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Day 4: Reunited with our backpacks (and having made the important realisation that you should always pack a spare pair of underwear in your carry-on luggage), we were ready to take on the world again.
But were we ready for a six hour drive northwards from oslo followed by a 14km walk around a fjord […]

Day 3: After passing through immigration in Oslo in record time, we descended to the baggage collection hall to find ourselves caught in a seething mass of inbound Norwegians moving as one towards the airport duty free store. “When in Oslo, do as the Oswegians do,” we thought, so we picked up what we thought […]

Day 3: A short walk from the Oslo Central train station, Anker Hostel was clean and central. As check in was at 3pm, we dropped our bags and headed off into the city.
It was a no frills hostel experience, with nothing in our room that couldn’t be cleaned with a fire hose and not so […]

On our first two nights away we’ll be staying in two cities that are among the richest and poorest in the world.

Day -15: Our attention is fast turning to the first leg of our trip - seven days in Norway with brother Tim. We’re not entirely sure what Tim has in store for us but if it involves consecutive days of hiking through rugged mountain ranges, it may be one of the most physically challenging parts […]

Day -31: Why Norway? Well, that’s where my brother Tim has been working for the last few years. As a marine scientist and aquaculture expert, Norway is where it has all been happening for him. Fishing is a major industry throughout Scandinavia and there’s plenty of European money for research to ensure that the industry […]

Day -34: By now, planning for the trip is well underway. In fact, we’ve been planning for the trip in some shape or form since, in a flash of inspiration, we starting saving up for it more than four years ago.
After listing all the places that we wanted to visit, we needed to cut it […]

We set off on our “trip of a lifetime”, a ten-nation adventure that will take us to Norway, Greece, Turkey, Syria, Jordan, Israel, Egpyt, India and Nepal over a period of up to six months.