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277km 🚗

A day of ups and downs 🤨

Started and ended well, but some emotional moments in the middle 🫣

Enjoyed my morning coffee with two cyclists who both happen to be from Innsbruck. Their stories of cycling 100 kilometers a day in all weathers and all the clever lightweight kit they carry: mindboggling 🚲 ... 🚲

Having looked more closely at the next stage of this trip I realised I have 800km to cover in 5 days 🧐

This will allow me to get to the Norwegian town of Porsgrunn in the Tellemark region by Friday. Where I have kindly been invited to stay with the aunt of a friend of a friend. She used to work at the famous porcelain factory that is in the town 🍽️🥣

All of which means I need to pick up the rate of travel once again, so my beautiful dillydallying beside the coast has come to an end 😟

Hence the emotional moment as I left the F17 coastal road, at Steinkjer (I've being pronouncing it as 'stinkier'....) Which has been on the signposts for 400km?!🛣️

So somewhat reluctantly I rejoined the E6, the main N/S road. The same one that I took to Bodø, so I knew I'd recognise it but imagine my surprise, moments later, to find the same Toyota dealership I last saw on 6th July when I stopped by mistake - Harris the Yaris at home will not be forgotten! 🐞

Considering this was a very wet day of driving there seem to be still plenty of pictures and quite a lot to say on the subject hmm 🗣️🗣️🗣️

Stopping at a supermarket in a different country often provides examples of the local culture. I particularly liked the 'People's Adventures - the Musical', and the dog grooming posters 🎼 🐾

Buying fruit yogurt or as turned out to be fruit rice pudding (😨) was another surprising moment today - it was delicious and nothing like school dinners!

This is turning out to be a very long Footprint, suffice to say the rain was so heavy and my mood slightly lower so I filled up Danske and enjoyed my plated chicken kebab with salad and fries 🌧️🌧️🌧️

Before heading back up the road to a campsite - nobody being sociable here as it is mostly very static caravans but Reno the manager did tell me all about his long COVID experience and how the previous owner of the campsite ran it for 58 years 😳

I'm looking forward to some different roads as I head to Glitterheim on Tuesday 🪩Read more