'Guest blog'
A moose and a sauna
On the way south from Oulu there was a suprise awaiting me in the bushes beside the highway. It was big, brown and it nearly made me jump off my bike. Luckily they have put moose proof fencing that lines the side of the highway in forested areas in Finland or I would most probably […]
The beardy thing
On a scale of 1 to very beardy our beards are probably only about midway along the spectrum, especially as we are going to grow them for a long time longer. Even so, it seems the beard is a real rarity (or absurdity) on two 24 year old blokes (then again I have seen women […]
Arm wrestling in the back end of beyond; but I haven’t had my Weetabix!
The day after I saw John off towards Nordkapp (on Thursday 6th June), once I had said my thanks and goodbyes to the owners of Storuman campsite, who had very nicely let me pitch my tent for free, I was ready to leave towards Jokkmokk. But as I was riding through the town I could see […]
How to get the best out of your beer
On our journey we have had a number of memorable beers including the 2 huge bottles of pilsner we were most generously given in Geilo in Norway after riding through the freezing blizzards of the Hardanger plateau. The key factor in our enjoyment of this beer was that it was earned. Since then we have […]
plateau 6
Leaving Lililhammer, we realised that this ski resort town was surprisingly less welcoming of 2 rag tag cyclists than the more open country areas we had previously experienced. All across Norway our waves and hellos to passers-by had been reciprocated with as much good will. In Lillihammer however, our ‘good middags’, ‘hejs’, waves and cheeky […]
The Hill/Bishop relationship: love on the rocks.
Before we set off to Norway I liked eating the odd steep hill with my bike tyres, chewing them up as I pedalled, spitting out tarmac behind me. Norway has made me revise my taste for, or relationship with, hills. They are especially testing when they keep appearing in front of you when you’re least […]
Bergen I do believe
After all this talk of mishaps, foul-ups and blunders, you, our ever faithful audience must think we are either extremely unlucky or very incompetent. I like to think that all this stuff could have happened to anybody on such a rag-tag adventure like this. Besides, if everything went to plan our blogs would be even […]