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,…
Two drops of water are dancing in front of my eyes, from left to right and back, linked to the rhythm of my legs going up and down. I have tried to shake them off so many times today but they keep coming back. They are teasing me, hanging from the upper edge of my rain jacket’s hood, growing and growing and eventually growing too big and dropping down. But only a second later the…
Back in Oslo Simon and I had cycled up the new opera house. On the roof we met another Simon, a Suisse guy who was studying for one semester in Trondheim and who was visiting Oslo for the national day weekend. We got to talk a bit about cycle touring and he invited us to stay in his student flat in Trondheim once we’d get there. And that’s exactly where I stayed for my 6…
Sometimes a little rant/bad poetry on my own blog does the trick: Last Thursday we had the first day in exactly 4 weeks without rain! That’s enough reason to celebrate. So far the good weather has stayed with us and we arrived in Tromsø with 16° C. North cape here we come… If you thought that central Norway was beautiful, go and check out the Helgelandskysten, the Lofoten and Senya. I definitely want to come…
