In 1958, the year when Elvis Presley’s Jailhouse Rock climbed the charts and Prime Minister Harold Macmillan showed Brits that they ‘had never had it so good’, 17-year-old Jim Larney travelled to Scandinavia with Hertfordshire’s Eagle Road Club - a cycling club that celebrates its centenary this year. Early one June evening, he met with six other club members at Edmonton, North London to begin the trip by cycling all the way to Newcastle’s ferry port - a distance of 275 miles. Jim was the youngster of the all-male group, and he remembers he was riding a Ron Blackwell eight-gear lightweight road bike that he bought from a shop on Hackney Road. The cyclists headed around the North Circular to the A1, then simply peddled north, travelling all through the night and into the following day, The journey was made more dramatic by witnessing a military plane crash en route - something he didn’t mention to his parents in his postcard home! From Newcastle they sailed for several days by ferry to the Norwegian city of Bergen. Disembarking on Sunday June 15, Jim and his group began their holiday in Western Norway’s national parks, sleeping in hostels at night and active all day, tackling gruelling mountain passes, skimming fjords and clambering up mountains - all in shorts and anoraks. As the most junior club member, Jim wasn’t concerned with the routes and schedules: he simply followed the group leaders and enjoyed Scandinavia’s most stunning scenery in temperatures that climbed gradually climbed from 11C to 20C, sending and collecting the postcards shown below on the way.