Time, perhaps, to reactivate our blog?

Five years have passed: Eventful, frustrating ones – grounded by this, that, pandemics, injuries, tennis, the other – but finally we’re ready to go on another (modest) adventure. The new bikes are ready, and loaded to go:

Yes! These have engines. It’s all the fault of our Cairns Warmshowers host, Nick. Nick’s travel theory is that mountains call for engines. At least one of us is definitely convinced.

So, we’re all loaded up with the intention of trundling slowly, but much faster than before, to Norway’s North Cape. There’s definitely mountains en route. In maybe 2015 we cycled from Bergen south to Denmark, so we’ve crawled up some of them. After Nordkapp, we hope for a long, relaxed loop home via Finland and the Baltic states, then west along the Baltic coast. Brexit, alas, has limited us to 90 days, as there are no non-Schengen countries on the route. We planned this so long ago that St Petersburg was originally contemplated, but no longer.

Fingers crossed we manage it this year, unlike 2020, 2021, 2022…