After spending some time hiking the cloudy mountains we changed tacks and did a bit of relaxing sighting around the Isle of Arran. We started in the south of the island at Kildonan where the houses all looked a bit nondescript but there was one fabulous building, it was a former free church built in…
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Our winter season in the Norwegian Arctic
After almost four months working in Norway it’s time for us to head off and get back to travelling. We‘re heading to Vancouver Canada, to buy a new van so we can do our third roadtrip across North America. We haven’t lived in a van since our Alaska to Florida trip in 2016 so we…
Winter in the Arctic | Waiting for the sun to rise and the aurora to dance
It took a bit of effort to reach Vesterålen in Northern Norway where we were returning for the winter season. We left my mums house at 8am and landed in Oslo just as the final rays of sun dipped behind the horizon. It was the last time we’d see the sun for a whole month…
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…
The Northern Lights | Better in photos or in person?
The northern lights are the main reason we came to Norway in winter. It’s something we’ve wanted to see for years and we have four months to see them while volunteering here so our chances are very high! It was on our 6th night that we finally saw them. My aurora app said there was…
NON STOP TRAVELLING 