Magical Mystery DeTour

The E6, which is the road which takes us all the way to the NK, is in parts narrow and twisty now. It also has gangs working on it relaying the tarmac asthey can only do this in the few short summer weeks. Mostly, you just ride between the workers but on one occasion, the yesterday the road was closed and we were sent over a nountain range. "No worries", the man said in Norwegian, "10 minutes, that's all". Perhaps I misunderstood. It was however, fantastic as we climbed up and we stopped near the top to take stock.

The snow was still there but I guess we weren't that high and still 100 miles south of the Arctic Circle. Tim figured the water looked get great so insisted we both drank some. (Mum - if I die, its poisoning from the dead deer floating up stream.)

The detour was great though as we saw wilder terrain and even more great roads. Whislt, passing time there we saw our first police car too. He was going our way and after another 30 minutes we caught him up and he kindly gave us an escort into Moriana.

Ironically in Moriana we pulled up at randon outside a hotel and both suddenly realised it was one we had stayed at in 2004 the last time we rode here. It was full so we had to stay elsewhere but all was sorted and we watched Brazil dazzle Chile in a pub. Well, we were in a pub  and they were in a stadium but you know what I mean.

And finally, this shot was taken whilst stopped at yet another road works. What a backdrop!