A photo from the Viking Planet museum in Haugesund. It is a description of aging in the Viking age

If I was a Viking I’d now be classed as a ‘burden to society’.

Standard teenage questions: “Is it true that an octopus could go into your mouth, work its way all the way through you and come out of your bum?”

When I say mountain laws, I meant it’s a 9-point guide to staying safe in the mountains.

My hand holding a Kvikk Lunsj chocolate bar. The wrapping has red, yellow and green stripes.

The inside of the wrapper. It has 9 statements to help people be safe in the mountains. These are written in Norwegian.

Kvikk Lunsj. Norway’s answer to a KitKat.

And possibly better than a KitKat.

It even has mountain laws listed inside.

A Norwegian solskinnsboller on a plate. It has a golden outer pastry that looks platted. In the middle is a bright yellow vanilla custard

The best Norwegian pastry: solskinnsboller.

A cinnamon pastry with a vanilla custard centre.

A sign for Shabby records in Haugesund. It has the sign ‘Rock hard player louder’ in the window.

Found this cool record store that my eldest wanted to go in.

Spent a few minutes nodding along to some Norwegian death metal while she was checking out the vinyls.

Looking up a street in Haugesund. There are white wooden homes either side of the road. The cloud is low.

Looking down on a street from a bridge. There are a row of houses either side of the road. They are wooden with light grey slate roof tiles.

Some street art of a chicken of some kind. It’s holding a coffee mug and has a speech bubble with the words: ‘Ken the kylling. Ta ein selfie’.

The side of a wooden shuttered building. It has a maritime sign with the letters ‘HMV’ and an illustration of an anchor and some kegs.

Last port: Haugesund.

Something about this place. Felt quite grungy, which I really liked.

A view of Alesun from the Aksla viewpoint. The city stretches out in front on a peninsula. Either side are mountains and the sea.

The view from Aksla of the sea, which is flat and calm, snow topped mountains and a clear blue sky.

A signpost at the bottom of Aksla showing various routes and walls.

Aksla.

418 steps up. Cake. 418 steps down.

Officially the furthest north I’ve ever run.

62.4711° N,
6.1558° E

The sun rising over the sea in Alesund. There are mountains in the distance. The sun is reflecting on the water.

A building. It has a big sign and clock on the top with the logo of Norwegian chocolate company Freia. There is a mural in the front with stripes in different colours.

Early morning run views (ashore) in Alesund 🇳🇴

A glacier in Norway. In front is a clear lake. To the left is a grey ‘beach’. The mountains are around and the glacier is in front. There is snow and ice.

Briksdal Glacier 🏔️ 🇳🇴

The Bishop

A papal representative on his way to meet the US president

Snow capped mountains surround the water.

Morning run views: on a boat, on a fjord surrounded by snow-capped mountains 🏔️

Rows of labels from sardines tins lined up on a board. They are bright and colourful with various graphics and illustrations.

Stavanger cannery museum

A Bansky street art stencil of a man throwing something.

A mural of Michelangelo’s David filled with graffiti.

A piece of street art showing two workers in hi-vis tabards. One is giving the other a foot up.

A street art stencil or a boy holding up his middle finger. The boy appears to be shouting.

Stavanger street art

Wooden shuttered Norwegian homes. One is painted mustard yellow with black window frames. The other is white with a red tile roof.

A shop. It has a very bright green vibrant wooden exterior with peach coloured trims. The sky is bright blue.

The Bok er & Borst, beer and book shop. It’s wooden panels painted orange.

Stavanger 🇳🇴

The sun is starting to rise over land. The is a small island in front with the silhouette of some houses.

The sun is getting brighter over land, Norway. You can see some of the boat in front of me.

14 laps of the running deck (2 miles) before breakfast to watch the sun start to rise over Norway 🇳🇴

A jigsaw of the Titanic.

On a cruise to Norway with the girls.

Found this jigsaw in the library bar 👌🏻

A sign above a stage for Greg Davies’ Full Fat Legend show at the Hall for Cornwall.

Here we go…

1980s hair metal guitarist vibes…

The sun going down over the sea and beach. There are silhouettes of people fishing on the shore.

Sun setting over Eype Beach last night.

The sun over the sea and beach. Fluffy white clouds are in the sky.

And a final sea view at Seatown after a pit stop for a non alcoholic beer at The Anchor Inn.

A view overlooking Chesil Beach from a viewpoint on the side of the road. You can see the lake behind the shingle spit and the sea.

Looking back on Chesil Beach on the way back to Eype.

Two wooden huts both pained grey. The one on the left has bright orange window shutters. The one on the left has turquoise window shutters.

Green window shutters on a beach but. The paint is peeling n

A stone beach hut, or fisherman’s hut. Next to it is a small dinghy.

Portland Bill beach huts.

A tall lighthouse painted white with a red striped bit in the middle. The sky is clear blue.

Looking out to sea from Portland Bill.

Then onto Portland to see Portland Bill lighthouse.

Looking up at the top of Chesil Beach. The stones on the beach are golden in colour. The sky is clear blue.

Looking across Chesil Beach with the sea lapping against the shore. The sky is clear blue.

Stop at Chesil Beach.

First visit to the beach that’s engraved in my brain from GCSE geography.

A bridge over a tidal river is raised to allow a boat to sail through.

A row of old houses with curved bay windows painted in yellow and pink line the harbour in Weymouth

A day of exploring.

Weymouth this morning.

The view through a small rectangular window. There is the top of a Victorian red brick house, as well as trees and fields. Small white clouds are in the blue sky b

View from the tiny window in our Dorset cottage.

A clear morning after the wind finally stopped battering us around 3am.

A view of the Jurassic Coast at Lyme Regis. Lots of people are on the beach hunting for fossils.

A fossil embedded in the wall on the steps down to the beach.

A statue of Mary Anning. She is holding a fossil in her left hand and a small hammer in her right hand.

Looking for fossils in Lyme Regis

Stained glass windows for Electric Palace cinema in Bridport. The background is blue. The lettering in a light orange.

Loving the cinema / theatre in Bridport