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Day 23 of not driving to the Arctic and, fear not, I won’t subject you to more videos of us shopping or cooking. But I will offer a brief update the evening before V-Day, as tomorrow morning is when we find out if our van can get back on the road. The podcast that follows is the same one you’ll find on your Spotify/Apple Podcast apps - I’m sure you all subscribe to Britain’s number 1 rated golf...

Day 22 and we’re still stuck. Yesterday I asked if you wanted to see our cookery show pilot. The response from a small handful of people was truly overwhelming so, here we are. I must admit these videos seemed to have gone from the strange to the bizarre recently, and this might be the peak of it. For your sake, as much as ours, I hope we’ll soon be back on the road and some semblance of agreea...

Day 21 and we’re still Stranded in Sweden. With little else to do while we wait for the garages to re-open we thought we’d head to the local supermarket. Can the dogs come with us? A question I’ve never thought to ask and certainly didn’t think I’d care enough to test out. But until normal content can resume, we may as well find out. Hopefully we’ll be back on our way again soon but, until then...

Day 20 is not the day we’d planned on having, but a lot better than it could have been! Our van is stuck until we can get a new alternator and fan belt fitted, but that won’t be til Monday at the earliest. So what else can we do but explore Harnosand and make the best of it? It’s all part of the adventure. Can’t drive to the Arctic from England in an old van and expect plain sailing the whole w...

Disaster has struck. Our poor campervan, a veteran of the road, is in trouble. Over the past couple of weeks we've driven 4, 315 miles from our home in Hoylake, England up to the Arctic Circle and now back down through Sweden. Apart from a flat tyre in Episode 13 of this series, it's handled the journey without incident of complaint. That is, until now. After changing the tyre, more warnings st...

After the highs of finally seeing The Northern Lights, Harriet and I continued our drive south fully satisfied with our time in the Arctic Circle. It’s a long road back towards civilisation, and it cuts through the expansive pine forests of Lapland. Clearly the forest is worked, and worked hard. There’s evidence of the deforestation that underpins the main industry in this part of Sweden. The c...

The start of Day 17 presented us with a choice. Should we continue driving north? It would be three days of driving, little in the ways of views and, most significantly, virtually no chance of seeing the fabled Northern Lights. Harriet and I have long harboured a dream of seeing the Aurora Borealis. We had both read Philip Pullman’s His Dark Material series in our respective youths, and listene...

Two worlds collide - a special episode of Golf Badgers, the golf architecture and greenkeeping podcast I host alongside James Bledge, takes over the channel today. Instead of showing more footage of the beautiful Lofoten Isles (see Day 15 for this, if you haven't already - it's really beautiful), I thought you might want to hear from Jerry. Jerry has been the course manager at the famous Lofote...

Today’s episode is slightly different. After leaving Lofoten Links we drive to the Unstad Arctic Surf centre. The beach there is beautiful, and we watch some of the surfers braving the Norwegian Sea. Then it’s time to relax and unwind on the drive back down Lofoten towards Moskenes. The last two videos in this series have been quite full on. The drama of getting over the Arctic Circle in Day 13...

Well, we set out to drive to the Arctic Circle and play golf at Lofoten Links and we’ve done it! It was about as big an expedition as we were expecting it to be, and the extraordinary setting of Lofoten Links proved to be a worthwhile destination. This is the last leg of the drive round to the course itself, and then a vlog of actually playing the golf course. We need to decide where to next… T...

Per Ardua ad Arctic. It’s take 13 days to drive from Hoylake, England to the Arctic Circle in our camper van. But having got to this point, it looked like we might fall at the final hurdle. Fortunately, with some help from new friends, we were able to carry on north. This episode is a bit longer, but hopefully you’ll find some comedy in my attempts to get us back on the road. See you tomorrow! ...

We made it to Trondheim, but could this be the end of the road…?! Day 12 of our drive from England to the Arctic sees us take a stroll around the ancient city of Trondheim. The capital of Norway in the Viking Age, it now has a recognisable feel of home. After exploring, we drive many hours north towards the Arctic Circle itself. Until disaster strikes… See you tomorrow…

After Alesund, Harriet and I continued our trip north to the Arctic by seeking out the Atlantic Road. These bridges were made famous by the most recent James Bond film - No Time to Die. Our campervan took the corners more gently than Bond, but we probably enjoyed the views a little more than he did. After this extraordinary road, we drove through Kristiansund, before catching one last ferry on ...

Day 10 - Alesund - North & back again

Day 9 - Bergen - North & back again

Day 8 - Stavanger - North & back again

Day 7 - The Road to Stavanger - North & back again

Day 6 - Oslo - North & back again

Day 5 - Gothenburg & crossing into Norway - North & back again

Day 4 - Helsingborg GK - North & back again

Day 3 - North & back again - Copenhagen & Oresund Bridge

Day 2 - North & back again… The Netherlands to Denmark

Day 1 - England to The Netherlands

Golf Badgers Episode 19 - Bledge and Sam discuss Open preparation - Video

Spirit of St Andrews - The Old Course

Royal Cinque Ports (Deal)

the ground game - Hayling GC

sandhills & solitude - Royal St George's 2021 Open Championship