After a hearty breakfast, we braved the elements (wet, driving snow and a biting cold wind) and set off to find a shopping mall. Armed with a Murmansk city map, all in cyrillic script, of course, it didn’t take long. Emblazoned across the entrance was an ad for, of all…
I wouldn’t be making an overstatement if I said we are delighted to be here. What an interesting day! Jen had been reading that you could buy vehicle insurance for Russia, at the border. Well, on arriving at the Norwegian border, Jen asked if this was possible, to be told,…
The camp owner turned up this morning. On asking him if he was opening the camp, he said not until next week. We asked if he minded us staying another night. He wasn’t looking very happy, so we expected a negative response. However, he said we could stay, but he…
A cold, wet, miserable morning but a beautiful warm shower. It may be a very basic camp, but these places are better than the pristine, modern ones where you usually get a token which provides you with just a few minutes of hot water. Unlimited hot water, over which you…
It’s the morning of day 14 and still in the camp site having breakfast at 10.30am. It’s cold, and wet too but I need to go back to Tromso, yesterday After Land Rover agents, Biltrend spent most of the day looking for the issue that has been plaguing us, they…
It’s b…. cold now and wet! Well, what do you expect when you are at Lat. 70deg North! We didn’t come for the sun but we have been very lucky until about 2am this morning, camped just south of Narvik, when both the wind and rain hit us. Then the…
On the E6 all day. Slow progress for an hour or so this morning due to small villages and low speed limits. Then an open road up until lunch time allowing us to make quite good progress. Not fast, as the maximum speed limit is 90kph, but there was scant…
Another cracking day dawned. On the road by 10ish. Yesterday we programmed an alternative road into the Sat Nav to the E6, which it seems is the longest road in one country in Europe. Anyway, the alternative proved to be a brilliant choice. A Long climb up onto a plateau with spectacular…
Well, the old girl is running more smoothly (I’m referring to the Land Rover), but we still have the starting gremlin. Dennis has been in touch with William, who helped yesterday and he has talked to a friendly mechanic in Trondheim. So, that’s where we will head tomorrow. I’m…
Jen says, :- Up early, on another beautiful morning, for the four and a half hour crossing to Langesund in Norway. A well appointed ferry and a very smooth crossing. Having programmed the sat. nav. for Kongsberg, we set off. Why Kongsberg, yet another Land Rover specialist we have been…