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 »
Category: Cycling
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 »
A Few Days near Luxembourg City
20/04/2025 After leaving Besançon we had another city in our sights for our journey home. Luxembourg City was to be another foray into Luxembourg for something other than cheap fuel…. Read more »
Exploring Beaches from Kinlochbervie
28/11/25 After Durness, we drove around more of the NC500 road. heading south and away from the north coast. On our right was the wild and desolate landscape of the… Read more »
Sango Sands and Smoo Cave
27/11/2024 It was time for me to do some more work so we planned the next stop to be on a campsite. Sango Sands Oasis Sango Sands Oasis campsite is… Read more »
Bettyhill and the Highland Clearances
23/11/2024 After visiting Dounreay we drove westwards along the A836. The views were becoming more desolate, this is the edge of the Flow Country. We really want to drive inland… Read more »
Orkney Part 4 – Sanday
15/11/2024 Is it wrong to book a destination based on Pizza? It’s not that pizza was the reason we wanted to go to Sanday. But once we’d decided we were… Read more »
Orkney Part 2 – Westray
11/11/2024 While we were at Pool Farmhouse we planned out our visits to other islands. We were hoping to get to Westray, Sanday and Hoy on this trip, with possible… Read more »
Orkney Part 1 – South Ronaldsay and East Mainland
06/11/2024 We set off for Orkney on the 2nd November from Gill’s Bay. It was a lovely day for our crossing, a hopeful sign of the weather to come. We… Read more »
Making Plans and Heading North
30/10/2024 We had been watching the weather forecast for a little while. Being British we are obsessed with the weather anyway, but this was a level above the usual, with… Read more »
Bike Trails and Seaboard Villages
28/10/2024 Following our walk up Ben Wyvis we drove back east towards the coast, through popular Fortrose and Rosemarkie where Chanonry Point offers good opportunities for dolphin spotting. We didn’t… Read more »
Randolph’s Leap
24/10/24 River Findhorn Somewhere I had read that the Findhorn River was one of the most underrated and beautiful rivers in Scotland. I don’t know how true that is. Certainly… Read more »
Shingle banks of the Spey
17/10/24 Yet again it was time for work. These couple of days a week come so quickly. I cant believe that I actually managed to do a ‘normal’ working week…. Read more »
Biking the Moray Monster Trails
14/10/2024 After a lot of walking it was time to indulge Paul with some Mountain Biking. Winding Walks is a Scottish Forestry location which hosts the ‘Moray Monster’ trails and… Read more »
The Angus Glens
03/10/24 What we had seen of Angus so far had been fields of stubble and straw bales. Earthy potato fields were in the last stages of harvest and fruit farms… Read more »
Stones and Stuff in Forfar
01/10/2024 One of the things I have decided about working from the van is that I want to be on hook up and stationary on the days I’m working. The… Read more »