Although I love to travel I am pretty agnostic about where I go. I have a 'bucket list' but it is modest and mostly reflects the places I can't justify the high cost of visiting on my own dollar. Northern Scandinavia is a case in point; but I now have an opportunity to tick it off my list at somebody else's expense. I am sitting in Oslo Airport waiting for a connecting flight to Bodø to meet an international group of cyclists in order to support them on a 1 week charity ride up to Tromsø, through the region known as Lofoten . The ride is entirely within the Arctic Circle and, judging by Google Street View, the scenery should be off the scale. Sadly I won't be cycling but I will have plenty of opportunity to admire the view from the comfort of my rental van. There are 22 riders, from the UK, Ireland, Canada and Norway, plus myself and four non-cycling WAGS and we will be doing a relatively mo...