Ferry and Tulips
5月7日, オランダ ⋅ ☀️ 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 springもっと詳しく
Straight roads
5月8日, ドイツ ⋅ ☀️ 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 byもっと詳しく
A boatie and manic laughter
5月9日, ドイツ ⋅ ☁️ 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 farmもっと詳しく
Pieter makes it to Denmark
5月10日, デンマーク ⋅ ☀️ 11 °C
Lazy morning then on to campsite near Billund. Nice easy Sunday driving with almost no freight on main roads
Big bairn
5月11日, デンマーク ⋅ ☁️ 12 °C
What can I say? It was on the bucket list....
To top of Denmark & beyond
5月13日, ノルウェー ⋅ ☁️ 8 °C
Hours of driving north to Hirshals, visit huge aquarium there and on to the late ferry to Kristiansand, Norway. Midnight arrival...
Norway!
5月13日, ノルウェー ⋅ ☁️ 9 °C
Or is it Scotland? First rain in a thousand miles. Still, gives van a clean
Asker
5月14日, ノルウェー ⋅ 🌧 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
5月16日, ノルウェー ⋅ ☁️ 9 °C
Great day looking round Opera House and new library then long lunch out
Norway National Day!
5月17日, ノルウェー ⋅ ⛅ 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
5月18日, ノルウェー ⋅ ☁️ 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 forもっと詳しく
Beaver country
5月19日, ノルウェー ⋅ 🌙 4 °C
Pitch up by river. Found beaver lodge and lots cut down trees
Finally reached a fjord
5月20日, ノルウェー ⋅ ☁️ 8 °C
Stegastein & Flåm
5月21日, ノルウェー ⋅ 🌧 5 °C
Stegastein viewpoint, lunch and beer in Flåm, trip on Flåm railway
Longest road tunnel in the world
5月22日, ノルウェー ⋅ 🌧 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 andもっと詳しく
Rainy day chillin and a glacier
5月23日, ノルウェー ⋅ ☁️ 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
5月24日, ノルウェー ⋅ 🌧 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 withもっと詳しく
Trollstigen 1
5月25日, ノルウェー ⋅ 🌧 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 2もっと詳しく
Trollstigen 2
5月25日, ノルウェー ⋅ 🌧 5 °C
2 nights by River Lora
5月26日, ノルウェー ⋅ ⛅ 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 throughもっと詳しく
Moose poo and reindeer moss
5月27日, ノルウェー ⋅ 🌬 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 lightもっと詳しく
Lillehammer
5月28日, ノルウェー ⋅ ☁️ 16 °C
Gran
5月29日〜31日, ノルウェー ⋅ ☁️ 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
6月1日〜3日, ノルウェー ⋅ 🌧 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.
Framもっと詳しく
Houseboats & gnarly trees
6月3日, ノルウェー ⋅ ☁️ 21 °C
Pitch up near Slevik in gravel car park for Mærrapanna nature reserve. Quiet, sheltered, lots interesting flora and fauna, boaties, sea, islands.
旅行者Yup, me too. But precautions were taken