The Dom way round: September 2013

Monday, 2 September 2013

Our Scandinavia trip - the facts and figures

These are the facts and figures of our summer trip...

36 days

4,000 miles - 1,900 in Norway
1,500 in Sweden
500 in Denmark

Petrol prices...

Norway £1:65-80
Sweden £1:50
Denmark £1:45

Costs!

Total cost of the whole trip was around..... £4,000

That breaks up at around £900 for ferries to/from UK and Sweden/Denmark
£725 on BMW repairs in Trondheim
£400-500 in petrol
£2,500 to 3,000 on the rest.

It was worth every penny!

Thanks for reading and just a reminder that I will post here when my book is finally published. It should be in several weeks time, certainly before Christmas.

Dom

Hello

Hi. My name is Dom and in July 2010 I rode a motorcycle (partly) around the world. I started in Alaska and headed for Panama. It took me 6 months and I covered 21,000 miles. I then shipped my bike from Panama to South Africa. I returned to the UK for February and in March 2011 I flew to South Africa. Starting in Cape Town I took three months (and 9,000 miles) to get to Nairobi.

As well as riding a bike I stopped off and did some voluntary work along the way. In Mexico I worked on a turtle rescue project for two weeks and in Costa Rica at a Sloth Sanctuary for three weeks. In Cape Town I taught for three weeks in a Primary school in a township.

In North America my wife, Tracy, came out for three weeks and also joined me for two months in Central America.

I returned to the UK in June 2011. Although I'd kept a blog (obviously) throughout the trip I honestly had no desire to try to write a book. But that changed. Within days of getting home I started writing. Then in Autumn 2011 I found out about The Ted Simon Foundation and applied to be a Jupiter's Traveller. Unbelievably they accepted me and I starting a whole new, and much more frightening, adventure... Trying to write a book about my trip.

'Gone Riding' was published in November 2013. Signed copies are available direct from me at www.domgiles.co.uk. The book is also on Amazon where you can also get the kindle edition. There is lots more information about my trip and the book on my website where you'll find links to my Facebook page and Twitter account.

I now use this blog to write about my current bike trips. In 2013 we went to Scandinavia for the summer and in 2014 we went to Romania. Summer 2015 was spent solo around the Balkans. In July 2016 I went to Poland, the Baltic and Finland.

In the summer of 2017 we went to Northern Spain and France and in 2018 we went to Ireland.

I sold my bike in January 2019!!!