Wednesday 31st May 2017

Today we continued on E6 crossing high ground with magnificent views of snow covered scenery.

It feels a real privilege to be out here in a nice warm camper van passing through such wild and sparsely populated areas in such comfort!

We passed by some Sami settlements. This one had a church.

We came back down to sea level at the village of Olderfjord where the E69 branches off left up to the North Cape. We now turned south, still on the E6 down the west coast of the Porsangen Fjord. We saw lots of reindeer along the way, we also saw a British registered camper van going in the opposite direction! This was the first British registered vehicle, other than our own, we have seen for weeks! We stopped in the town of Lakselv to buy groceries and wine and then branched off the E6 and turned north on route 98. 

We stopped for the day on some waste ground on the east shore of the Porsangen Fjord. Here's the view out of our side door. Ann is as usual doing all the work!

Later on Ann took to reindeer stalking and managed to get this telephoto of one on the beach. This is the first time we have stopped north of the 70th parallel. Only one more degree of latitude to go before Europe runs out and the only land between us and the North Pole is the Svalbard Islands which are 537 miles (864 kilometres) north of mainland Norway! 

Today we traveled 111 miles (179 kilometres). We are at N70.08844 E25.21867