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So it seems that rainy days were left for the end. Actually today it was the first time that I had to delay the departure due to rain. Bursty rain same as yesterday. Which is not a problem when you’re on a holiday: it’s actually nice to lay down in the tent listening to the sound of raindrops. Being well […]

Gloomy day today. Soon after started cycling dark clouds covered the horizon in all directions (that’s one of the reasons of reduced amount of pictures) and it rained at bursts. So it was like putting all the time waterproof clothes on and off. You can’t really keep them on all the time, it gets hot while cycling. No matter how […]

And finally North Cape. As usual, you can’t beat the view. Although Knivskjelodden is 1,5 farther north, The cliff of Nordkapp is definitely the best balcony ever, looking at north where there’s no land to be seen. Actually there is still a lot of land, especially the Svalbard archipelago, but it’s at north west and so far away you can’t […]

As I’m writing this the time here is 3 a.m., but I don’t care. Today I’ve reached for the first time in my life the northernmost point of Europe, so I don’t care when I’m going to sleep, I’ll wake up later tomorrow. Tonight, tomorrow, the sun has been shining continuously, who keeps track of the time? The northernmost point […]

Today’s route brought me on the other side of the Porsanger fjord so, talking again and again about wind, I couldn’t be lucky twice: the first 40 km where towards the south and once again with tail wind. The rest was up north on the west side of the fjord. Let’s say after that I was I bit slower than […]

Yesterday I might have forgotten to mention a light rain: it lasted so long that at the end I was quite wet. Yes, I have waterproof equipment, but that gets wet anyway. And when putting up a tent in a wet terrain, shoes tend to get wet as well, no matter you have them covered or not. Now, everything is […]

If there is a god of tailwind, it seems he’s got his benevolent eyes on me again. Especially today, with such an instable weather and wind that went up to 15 km/h. How do I know the speed: by stopping. I already noticed that the temperature dropped down during the night (well, night, let’s say the time when it seems […]

It’s nice cycling when you have tail wind. Especially if the temperature is 10-15 degrees: you realise it just when you stop, otherwise it’s like no wind at all. The day started visiting Bugøynes, or Pykeijä in the local Finnish dialect. I was thinking to go there three years ago, but a worrying upcoming thunderstorm made me stop 20 km […]

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Tour de Finnmark 2016! The “long-lasting” tradition of a self-assisted cycling tour is revived this summer after the Tour de Finlande 2010 and the Tour de Laponie 2013. This time I decided to focus my trip just to Norway, in the region of Finnmark, that is, in the far north. Today I was just […]