Hello hello from Trondheim, the capital of "Middle Norway!" I had another misadventure... my flight from Amsterdam to Oslo, Norway was delayed by about an hour, so I missed my connecting flight from Oslo to Trondheim, and (after sprinting through the airport) only barely made it to the check-in gate for the last flight of the night. Luckily, they got me on the flight, but they didn't get my bag on it. But I had all my toiletries and medicines, thank goodness. I caught a taxi (for 750 Norwegian Kroner, which I still don't know how to convert to dollars) to [View Full Entry]

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Thought I should try to fill in some gaps while Nigel was getting packed. Turns out the bus tour we booked has spent most of its marketing money in OZ. Of the 27 people onboard one was Malaisian, one was Canadian and then there was us. Really we couldn't have got a better bunch to travel with. It wasn't really a party bus like we had heard about other tours, only one person was a real alcoholic and despite them serving beer on the bus the only night they got really messy she was fine (experiance is a great thing). So [View Full Entry]

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Onto Geiranger, and I had no idea from my map that I'd be making another snowbound climb up to just over 1000m (from about 500m this time). The previous night I had a lovely campsite next to Pollfoss, a huge gushing section of rapids, in a nice fir tree forest (my last midge-free night! but more on that later...) The road up and over to Geiranger was really spectacular with an amazing first view straight down 1000m to the fjord below chockablock with cruise ships. A had a bit of a rest in the town (touristy as hell, but nonetheless a [View Full Entry]

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I pushed on from Trollstigen via Andalsnes. There I got my wheel fixed (170 kroner) and had the good (or bad) luck to notice a slow puncture at the shop. We found the culprit, a little thorn stuck in the tyre. Lucky I guess that we had the wheel apart anyway - but now I've lost my no puncture record. I think I made about 2000 miles puncture-free though - must be some kind of record! That night I pushed on (i had some vague hope about making Trondheim the next day, but gauging distances is hard). Despite coming out of [View Full Entry]

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I've arrived safe, but road-weary in Trondheim. I'm going to have a rest day here tomorrow (so I can watch the football final!!!) and then we'll see. I'm thinking about taking a train just a bit to catch up on a couple of lost days. In that way I can enjoy the end more rather than having to race to get there. I should say I have now got a flight booked back home,, from Stockholm to Edinburgh! May sound crazy - but there is method to my madness... you'll see in a bit! Anyway I'm about to get kicked out [View Full Entry]

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Jotunheimen is the national park that contains all of Norway's high mountains over 2400m and highway 5 runs right by to 1434m over 20km from sea level, an obvious attraction for me on my panniered up bike. I was lucky. I started the climb late in the day (queue 3rd spoke breakage!!), so there was no way I was going to make the top. It wouldn't have been practical to camp up there in any case. After chatting with a friendly guy at the tourist info at the base town, I decided to try for Turtagrø 1000m up the pass. The [View Full Entry]

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We have been out of this World No, that is not true. But when you read about the place dad took us to this summer you might think so. Well, let's tell the story from the start. In the end of this summer dad told us he would bring us to Hell. We thought he was joking of course. There are limits on where you can travel and since Hell is not in this World that is definitely a place you can't go to. We have known that for a long time. Hey, we may only be cuddly toys but we [View Full Entry]

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Two days visiting Trondheim Norway is a very nice country with wonderful people and astonishing nature. I like Norway a lot but for various reasons I don't visit our western neighbours very often. But now in August I had both the time and the opportunity to visit Trondheim for a few days so I decided to give it a "go". Trondheim is a city with old traditions. For more than 1000 years there's been a sizeable settlement at the estuary of the Nidelva River in the Trondheimsfjord on the west coast of Norway. A long time ago Trondheim was the capital [View Full Entry]

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A hot day in Hell If you have ever been in doubt I can now assure you that Hell exists. I know, I have been there! I can also inform you that it's hot in Hell. So now you know that too. Let's stop pretending why I wanted to go to Trondheim in the first place. OK, Trondheim is a nice town and well worth visiting. But the place I wanted to see most of all was a small village 30 kilometres away. A village named Hell. Because the name sounds so odd in English the village draws quite a few [View Full Entry]

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In this episode Rusty "borrows" internet and uploads pictures for Kenneth. Rusty, the official blogtographer of the Kenneth & Rusty travel blog, has been working his index finger to the bone getting images for Kenneth to be pithy about. Here are some of his latest favorites. [View Full Entry]

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