Can you canoe in a riverboat made for two?

As SAS flight number SK526 took off from Heathrow's Terminal 2 runway headed for Stockholm and an onward flight to Ostersund, just short of the Arctic Circle, we looked at each other and said, "It's too late to turn back now".

We were headed off on another, some might say, hair brained idea. We were to undertake a six day expedition in Canadian style canoes down the Harken River in Sweden living out of the boat and in a tent. Well, in our case under a poncho and a couple of bivvy bags.

Somewhere along the way we would be catching salmon, reindeer, bears and skinning anything that swam, crawled or flew past us for our scran.

Might not be that basic but then again do you remember 'Deliverance'?