Polar Challenge Blog

As we were going to a diffrent home point to the rest of the team we were parting company. So Elvis and I were up at 8 and showered then packed all our things up ready to leave for 9. We waited untill folks were up to say our goodbyes then a Sleeply Richard poped his head out of his tent and then Jeff did the same so we went over to say good buy and then Ivan got up so we said good buy to him as well. Rory was not up yet so we asked the others to say good buy for us.
We planed our route to go to Bergen and as it took us though Rovaniemi which is where Santa spends his summer we stopped by to say hello to the old boy.
We got there for 13:30 so went around his magic kindom (No pictures allowed poo) and there was a massive que to see him so we jumped ship and headed back out. Pete and Dee (Our stuff pigs) had there pictures taken and then we got back on the road again. Stopping only for fuel and a wee we were making real good progress as the sat nav was saying we had to cover 1700 kilometers.
This seemed a bit much in one day so after doing 450 miles we found Mossgatan Campsite which has wi-fi and headed there to set up camp. We got here for 19:00 so were real please with our progress for the day.
We are camped at Valkommen and the site is one of the best we have seen and the prices arn’t to bad, though you need the camping card which we tried to get before coming here but it never came. Still we have one now so it can be used to save some money from here to Bergen.
The high light of the day was we actuly seen some Moose OK it was only two and we could not stop to get a picture as we were on the motorway but seen them we did. That means on this trip we have seen Foxes, Sheep, Cats, Raindeers and Moose all in the wild the best way to see them.
The Sun is still shinning here even though we are now below the Artic Circle but it should soon start getting darker at night the further we drive we are now back in Sweden.

Geoff

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