One more for the road

Here we are in Stavanger, Norway, at the start of yet another week of driving to unfamiliar and unpronounceable places with nothing but (two) SatNav systems to guide us.

Russ travelled to Donny on Friday evening and we got over to Sheffield for the Evo's first service before 9am. Stew et al kindly provided coffee and breakfast before we headed back home for lunch and the ensuing two hour journey to Newcastle was very easy. We even had time to stop at the Angel of the North to take some snaps before heading through the Tyne Tunnel to the DFDS ferry terminal.

On the way up we called the Mitsubishi dealership that had just supplied our latest chariot to enquire what we could do about masking the headlights for driving on the right. Unfortunately, as the car is so new (so the kits available on the ferry will likely not work) and there is no electrical option to repoint the lights, the suggestion was to park the car at night facing a wall and to use electrical tape for a bit of refractive DIY. Not quite the stylish and fiendishly clever solution we expected for such an expensive car.

The Queen of Scandinavia carried across the millpond-like North Sea in 19 hours or so and border formalities at both ends were almost non-existent. People watching in the bar was great fun, especially the terrible she-male pianist/singer that by the power of only sound did "its" best to get everyone to go to bed.

The hotel in Stavanger is very pleasant and the weather is fine and warm. We're going to head out to the old town to see what's there, although most things do not open on Sundays. After some tea we'll head over to the airport to meet Jens who's travelling a torturous route via Stockholm and Oslo, before we head out in earnest tomorrow morning.

We quite liked the direct approach taken by the coiffeurs in Norway - hence the picture.