If you are holidaying in a country where it snows a lot more often than it does in the UK, and you come out of your accommodation one day to find your vehicle looking like this,
don’t just take a photo and ignore it.
Remove the snow as soon as you discover your car is covered in the white stuff. I don’t know about...
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Yesterday the view from our cabin looked like this. You can’t see our deck, but you can see the deck and roof on the building next door are relatively clear of snow.
This morning, it looks like this. That layer of snow wasn’t there yesterday.
The weather forecast predicted 10cms of snow overnight; we haven’t...
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Today dawned blue-skied and sunny.
‘Let’s go to the beach’, we decided. We weren’t going to let half a foot of snow stop us from enjoying some sunshine and the proximity to sand.
Coming from NZ, the beach is the only thing I really miss, so when our hosts mentioned there was a sandy beach only about 40...
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Three things. That’s all I can offer you tonight.
It’s been a long and tiring day of driving around looking for the only supermarket in Tromso that’s open on a Sunday, and supervising kids who want to do nothing but frolic in the snow then cry every time they get cold. And despite a lovely night’s sleep...
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We are finally here. Fifteen hours after we set off from home this morning we are now 1400 miles away and are happily settled into a cozy little fisherman’s cabin in Norway.
Our cabin sits on the edge of a desolate fjord about 15 miles out of Tromso. The kids have been instructed that under no circumstances are they allowed to...
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