We had a very long sleepless night travelling from London to Almaty, Kazakhstan, for the start of our Central Asian adventures. Craig seemed to start the trip in a particularly clumsy manner though. The first incident was when we were queuing up along the aisle of the plane, waiting for everyone to put their bags…
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Scuba diving in the Arctic and an amusing hitchhiking trip
We never thought about scuba diving in the arctic sea, but an opportunity came up in our final week which we couldn’t turn down. We were heading out with the lovely team from Lofoten Diving who are based in the fishing village of Ballstad, not far from Leknes. We managed to get a ride with…
Kayaking under the midnight sun in the Norwegian Arctic
While we’re in the Lofoten Islands we’re helping our hosts set up their kayak business. Craig’s been doing lots of carpentry work while I’ve been painting and chipping in with logo ideas. Before things kick off with the busy summer season though, we’ve been taken out on a few kayak trips. On our first trip,…
Our favourite hike in the Lofoten Islands
It was a perfect day for an 8 hour hike in the mountains – the sky was blue, the birds were tweeting and a gentle breeze rustled through the trees. We were going to hike up Veinestinden, and with an elevation of 730m it made it the highest mountain we’ve climbed in the Lofoten Islands….
Returning to the most beautiful place in the world | Lofoten, Norway
I once read that the Lofoten Islands are like the Alps but with their feet in the sea and I thought it was such a perfect description for this magical area. It’s one of the few places in the world where the mountains rise straight out of the water and shoot 500+ meters towards the…
Highlights from our two months volunteering in Vesterålen | Norway
From day one In Vesterålen it’s been go go go. I was expecting lots of free time while volunteering here but we’ve been kept busy in a very good way, doing plenty of outdoor activities and also hanging out with the other volunteers so I’ve become very far behind on my blog posts! It’s now…
Searching for the most beautiful landscapes in Vesterålen | Northern Norway
We’ve been lucky to explore lots of Vesterålen while volunteering here and our hosts have taken us out on some beautiful road trips. One of which we started at 5:30am to catch the sunrise. It was a bloody cold morning, the coldest we’ve ever experienced in fact at a frigid -19 degrees! The sky started…
Exploring Vesterålen’s beautiful coastline | Norway
The coastline around Vesterålen is home to some incredible white sand beaches with turquoise water gently lapping the shores. To access them though, we needed a car so one day we borrowed our hosts and went for a little roadtrip around Bø. We received a fair amount of snow earlier in the week and the…
A rough canoe trip to the frozen Hellfjord | Northern Norway
It was our first full day at Guvåg’s wilderness cabin and after a night of heavy snowfall we woke to a calm morning and decided to take our chances and go for a canoe trip. As soon as we sat in the canoe and began shuffling down the ramp into the sea, the wind picked…
Snow storms and wild aurora shows at a wilderness cabin in Norway
We parked at the end of a snow covered road, slung our rucksacks on our backs, grabbed plastic sacks filled with duvets and set off on an extremely snowy trail. We had a 700m walk through deep snow to the Guvåghytta, a remote wilderness cabin in Vesterålen. Our hosts were holidaying abroad so without any…
NON STOP TRAVELLING 