Having read my blog last night Sarah has declared that I did Mosjoen an injustice. I put in too many of my favourite colourful warehouse and boathouse shots and I didn’t show the “lovely shopping streets”. Fair enough, so I start today with two more Mosjoen shots with not a brightly coloured building to be seen. But I still think those bright colours shot contrasting with nature are superb!

Mosjoen in more muted tones.

Mosjoen “shopping street”. Note the fake washing hanging out to dry. We liked that touch.

It’s a good job Sarah spoke up, because there’s not much else to go in today’s post. It’s been a driving day. We travelled non stop from last night’s idyllic overnight halt to the campsite on which we intend to spend the next two nights.

We have discovered today that this part of Norway actually has some fairly benign scenery. The mountains have disappeared and in their place gently rolling hills, albeit with some beautiful lakes and the River Nansen, which we followed for nearly 50 miles. We have even seen some almost meaningful agriculture, with wheat and barley fields and some dairy farms. The result is that the E6 has been an easy drive today and as fast as Norway’s 80 kph (50 mph) speed limit will allow. We even had our first, short, bit of duel carriageway since southern Finland and not a single noteworthy tunnel all day.

We arrived at Camping Gullberget in the early afternoon (63.622985, 11.069636). We chose it because it was relatively cheap at 250 NOK (€27) including electricity and it was supposed to have decent wifi, so I could get on with planning the rest of Norway. The wifi is, shall we say, intermittent, but hopefully it will be good enough.

It has been a beautiful day again. 23 degrees celsius and the promised rain has not materialised, yet. Sarah has sorted Melek and me out. First a short back and sides for me and then a slightly less radical haircut for Melek, using the same clippers! The laundry is also hanging up to dry, Sarah having done three loads at the cheap price of 35 NOK a throw. A bargain for any campsite.

Sarah has just come back from a dog walk and got me all excited. There is a lake opposite the campsite, which Sarah can’t work out how to access, but there are signs saying it is very special for waterfowl. I think the birding lens may be coming out to play tomorrow, if the promised rain holds off!