Martin Compston's Norwegian Fling: release date, locations, trailer and everything we know

Phil: "To be honest with you, I didn't really know a lot. Norway is one of our closest neighbours to Scotland, and yet we knew little about it, so when Norway came up on the agenda, we jumped at the chance. We knew it would be in some ways similar to Scotland, but ultimately a brand-new culture and full of adventure."

Martin: "I think probably Vikings, Erling Haaland and the massive oil fund were my main takeaways! When the team first said Norway, it came a bit out of left field, but in some ways, it's kind of shameful that it's right there and I'd never been before. It's an amazing country, just slap-you-in-the-face beautiful from head to toe. We had a blast!"

Phil: "I don't think either of us realised how big it was — luckily for me, I didn't have to do any of the driving, that was left to poor old Martin!"

Martin: "We could have renamed the show 'Ferries And Tunnels'! It's mad, you're either on a boat or you're underground. It's so well-connected, but it's just the vastness of the place. Tunnels with roundabouts in them blew my mind!"

Phil: "Yeah — 15-mile-long tunnels, as well!"

Martin: "You'd go into these tunnels and there would be roundabouts to go left and right, and there were disco lights and stuff! It was wild."

Phil: "That's when we started to have raves in the car, isn't it? When we go through the tunnel, we're like 'right, crank up the tunes, let's go!'"

Phil: "For me, it was the communities and the people. The people can be slightly eccentric, but they are so loving and warm, and ultimately the Norwegians are very switched-on people. They know how to get the best out of their own talent, they nourish and develop it, and we got a real insight into their lives, culture and communities."

Martin: "The 24-hour daylight thing [in the Arctic Circle] is mad. You hear about it, but to actually experience it is quite disconcerting at first. You genuinely lose track of time! It has massive advantages, like you get up and get on with things because it's broad daylight, but you can go quite delirious when you're tired and you can't sleep because it's daylight! They're all really invested in their people and their infrastructure too. Everywhere you go, it's electric cars. They're ahead of the game where the rest of the world is just trying to catch up to this idea of green energy."

Martin: "It's difficult! Phil's bilingual, and I always try to pick up little bits, because I think you should when you go places, whether it be 'takk' for 'thank you' and all that kind of thing. I just kept saying 'velkommen!' — that was my extent.

Phil: "Yeah, the language is really different — I speak Gaelic, but there is kind of a similar thing with Celtic nations and Norwegian, it's the same lilt, they kind of sing as they speak. Some of these places we were driving into, trying to pronounce them was like, 'argh!'.

Martin: "Yeah, that was probably the hardest bit of the voiceover — naming places!"

Phil: "I was saying one thing and he was saying another!"

Phil: "I mean, we'd love to, but I think we'd like to pick somewhere a bit more hot next time! Scotland's cold all year round, Norway's got its moments, so hopefully we can get somewhere a bit warmer and get the shorts and t-shirts on! It'd be good to do something like Australia or Canada, we'd love to take it a little bit more international."

Martin: "It's a big old world out there, but we'd love to keep that tone — when we got to Bergen we had the pipe band, keeping those little Scottish connections, whether it be somewhere like Canada or New Zealand or something. But I'd say for sure, even if we aren't doing it for TV, this is going to be something that me and Phil are going to do for the rest of our lives. It's been a blast, and we'll keep it going!"