Team Basil were shaken from their reverie by the shrill tones of the ubiquitous iPhone alarm. At 7.15 it was so early even the dogs rolled over and went back to sleep. The human members of the team had no…

Having made the decision to cut short our time in the Western Fjords because of bad weather, inevitably today dawned with a clear blue sky! I don’t know what the weather is like further north, but I felt a tinge…

Our sleep was accompanied, all night long, by the drumming of rain on Basil’s roof. By the time morning arrived both Sarah and I had mentally decided we would head for Oslo and cut our final three days in the…

Just as you think you’ve seen everything Norway has to show, it pulls another rabbit out of the hat! Nobody came to turf us off our illicit camping spot overnight, in fact we were joined in our quasi trespass by…