In most respects Northern Russia has been forgotten by post-perestroika Moscow – the locals are in a 1930’s time warp, bartering carrots for bread, and earning a little cash where they can. Their houses are still owned by the State, so there’s no maintenance and yet no housing construction is happening either – no private […]
We’ve arrived – up at the Cape at 71 degrees 10 minutes North. So from McMurdo Sound to here it’s been 149 degrees of latitude for us with our bikes this year, out of a possible 180. And I take back what I said about the reindeer in Norway. There are no signs up here […]
Yes the roadsigns here in Lapland, Norway warning us of the hazards of Moose and Reindeer are more common than those indicating speed zones – and that’s saying something. We saw a few of these signs in Alaska and the Yukon too in 2006, but nowhere as many as we have seen here – so […]
Done it again – this time riding up Norway as opposed to the Haul Road to Deadhorse, Alaska. And it’s quite different here – there are farms well north of 66 degrees, 33 minutes, whereas in Alaska there was tundra and permafrost and that’s about it – beautiful though. They say it’s the impact […]
That’s how Norway’s scenery can be described. If you blend three NZ roads – the one into Milford, the one around Lakes Rotoiti & Rotoma, and finally the Gates of Haast – you have Norway virtually covered. Not a bad combo actually and then when you get out along the coast all the little islands […]
Day off today to see the sights of Iceland’s capital, Reykjavik. So I lept at the chance to get down to the harbour and see if someone would take me out fishing. I was in luck – out into the fog we steamed, in an old trawler and just 5 kms offshore to drop our […]
Disembarking in the fog and quickly climbing the mountains to an ice-capped summit we thought maybe all we’d see of Iceland during a 7 days circumnavigation would be fog. But within an hour that fear was dealt to and conditions cleared to reveal a vast volcanic barrenness that is the north east of Iceland. It […]
We unpacked our bikes from the barn near Heathrow where they’d been stored and rode up Britain to John O’Groats. No dramas really – bit of trouble getting used to the new GPS and some wrong turns but all pretty smooth as we rode through the drizzle that apparently is not uncommon for an early […]
Yes the global traverse resumes Tuesday June 10th when the crew flies to London to dust off the Africa bikes, get them north to Scotland and then on the ferry to Seyoisfjordur! Where the hell is that you may well ask – it’s out on the east coast of Iceland and it’s from there we […]
Our motorcycle trip ‘Under African Skies’ from Cape Town to London… in photos! Or thumb through the galleries below.
