According to a report of the worldbank from 2014, Norway and Switzerland are the two most expensive economies in the world. That doesn’t make Norway the ideal travel country, does it? Food prices are high, alcohol and cigarettes heavily surtaxed, petrol prices are the highest in Europe and there’s an extensive toll system in place on the major roads of southern and central Norway. Of course the latter doesn’t apply to cyclists. Neither did we…
I’m finally on the train back to Germany and I’m looking back on the last days after we left the cape. There was a distinct lack of motivation and also Simon didn’t feel very well and so we advanced slowly. In the morning of the fourth day Simon and I split up again, this time for good. He was going to take the plane from Luleå and me the train from Kiruna and so we…
(sorry, once more in German) Irgendwo auf der E6 trafen wir heute einen Motorradfahrer, der auf den Boden starrte und sich langsam von seiner stattlichen BMW entfernte. “Is everything alright?”, fragte ihn Simon. “Och, ick such hier sone Schraube”, kam gleich auf deutsch zurück. Seit er vom letzten Rastplatz losgefahren sei, hätte sich von seinem Pedal für das Schalten der Gänge eine wichtige Imbusschraube gelöst und nun stecke er im 5. Gang fest. Da der…
On June 28th we reached the North Cape at about 3pm. Do I hear a little fanfare? And guess what, it was … drum roll … raining! Everything else would have been strange anyway, so I try not to complain anymore. We had done the stretch from Alta to the North Cape (242km) in only two days, which we had not planned, but after a full day rest in Alta with huge amounts of food,…
