Our overnight stop on a car park on a minor road next to a lake worked very well. We had a peaceful night and a great view when we woke up. I was also feeling much improved by the morning.…

As I mentioned yesterday Sarah had discovered a Pizza and Kebab place only 200 metres from Basil’s location on the marina at Suomussalmi. We were so desperate to do something to celebrate our wedding anniversary we decided this was the…

Basil team members Sarah and Tim celebrated their 33rd wedding anniversary today. The other team members were baffled. Mabel and Melek have never been married, although Melek had fathered two litters of puppies before he joined team Basil, who quickly…

Team Basil is proud to announce that today it completed a walk without getting lost! This morning we awoke to find that we had managed to sleep right through the summer and had woken up sometime in late autumn. We…