Route........
Sainsbury's home delivery loaded straight into the caravan. A first for the delivery driver!
Mad dash up the M3, M25 to Harwich.
Overnight ferry to Elsberg in Denmark. Nice flat crossing & good buffet. Very civilized way the travel.
Couple of days drive up through Denmark, popped into see the 'Tollund Man', a 4000 year old chap buried in a bog.
Overnight ferry up to Bergen, on Norways West coast. Nice & flat crossing.
Stayed 3 nights in Bergen, rough campsite right in the middle of the city but £20 a night was fair.
Up the west coast through Fjiodland, beautiful landscape but bloody expensive ferries & tunnels, around £25 a pop & somedays you can be doing 3 of them.
One night, slept up near the Josel-bren glacier. Around 9pm it starting snowing, by 11pm it was 2/3" on the road & suddenly thought 'we could be here for days'. Midnight dash down a snowy mountain road, through a blizzard, with a caravan, a 40 metre dead-drop to a frozen lake & your kids on the back-seat is not something I'd like to do every day!!
Spent a couple of Days in Trondhiem, on another dodgy site, burnt out cars & mysterious comings & goings throughout the day & night, free washer/dryer though, made good use of it, we'd never been so clean...ahhhhh!
From there a mad rush North on the E6. Main Norway highway but the further you go the worst it gets. Got the caravan airborne a couple of times on the sudden 1 foot drops in the road.....You just have to learn to look for the skid-marks on the road.
Arctic circle is on a high plateau & totally feels like another country to the rest of Norway. But man it was cold. Got caught be the sunset while out hunting sorry chasing reindeer. As soon as the sun went the wind picked up & the temperature dropped like a stone. Never been so cold & the little one started crying the last 200 metres back to our heated caravan. One night left the heater on all night & we still had ice on the inside.
Up over the border to Sweden for a days skiing, then South, forever south & to the sun, the sun & warmth. Over the next few days it was great to see the snow lose its grip, just had to remember to look at for stray Moose on the highway, Saw 5 in total, morning & evenings is when they are on the move.
Back over to Oslo for another couple of days. had alook at the famous 'eddy the eagle' ski-jump & a poke around the ship the 'Fran'. The ship the helped beat Captain Scot to the South Pole.
Another overnight ferry Oslo to Copenhagen. Quick look around the city & a walk to see 'The little mermaid' but the bloody Chinese had nicked her.
Mad dash on down to Hanover & the Syncro25 event. Afterwards popped in to see some friends before heading to Dunkirk & home.
Tired now!!
