We're now in Fjordland proper staying in a village called Flam. We drove up from Bergen yesterday in bright sunshine but still very cold but as there was a blue sky Gordon insisted on wearing shorts again, and has been the subject of much Norwegian hilarity ever since ! The route took us along the Hardanger fjord (see photo below) and rose to altitudes of >1000m so there was plenty of snow about - in fact we passed several ski fields ! It was very beautifu...

This is Norway calling - We arrived in the land of the midnight sun at midnight yesterday (this was unexpected, as I'd somehow manged to mis-read the arrival time for the ferry, we thought we were getting in at 3pm)�and undertook a hairy drive through the alley ways and avenues of Bergen to land at a campsite somewhere eastish from where we started at about one in the morning.We awoke this morning to some fairly freakish weather, zero degrees (not ...

Week 2: We have travelled the length and breadth of Britain visiting family and friends - or it feels like that the number of times we've been up and down the A82 anyway! We've now just finished our second VSO training course on Development which was good but hard work - a bit of a culture shock after not doing any proper work for a while! It was really interesting though certainly brought home how us rich countries are so responsible for the problems i...

Hurrah, blog finally set up though still no camera and forgot about bank holiday so can't get one till next week. Will get lots of van photos then to impress you all! The New Forest was quite nice but a bit of a holiday camp atmosphere and of course with the easter holidays on a few too many kids about for Miranda's liking! The Lake District campsite - the quiet site in Ullswater - was more our cup of tea - great views, nice and quiet and on site bar wit...