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NEVER MIND THE GEAR(S)
Flying back & app info
After arriving back in Alta and extricating Claud from the underbelly of the bus, I treated myself to one last salad bowl at Bunnpris &...
Tim Bugler
Aug 8, 20254 min read
Day 34 updated, Nordkapp Tunnel to Nordkapp (47 kms... + 30 kms back!)
It took the Ven Claud over four hours to complete this last 50-ish km – I'm sure the old machine would have done it much faster without...
Tim Bugler
Aug 4, 20254 min read
Day 33, Skaidi to North Portal, Nordkapp Tunnel (102 kms)
A hard but good day's ride, up and over the plateau above the Goahtemourjohka River valley, then down to Olderfjord where I was pleased...
Tim Bugler
Aug 3, 20252 min read
Day 32, Alta to Skaidi (90 kms)
The EV1 route out of Alta next passes one of the most beautiful churches I've visited – the Northern Lights Cathedral, just on the north...
Tim Bugler
Aug 3, 20252 min read


Day 31: Bognelv to Alta (70 kms)
A number of tunnels today, some closed to cyclists necessitating, in one case, a 10 km detour, others that just had to be braved. Towards...
Tim Bugler
Aug 1, 20252 min read
Day 30, Storslett to Bognelv (94 kms)
A long day's cycling – 10 hours in the saddle, bar a few minutes for lunch and 20 minutes having a coffee in a garage while my phone...
Tim Bugler
Jul 31, 20251 min read
Day 29, Storsteiness to Storslett (86 kms)
It was raining when I went to sleep, and it was still raining when I woke up, wildcamped on a patch of field margin on a strip of land...
Tim Bugler
Jul 30, 20252 min read
Days 27 & 28: Kvaløya to Tromso and Tromso to Storsteinnes, near Svensby (140 kms)
A minute past midnight on Day 27 saw me wild camped by the ferry quay at Brensholmen on Kvaloya just as the sun was coming up: Sunrise on...
Tim Bugler
Jul 29, 20253 min read
Days 25 & 26, Hanoya Island to Brensholmen, Island of Kvaløya (210 kms)
My wild camp spot on Hanoya Island, on a substrate of sphagnum moss, proved so comfortable and quiet that I overslept, and it was gone...
Tim Bugler
Jul 27, 20254 min read


Day 24 Austvagoya Island to Hinnoya Island (120 kms)
After a night's wildcamp quite close to the busy E10 highway on Austvagoya, the largest of the Lofotens, it was time to head for the...
Tim Bugler
Jul 25, 20253 min read


Days 22 & 23: Moskenes to Austvagoya Island (153 kms)
Day 22 began and ended with my toolkit out, but went swimmingly in between. My first problem with the bike was quickly fixed -- both legs...
Tim Bugler
Jul 24, 20253 min read
Days 20 & 21: Helgeland Bridge to Nesna (38 kms) and Nesna to Moskenes, Lofoten Islands (est 200 kms by ferry)
Neither my legs nor Claud's tyres have seen much action the last two days, not indeed has much of huge cultural significance passed my...
Tim Bugler
Jul 22, 20254 min read
Day 19: Salhus to Helgeland Bridge (110k)
Today's distance includes two ferries First another electric one -- all charged up this time -- from Horn to the ferry quay of...
Tim Bugler
Jul 20, 20252 min read
Days 17 & 18, Isle of Elvalandet to Salhus (200 km)
One can't overstate how beautiful this country is – but I guess there's a limit to how often one can say it. Fjord Norway is stunning,...
Tim Bugler
Jul 19, 20253 min read
Day 16, Beitstad to Isle of Elvalandet (82 kms)
A great day's cycling, marred only slightly by the seemingly ever-higher temperatures. It was already hot when I woke at 6.30 am, and...
Tim Bugler
Jul 17, 20252 min read
Day 15, forest clearing near Mosvik to Beitstad (96 kms)
The Cycling to Norkapp Parliament met in a shady spot near a service station in the attractive little industrial town (seriously, not...
Tim Bugler
Jul 16, 20253 min read
Day 14 Trondheim to Mosvik ( 83 kms)
The university city Trondheim, the fourth largest city in Norway with a population about that of Aberdeen is stunning, and with so much...
Tim Bugler
Jul 16, 20255 min read
Day 12: Bruhagen to Trondheim (170 kms incl 155 by boat)
I crawled out of my tent, in a farmer's field just across the water from what someone had proudly informed me was the largest salmon-feed...
Tim Bugler
Jul 13, 20254 min read
Day 11: Malmefjorden to Bruhagen (75 kms)
Today the Ven Claud and I ticked off one of the highlights of this trip -- traversing Norway's five-and-a-bit mile "Atlantic Ocean Road",...
Tim Bugler
Jul 12, 20253 min read
Day 10 Sovik to Malmefjorden (88 kms)
A superb day's cycling -- warm, dry, gentle breeze -- and not much more to be said than that! The first 17 kms took me down to the ferry...
Tim Bugler
Jul 11, 20252 min read
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