Nordic Countries
Vega – The Eiderdown Centre
I wasn’t expecting to have much to say about the last few days. I looked at the weather forecast and rain radar before we left Rorvik and found that virtually all of central and southern Norway was covered in rain. The rain depression is also moving north so that meant that we would have rain […]
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Travelling North to Rorvik
I was surprised at the amount of traffic on the road on which we travelled north from Trondheim today. Now that I have Googled it, I am not at all surprised. (You can find out almost anything on Googhle). It turns out that Route E6, on which we were driving, is the main north-south road […]
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Travelling on to Trondheim
For the last two days we have been ambling north from the fishing village on the Atlantic Coast Road to Trondheim. The speed limit in Norway (on ordinary roads) is 80 kmh and down to 50 kmh through the towns. A lot of narrow rural roads have a speed limit of 60kmh. Our driving has […]
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A Rest Day at Halholmen
Today, we had a break from driving with a rest day at Halholmen. We slept in, did nothing all morning and then continued doing not much in the afternoon. This little island in the Hustadvika Bay has been a former fishing community since the beginning of the 1700s. In 1898, the current owner’s grandfather, Bård […]
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Mountain Roads and Rugged Coastlines
Our trip on Saturday was filled with outstanding scenery and interesting discoveries. It began as we drove along the Troll Road (Trollistigen) and finished with our overnight stop on the Atlantic Coast. We approached the Troll Road across a rugged mountain pass. It had been raining all morning but our luck was in and it […]
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Driving to Geiranger Fjord
Well, we had plenty of ‘wow’ in today’s scenery. It was raining off and on until lunch time but by the afternoons it cleared and we had a mild, although cloudy, day. The temperature was around 18C. We left the little white hotel by the fjord in which we stayed last night, at around 9.00 […]
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Tunnels and Rain
This is our first real driving day in Norway. We picked up our rental car from the Europcar depot in Bergen this morning and the weather didn’t look good. It was raining constantly and it continued until late afternoon. Out itinerary was that we would head into Norway’s fjord country today and we were looking […]
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Transferring to Norway
Yesterday, we had a long day of constant travel to Oslo and today we had a leisurely, although early, train to Bergen on the west coast of Norway. We checked in for our flight in Reykjavi yesterday morning after driving from our nearby hotel and refuelling our rental car before returning it. I had booked […]
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The End Of Our Trip to Iceland
It was a short three-hour drive back to Reykjavik today Breakfast at our little hotel at Stykkishólmu consisted of cheese, hard boiled egg and smoked salmon along with a bowl of scrambled egg. There was also some cereal and yoghurt and the coffee was thick and heavy. Shortly after we left, we saw some other cars […]
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The Snæfellsnes Peninsula – Western Iceland
This is our second last day in Iceland before we head back to somewhere near Reykjavik tomorrow and then on Wednesday we catch a couple of flights that will take us to Oslo in Norway for the second part of our trip. We had an easy start this morning. The main thing was that we […]
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Látrabjarg Bird Cliffs
We had a rest day today so we didn’t have any long driving distances to cover. We took our time getting started and then drove about 50 kms around to the headland on the other side of the fjord to where we have been staying in Patreksfjörður. On the headland are the Látrabjarg bird-cliffs – the […]
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Iceland’s West Fjords
Tonight we are staying in Patreksfjörður, the biggest town in the southern part of the Westfjords, with a population of around 660 people. The Westfjords region is a large peninsula that is located in the far NW corner of Iceland. It lies on the Denmark Strait, facing the east coast of Greenland and is connected […]
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