Europe 2026
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![Swamped in Sweden to Biking Paradise in Oulu [June 2026]](https://buff3ysbicyclingblog.info/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Penny-Farthing.jpeg)
Swamped in Sweden to Biking Paradise in Oulu [June 2026]
South of Pello on the Finland side of the border, I cross over into Sweden for the final cruise down to the Baltic sea. The road on the Swedish side is a delight in that a long-ago railroad track is now a pretty serviceable gravel path running beside the road on a steady trajectory towards…
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![Battling the Bæskades Mountain Plateau, on ‘The Old Postal Road’, Norway [May 2026]](https://buff3ysbicyclingblog.info/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Shelter-at-Top-of-the-Baskades-mountain-plain-1.jpeg)
Battling the Bæskades Mountain Plateau, on ‘The Old Postal Road’, Norway [May 2026]
When one casts one’s mind to the Norwegian postal service of the late 1700s, as one is from time to time inevitably wont to do, thoughts meander off to visions of hardy souls with teams of reindeer hauling sled loads of mail over the snow laden Bæskades mountains, through all manner of storm and adversity,…
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![Sampling Smør in Honningsvåg, Norway, [May 2026]](https://buff3ysbicyclingblog.info/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Nordkapp.jpeg)
Sampling Smør in Honningsvåg, Norway, [May 2026]
Getting to the northern most tip of Norway takes a little bit of doing. I fly from Sydney to London via Singapore; London to the Finnish capital of Helsinki; then north-west from Helsinki to Tromsø (Norway) with a pit-stop in Rovaniemi; then north-east from Tromsø, with another pit stop in Hammerfest. Finally arriving in the…