A slideshow of the best photos of our 2000km ride through Norway
17/08/2013
14/08/2013
Norway by bike
In the summer of 2013 we decided to cycle through Norway as far North as we could. We ended up doing about 2000km although we also had our 6 month old son Leo with us sat in a Tout Terrain trailer on the back of my bike:
We'd been living in Norway 3 years and thought that it would be a good chance to see the place. Leo was at a good age and we thought it would be a good opportunity to try out a few things without too much stress. There's always a campsite or a cabin not far away in Norway and it would teach us how to deal with quite a wide range of challenging terrain and weather.
It was really hard to find out good information about doing something like this with a baby so we thought we'd find out for ourselves. Apart from the extra weight of the trailer it was actually quite easy. Our only difficult challenge was the light at night which we solved with a tent inside a tent just for Leo. We also made lots of use of Warm Showers.
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07/05/2013
Frafjord Expedition
Only a couple of weeks later we got the chance to go even further up into the mountains and managed a great overnight trip to Frafjord, coming back over the high road rather than through the tunnel. It was serious fun and Leo seemed to love it.
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24/04/2013
Øvre Espedal microadventure
We had a chance to cycle a little bit higher into the mountains to Øvre Espedal and try camping with Leo as a practice for our summer holiday and to sort out our equipment. We cycled about 70km (via a ferry) to a lovely camping spot with our friend Steve. Even though it was cold Leo loved it. Life was looking up!
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15/02/2013
Tout Terrain Trailer
When Leo was about 9 weeks old our Tout Terrain single-trailer finally arrived:
The trailer has suspension and we have a sort of idea that we might be able to do something adventurous with it when he gets a bit older. It's not as wide as a fully loaded bike with panniers and runs really smoothly because its one wheel follows the bike wheel. Normal two wheel trailers can be quite bumpy because there are three wheels to catch the bumps including your own.
Leo's first reaction wasn't the best:
Leo's first reaction wasn't the best:
But before long he was fine in it for about an hour and we got lots of trips to the beach:
05/10/2012
Entering a city with a GPS
We weren't exactly looking forward to entering Krakow on a bike, but we just hadn't realised how amazing Open Streetmaps is.
The turn by turn navigation took us down small side streets and through parks in the most unbelievable way. The only stress was how mad the route was....
05/09/2012
04/09/2012
Book - Eastern Europe by Bike
You can see the whole of the book about our journey through Eastern Europe here for free:
31/08/2012
29/08/2012
Eastern Europe by bike
In the summer of 2012 we flew from Stavanger in Norway to Split in Croatia and cycled back:
The journey was one of 4200km and took 54 days during our summer holiday. Isabelle was 5 months pregnant at the beginning and was showing her lump towards the end.
We travelled through 15 countries:
Croatia, Bosnia Herzegovina, Montenegro, Albania, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Romania, Ukraine, Slovakia, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Sweden and finally Norway.
Some of the journey through Poland was on a train and we got a ferry from Tallinn to Stockholm to get back to Scandinavia. The ride across the centre of Norway was a challenge although the hardest and most spectacular bit was the Romanian 'Alps'
11/07/2012
10/07/2012
15/05/2012
15/03/2012
Son Dynamo hub
We have started using a GPS in Norway to explore on our road bikes and found it really useful. The idea of doing a long cycle ride with a GPS appeals so when I discovered that I needed a new front wheel because my rim was really concave we decided to order a new wheel from SJS Cycles with a SON Dynamo hub built in.
We then bought a Busch and Muller 'E-werk' which allows the dynamo to have USB output and to change the voltage to charge lots of different things. So far we have used it effectively on mobile phones, USB and also an Android tablet.
The freedom given by the use of a GPS is amazing. It is especially useful when entering a city because thanks to the amazing free maps from Open Street Maps which you can just load on your GPS you get a perfect turn by turn guide to reach some of the most difficult parts of a city.
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