It’s time to make our way further north in Norway and while it’s only 250km as the crow flies the journey is actually almost 500km when you drive the route. But, we don’t have a car so that means relying on public transport, taking 2 ferries, 3 buses and a night in a hotel. Our…
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Colourful aurora and mountain hikes in the Arctic | Norway
The theme of autumn in the arctic so far has been rain and more rain. Thankfully a drop in temperature meant we had our first snowfall of the season and suddenly it turned into a winter wonderland. It wasn’t just on the mountains, we had a good few inches of snow on the ground too…
A boat ride with a flock of sheep in the Norwegian Arctic
Life in the Norwegian arctic is always a bit unpredictable but today really proved that when our friend asked if we wanted to go for a boat trip to an island….to collect some of his sheep!! So apparently he puts them there for summer grazing but now the grass has lost most of its nutrients…
Autumn in the Norwegian Arctic
It’s never a quick journey to reach northern Norway and this time our day started at 4:15am with a 2km walk to the bus stop – remarkably under a sky filled with dancing aurora which is very rare in the south of Norway. The bus took 3 hours to reach Oslo where we hopped on…
Autumn in southern Norway | Cozy cabins and living with malamutes
It’s our 5th visit to Norway as we just can’t get enough of this country. We were feeling pretty burnt out on our backpacking trip around the world, it’s exhausting planning every day, taking uncomfortable public transport, getting food poisoning and surviving the stifling heat. So we made the decision to go somewhere cold that…
Autumn hikes in the Lake District
It’s September and officially Autumn which is a season I absolutely adore so we headed out on a nice long day-hike starting in Great Langdale and up to the picture-perfect Blea Tarn before dropping down into the Little Langdale valley. The views of the rocky Langdale pikes were incredible as we looked back up from…
Our best camping trip | Wild swims, crazy sunsets and cloud inversions
A bizarre heat-wave hit us at the start of September and we couldn’t resist a 2 night 3 day camping trip in the hills. We headed north on a bus through the Lake District where we began an extremely steep hike, gaining about 500m elevation in less than a kilometre. We’d camped in the same…
Day hikes, sunsets and wildlife in the Lake District
While we had big plans of camping throughout the summer the weather had other ideas with June through August being a soggy mess so instead we opted for day hikes during the dry spells. We managed to do a pretty good job of hiking in the good weather-windows and exploring a few new routes. On…
Two extremely different camping trips | Thunderstorms and crazy sunsets
Summer in the Lake District has looked a little different to what we were expecting, call us ignorant but 3 months of rain and wind was a bit of a shock. Our camping trips came to a grinding halt because it’s just miserable in bad weather, saying that we did a spontaneous trip for my…
Camping above the clouds in the Lake District
Just as we began walking through the forest two owls swooped above our heads. It happened so quickly but Craig managed to see where one of them flew and we were able to have a look at the wee thing that resembled a 90’s fur-baby. Craig googled the breed of owl when we got home…
NON STOP TRAVELLING 