Well you have all seen photo’s like this at many burger bars. But have you ever paid $27 NZD for a burger small chips and a coke. If you come to Norway and expect to dine on burgers you will need to Super Size your wallet.  Tony

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 […]

When we were leaving Reykjavik in Iceland we had a huge bag of fresh cod that we hadn’t been able to eat. Being of a frugal nature I was looking for someone who might like it, waste not want not. So I met Anna, an older lady stooped, delivering the local papers and asked her […]

We have two more countires to add to our fuel comparision list. Here is the summary spreadsheet. Petrol 95 Octane Country Cost per litre Equivalent NZD per Litre % more Expensive than NZ England  1.26 $3.30 33.86% Iceland  182 $2.89 24.54% Denmark 11.05 $2.76 21.09% Norway 14.02 $3.63 39.95% New Zealand   $2.18   Norway […]

No Tony don’t you mean “Punctures”…… There is one thing that I have learnt about bike trips, tell your story before someone else does.  Today was an eventful day, we had planned to cover just on 460kms. Things were going well until we left the local eatery after lunch only to see that one of […]

My first exposure to EU pricing came after I picked up the first Dakar from storage in England. I pulled in a the Shell service station in Ickenham only to find that it cost ₤ 17 sterling to fill one of the bikes. The bikes weren’t completely empty but the fuel lights were on.   In […]

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 […]

One of my first impressions of Iceland has been the amount of farming particularly by the coast. I thought it would be cold and bleak but have been surprised by the amount of pastoral land, and coming from a harsh NZ winter it seems strange to see all the farmers out making hay. This was […]

I woke today with the smell of bacon and eggs wafting from the kitchen, Tony was doing our breakfast. Table service was provided by Roger and coffee by Phil. Gareth was doing the reading of what’s on in the capital of Iceland. Aren’t I the luckiest girl in the world having such a group of […]

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 […]