12 Dec 2020 | Diaries, Europe, Norway
Never say never While reading messages on our facebook page and on our livemedia.gr reports, besides witnessing the admiration and wishes for safe travels from most followers, I noticed a phrase that 3-4 different of them wrote… Vaguely the phrase...
28 Nov 2020 | Diaries, Europe, Norway
Alta to Tromso, 5 days road Five days to cover 400 kilometres? An average tourist might have done it in a single day or maximum two, winter time. We could be still driving for five more days. In anyway this is a breathtaking route. The national road E6 twists, climbs,...
25 Nov 2020 | Diaries, Europe, Norway
When did you enter Norway? Finally we met fellow overlanders – this was only the third time since we entered Scandinavia two and half months ago. A couple from Germany, friends of our friends with a monstrous 4×4 truck fitted with a 15-litre, 450 hp engine,...
30 Oct 2020 | Diaries, Europe, Norway
Northern lights hunters The first time is very special, almost like an incredible gift of nature. The second night you start believing it’s true. And soon you get addicted. It was September 27th, the night we parked on the lakeside gravel road that crosses Koli...
23 Oct 2020 | Diaries, Europe, Norway
Life below zero degrees It’s not only tricky driving on ice. At temperatures below zero – we had down to -6 in the last two nights – we face different other problems, which test ourselves and our Iveco’s systems. We are OK with that, we will survive and we...
19 Oct 2020 | Diaries, Europe, Norway
Iveco on the rocks It’s only 19 October and here is the first snow. In Lapland of course. We spent two days at Hetta, the last village in Finland, before entering in Norway. We were nicely accommodated at a parking lot downtown with 220V outlets. Yesterday we crossed...
