.....This is Jefferey!....We met him at Nordkapp.....He'd ridden all the way from the Netherlands on his Tomos moped.....

...The road upto Nordkapp involved several tunnels....The longest one is nearly 7km long.....The lights of the MT seem to vanish into nothingness in the tunnels and you have no points of reference.....The sound of the engine is amplified at times and at others just seems to disappear.....It costs about £13 each way for bike & 2 people!....The Norwegians seem to manage to extort high sums of money for not a lot!......Some prices I have seen so far include nearly £5 for 5 stanley knife blades, £1 for a bar of chocolate (the size of an after eight mint!), a standard 200g bar of chocolate is about £5, a hot dog & chips at a garage is close to £10!......No wonder tonight we decided to nip back into Finland for the night and nip to the shops here....

.....Today was a hard days ride.....Only a touch over a hundred miles but 
much of it on gravel.....Right up in the northern reaches of Norway.....It was really cold and it rained heavily on our tent last night.....We camped in a birch forest.....away from the road but full of mosquitoes.......We took alot of care to keep them out of the tent....Didn't get too much sleep though.....Today's ride was cold and a little bit wet.....I'm amazed at how well my ex-army Goretex overtrousers keep the rain out......and my new rubber gloves, bought at a garage in Finland last week to replace my mitts I lost in Sweden make brilliant over gloves for the rain.....Today had so many changing landscapes....If it hadn't been for the snow and rain, the first part of the road could have been desert.....The afternoon felt a little like Snowdonia but on a bigger scale.......