Please Air Canada don\u2019t lose my luggage!
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<\/figure>\n\n\n\n I\u2019ve been told by my Down Under hosts that it will be warm, however I will bring cold weather clothing just in case!
For comparison, here are the lines of latitude for various places:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kingsville, Barcelona and Rome 42 N parallel **<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Edmonton Alberta 53N parallel<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Yellowknife NWT 62N parallel **<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Copenhagen 55N parallel **<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Alesund Norway 62N parallel **\u2026..so I think I am safe to say it could be cool\/cold on this trip, hope I\u2019m proved wrong!
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We were told by the lead guide to pack \u2018eye blinders\u2019 for 2 reasons; it only gets dark for 2 hours a day, and the folks in Denmark and Norway don\u2019t use curtains on their windows!<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Vikings are often portrayed as one-dimensional warriors, invaders, barbarians and predators, whose achievements include little more than plundering and raiding. BUT they were more than that, an ancient culture and religion with a direct closeness to the environment. They were farmers, fishermen, traders and travellers centuries before their invasion of Northumbria at Lindisfarne in 793AD. The Viking empire stretched from Constantinople to Northern Africa, most of Europe, Iceland, Greenland, the UK and North America, a major player from the 5th to 10th centuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Burial grounds discovered in Scandinavia showed men and women were interred (when not cremated) with personal items such as ships, swords, shields, jewellery etc, to take with them to Valhalla, the goal of every Viking. *the term beserk comes from beserkir<\/strong>, the Norse word for a special fierce, no fear frenetic kind of warrior. We may look like we are going beserk on this trip, but really we will just be having fun!<\/p>\n\n\n\n ***Copenhagen is the most cycling friendly city in the world, with 546 km (340miles) of bike paths, and 50% of all travel is by bike), so despite our best efforts, we won\u2019t be upstaging our Scandinavian hosts!\u2026.we most probably will learn from them. There might not be a better place from which to begin a bike trip!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Our first 7 days will be riding in Denmark, then a short ferry ride to the southwest shore of Norway for 20 more days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cRising like a storm out of the sparkling canals of Copenhagen to a crescendo among the epic fjords, snowy peaks and roaring waterfalls of Norway.<\/strong>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n As Sheryl Crow sang, \u201call I want to do is have some fun, I got a feelin\u2019 I\u2019m not the only one\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hello!\u2026after The Odyssey, I vowed I would never write another blog. Well, that was then and this is now, another cycling trip, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/bikeodyssey.cc\/velo-valhalla\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2024\/04\/IMG_6421-1024x576.jpeg\")
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However, no excavations have shown evidence that Vikings rode bicycles\u2026my fellow berserkers* and I will show them how it\u2019s done!!***<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/bikeodyssey.cc\/velo-valhalla\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2024\/04\/IMG_4581-1024x675.jpeg\")
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