North Cape to Gibraltar

Noordkapp (North Cape) is the most northerly point on mainland Europe (almost, of which more later).
Son Freddie and I were there to test satellite TV equipment but we took time out to make a 12 mile round-trip trek to the point that's REALLY the northernmost point, not just the northernmost point with a carpark, restaurant, souvenir shop and a big metal thing which you have to stand in front of to have your photo taken - to show that you've been to the northernmost point etc. - almost.

When we got back to the motorhome it was great to be able to pile in with the 5 hitch-hikers we'd picked up and have a nice cup of tea and a biscuit.

The satellite stuff worked exactly as expected but, frankly, there wasn't anything we wanted to watch and we were too far north to get BBC Radio so we tuned in to Radio Caroline "the sound of the nation" on Eurobird 1 and grooved to Lynyrd Skynyrd and Freebird. Far out man.

Lots of Reindeer alerts as we motored down the otherwise almost empty roads. They seem to know that you're coming but just don't care. They'll move when they want to and that's that.



Then south: on,on.