 8 °C
Lovely, cosy cabin to spend a rainy day with a wee bit oot n aboot to check out a glacier
Mountain pass, Geiranger, waterfalls
24 mai, Norvège ⋅ 🌧 6 °C
Parted company with Al and Sam. They were heading south to get Sam's plane. Won't be the same without them. Geiranger fjord was spectacular from a distance but the village itself seething withEn savoir plus
Trollstigen 1
25 mai, Norvège ⋅ 🌧 5 °C
Soooo much fun to drive! There at 7am to be there when quiet. Propped up my phone on a scrunched up t-shirt on dash to video all 9mins 27secs of it. Find Penguins only allows 5mins per footprint, so 2En savoir plus
Trollstigen 2
25 mai, Norvège ⋅ 🌧 5 °C
2 nights by River Lora
26 mai, Norvège ⋅ ⛅ 4 °C
Started heading west to Ålesund but weather and forecast so bad that headed east instead. Chilled pitch up by river Lora, up dirt track, between forest and river. Lovely walk to old mill throughEn savoir plus
Moose poo and reindeer moss
27 mai, Norvège ⋅ 🌬 6 °C
Oh the excitement of finding moose poo right next to the van.
The reindeer moss (cladonia stellaris, more a lichen than moss, that they eat) carpets whole mountain sides giving them a strange lightEn savoir plus
Lillehammer
28 mai, Norvège ⋅ ☁️ 16 °C
Gran
29–31 mai, Norvège ⋅ ☁️ 17 °C
No not your grandmother...Couple of nights at Al and Siri's family get-away an hour or so north of Oslo. We stayed there in the winter about 26years ago. Great to be back
Bit of Oslo culture
1–3 juin, Norvège ⋅ 🌧 15 °C
Car park pitch up near sea in Bygdøy, Oslo. Hard to believe busy roads just stone's throw away. Great for cycling base and evening walks by sea.
Vigeland park sculptures - most diverting.
FramEn savoir plus
Houseboats & gnarly trees
3 juin, Norvège ⋅ ☁️ 21 °C
Pitch up near Slevik in gravel car park for Mærrapanna nature reserve. Quiet, sheltered, lots interesting flora and fauna, boaties, sea, islands.
VoyageurYup, me too. But precautions were taken