Southdowners
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Nordcap was 'interesting' in that the wind was so strong we had to head quite literally for a port in a storm. At midnight we decided to leave the cliff edge and head 20 miles down the coast to a little fishing village... it was an experience to say the least!
Finland feels like a rest from the terrors of the Norwegian roads. The pics show a very near miss with a rock fall - the largest rock was the size of a small car. It happened just before we rounded the bend. Luckily it was on a wide (by Norwegian standards) road - the first pic was of a more typical road earlier in the day.
Typical roads in Norway are horrendous... you can go for miles on single track with passing places - which sounds OK until you realise one side is a sheer rock face and the other is a similarly sheer drop of several hundred feet.
Anyway we survived and are now in Sami country - the last wilderness in Europe. We're going native being quite adept at foraging, fishing and lighting campfires! I collected a bucketful of mushrooms this morning only to check online and find they're highly toxic and would've killed us! If we get back to the UK alive it will be quite something!!
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