A Long Weekend in Pila
07/09/2026 After being battered by the bike trails in Cervinia we were off to Pila where we hoped that the trails would be kinder. The blue trails on the map… Read more »
Category: Cycling
Summer Activities in Valtournenche
03/09/2026 From our spot on the Piccolo San Bernardo pass we drove down the many hairpins, through La Thuile and down to the base of the Aosta Valley. We were… Read more »
A Shopping Trip and a Mountain Pass
29/08/2026 After two bike parks we had a decision to make. Should we invest in some downhill mountain biking gear? Most of the people we’d seen on downhill trails had… Read more »
Summer in La Plagne
28/08/2026 We left Les Saisies in the afternoon, making sure we were out before we ticked over into another 24 hour period. Stupidly I’d forgotten to top up the CCP… Read more »
Starting Our Mountain Biking Adventure in Les Saisies
25/08/2026 Les Saisies. Yes, we’ve been here before. In fact this will be our fifth visit. Maybe that makes us boring, but we’re likely to be back again so we… Read more »
Off to the Alps – Our Plans for Late Summer 2026
What’s the plan for this trip? Our plan while we are homeless is to head to the Alps. It’s not a particularly novel plan from us, we love the mountains,… Read more »
Heatwaves in June 2026
June. The start of the summer heatwaves of 2026. I hope this is an aberration as we are really not capable of enduring summers like this on a regular basis…. Read more »
Spring in the UK – May 2026
A field near Crackington Haven At the beginning of May our peaceful farmer’s field was invaded by the people who were turning up for the Land Rover event. It was… Read more »
A Couple of Days in Denmark
29/10/2025 The ferry docked at about 10pm in Hirtshals. Late night arrivals aren’t our favourite. Another reason for not booking evening ferries in future. Tårs stopover I needed to work… Read more »
Whirlpools and Bike Rides at Bodø
17/10/2025 After our late evening crossing we arrived in Bodø which we had amusingly been pronouncing so badly that we didn’t understand the announcement of our impending arrival. We’ve had… Read more »
Mountain Biking in Leknes
11/10/2025 After our wild windy walk at Unstad we moved on to Leknes. This is Lofoten’s other large town (we’d already visted Svolvær a few days before) and unusually is… Read more »
A Ship in a Bottle – The Hurtigruten Museum
04/10/2025 Hurtigruten is a word you cant escape when you are visiting the Norwegian coast. The word literally means ‘The Fast Route’, but it’s one of those situations where the… Read more »
A Day at Harstad Bike Park
26/09/2025 From Senja to Harstad After leaving Senja we drove south, following route 84 through the hills where a sprinkle of snow still lined the edge of the road and… Read more »
Taking Stock in Olderdalen
17/09/2025 Olderdalen is a village on the edge of the Lyngenfjord. From Olderdalen a ferry crosses the fjord to the Lyngen peninsular with it’s majestic glacier clad mountains. We drove… Read more »
Around Kvænangen fjord
13/09/2025 It felt very strange to be heading south now after such an intensive amount of effort to get north. From our glacier stopover we tracked back to the E6… Read more »
Rock Art and Mountain Biking in Alta
11/09/2025 And so we found ourselves back in Alta, just 10 days after passing through on our blast across Finland. This time we were due to stay over. We had… Read more »
Crossing the 71st Parallel
06/09/2025 The north coast of Norway is made up of a number of peninsulas jutting into the Barents sea. We had been on the Varanger peninsular and were about to… Read more »
Witches and Work in Vardø
03/09/2025 After leaving Grense Jacobselv we needed to find somewhere with signal for me to work. It also needed to be somewhere that Paul could entertain himself for the day… Read more »
Fjord Scenery on the way to Narvik
28/08/2025 The drive north from our campsite in Rognan was spectacular. This was the point when we really got hit in the eyes with the fjord scenery that Norway is… Read more »
Mountain Bikes at Hafjell
16/08/2025 Refreshed by the outdoors, we were ready for another longish drive. It was going to be over 500km up past Oslo and the famous Olympic town of Lillehammer to… Read more »