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Unlike most rich bastids travelling with multiple bike groups, me mostly alone with 1 bike and wild-camp travelling around €€€urope, which is the most expensive continent of the planet Earth. I do about every 3rd or 4th day in a (cheapo) hostel or official campsite where to wash up :thumb

Now i have a possible Norway plan. So, the question is: can i camp wild, if it's no-ones land?

I've heard it's possible everywhere in Scandinavia. True or not?

Cheers, Margus
 
Norway gravel and other small nature-rich roads

Is there any interesting small road going through highest fjords, that's long enough to use it even as some notable part of a trans-Norway (south to north) way?

I know few guys contacted me from Norway some time ago to ask about the same question about Estonia, here' it's possible to do all directions trans-Estonia on fast gravel roads, just few kilometres of boring tar needed. But now it's me who's asking the same thing about Norway :D

Margus :beerjug:
 
Hi Margus!

Yes, you can camp where there are no houses, like in the forest.
You can camp at the same spot for (I believe it is) two days - if the nature when you leave the place is like it was before you came, then it is OK.
Do not make a bonfire in nature; it's forbidden and we hope you are not starting a fire in the woods.
Please do not put toiletpapers under a stone, please put it in a bag and bring all litter to a dustbin at a petrol station.

If I get you right I believe you want to ride from sout to north, you like narrow gravel roads, high mountains and deep fjords.
Some roads is closed for you - net legal as we have animals we do not want to frightend.
But some roads is legal and fun, but I'm not an expert on that subject.
Try theese guys:
http://www.allroad-mc.com/ I'm sorry it's in Norwegian...
''Medlemmer'' = members - pick one and send an e-mail. Anders Dihle at the members list live not far from me, and I know he speaks English.
And sometimes I meet Odd V. Larsen at Tyrigrava, riding a dirty bike.

I hope that helped!
And I hope to meet you when you are coming, but not too deep in the forest as my Scarver and I prefèr hard surface. :beer:
I live near by Oslo.

Cheers! :) Liv.
 
Liv, you're the man! :clap

Just what i wanted to know.

Rubbish after camping: you don't see a smallest thing after we leave. I know the fekkers here in Estonia and elswhere coming with their cars and leave a mess behind while they have shit loads of room in a car to store the rubbish for half a village and drop them to next recycle bin, but they don't and fek the beauty of nature by doing so :spitfire

I'm guessing we don't come to Oslo area. No strict plans yet tho. But was thinking about from Stockholm to start "climbing" north after getting into Norway.

PS: i'm a big fan of Antarctic expeditions, do you know where the Amundsen's museum is in Tromso or is there any other Antarctic-Arctic sightseeing in Tromso city?

Cheers, Margus :beerjug:



Liv said:
Hi Margus!

Yes, you can camp where there are no houses, like in the forest.
You can camp at the same spot for (I believe it is) two days - if the nature when you leave the place is like it was before you came, then it is OK.
Do not make a bonfire in nature; it's forbidden and we hope you are not starting a fire in the woods.
Please do not put toiletpapers under a stone, please put it in a bag and bring all litter to a dustbin at a petrol station.

If I get you right I believe you want to ride from sout to north, you like narrow gravel roads, high mountains and deep fjords.
Some roads is closed for you - net legal as we have animals we do not want to frightend.
But some roads is legal and fun, but I'm not an expert on that subject.
Try theese guys:
http://www.allroad-mc.com/ I'm sorry it's in Norwegian...
''Medlemmer'' = members - pick one and send an e-mail. Anders Dihle at the members list live not far from me, and I know he speaks English.
And sometimes I meet Odd V. Larsen at Tyrigrava, riding a dirty bike.

I hope that helped!
And I hope to meet you when you are coming, but not too deep in the forest as my Scarver and I prefèr hard surface. :beer:
I live near by Oslo.

Cheers! :) Liv.
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Hi Margus!

I guess the-Roald-Amundsen-heaven for you is in Oslo:
http://www.fram.museum.no/en/
There are many museums at a small place, Bygdøy; Kontiki/Heyerdahl, Fram, Gjøa and more; http://www.framheim.com/frammuseet.htm
(The road from the centre of Oslo and out to Bygdøy is narrow, and in good weather it seems like everyone want to drive to the beach at Bygdøy, that means caos on the road. Leave your bike, and take a small boat from Oslo Centre (Rådhuset/Aker Brygge/Pipervika) boat number 91 to Bygdøynes or Dronningen and bring a small package of food and enjoy the tour on the fjord - I guarantee that is nice in good weather! Call 177 or go to www.trafikanten.no and search for boats/ferries = båter/ferger or number 91.)

If you do not go to Oslo, then try Tromsø:
http://www.polarmuseum.no/en/
Tollbodgt.11 is the museum;
http://kart.gulesider.no/kart/index.c?id=c_Z0HFOYPN

Here is some links for you; I'm not sure if they are helping you;
www.perspektivet.no
http://www.destinasjontromso.no/english/index.html
http://www.polarenvironment.no/index.cfm?
http://www.arctic.uit.no/English/Resources/Polarbrochure/institutions-tos.html

At Frammuseet, Bygdøy, Oslo you can walk inside the ship Fram!
I was there many years ago.
I have never been to the museum in Tromsø.

I hope I helped! :beer:
:) Liv.
 
Mack
http://www.mack.no/program-tromsoe-oelfestival-2006.333245-39707.html
(In Norwegian, I'm afraid...)
Mack øl = a brewery in Tromsø. The most northern brewery in the world!
And they have a festival, 16-19 August.

And Robua http://rorbuapub.no/bilder.htm is a famous pub in Tromsø; they have made many programs for TV (''Du skal høre mye..'' is the title) at the pub, where locals are telling stories and hav fun.

''Mackøl og måsegg'' = Mack beer and eggs from the seabird Måse/måke. They keep telling us who are living in the south that is weary good and healthy, but I'm not sure I believe it.
But I'm sure it tastes a lot better then Marmite!

:) Liv.
 
Hi Liv
The links are superb, but have you got anything on Kirkenes, as a boy of 16 I spent a year sailing back and forth to Kirkenes taking Iron ore from Norway to different ports in the UK the trips took 14days to complete.

I sailed two different routes depending upon the weather, the best route being through the Fjords passing under a big bridge at Tromso, the other meant a trip around the North Cape.

Saw the midnight sun in July and August and experienced the Arctic nights during the winter months .

Had a few adventures ashore there as well.

I also called at Narvik a few times but it was nothing like as beautiful as the the North.
 
Dickieboy said:
Hi Liv
The links are superb, but have you got anything on Kirkenes, as a boy of 16 I spent a year sailing back and forth to Kirkenes taking Iron ore from Norway to different ports in the UK the trips took 14days to complete.

I sailed two different routes depending upon the weather, the best route being through the Fjords passing under a big bridge at Tromso, the other meant a trip around the North Cape.

Saw the midnight sun in July and August and experienced the Arctic nights during the winter months .

Had a few adventures ashore there as well.

I also called at Narvik a few times but it was nothing like as beautiful as the the North.
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Hi Dickieboy!

I don't know what you want me to find, so I post different type of links here for you.

The bridge at Tromsø; a large part of Tromsø is on an island, and I don't know how many bridges there was at the time, but Tromsøbrua, from the island to the east part of the town, is the famous one theese days.

Nordkapp / Knivskjellodden is at Magerøya, and I guess you could pass it by boat north or south. Now there is a roadthunnel under the sea from Magerøya to the mainland.

But there was only one way to get from Kirkenes to Magerøya; Vardø, Berlevåg, Gamvik.

Links:
http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.ad...qRug6/erm2EUogEf9GSwrdVtaPkN9kGC9I=#map1-link

http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.ad...Nk90uqxlMqkSmX5EbYMlkn5JUdt8dohOks=#map1-link

http://museumsnett.no/alias/HJEMMESIDE/vadsomuseet/en/?The_Museum:The_Vads%F8_Island

http://www.andersgrotta.no/en/index.htm

http://www.kirkenesinfo.no/hXGXzmwtDWWt.9.idium

http://finnmarkslopet.no/article.jsp?id=963

http://www.varanger.com/region.php?lang=eng&rid=3&id=57

I have seen the Luftskipsmasta, Vadsø, the one Umberto Nobile and ''Norge'' used long time ago; it was not much to look at. But there was rabbits living on the island! They jumped around in the bushes!
Most of Vadsø is at the mainland.

I remember they made a thunnel under the sea out to Vardø, and it felt special when I was under the water... (I don't feel it's special anymore; we have a long thunnel under the fjord near by Oslo; Oslofjordtunnellen.
But Lærdalstunnellen is special - it's not up north, but in the area Voss/Gudvangen/Flåm/Lærdal.)

Cheers!

:) Liv.
 
Just back from three weeks touring (in June) Bergen to Nordkapp and points in- between. 4200 miles of motorcycle joy (apart from the rain!). Fantastic roads, little traffic compared to UK and every turn seemed to reveal another photo opportunity; never taken so many photos whilst on tour.

Roads 7 / 13 to Voss, 13 to Moskog, 60 to Stryn & Hellesynt, all of the 63, 64 from Bud to Kristiansund, E39 to Flakk just west of Trondheim, 715 / 720 / 17 to to Namsos then E6 north to Nordkapp all are fabulous. E6 seems to go on forever, 1600 km from Trondheim to Nordkapp was like all my favourite Scottish roads joined up. 55 from Lom to Sogndal is also pretty special however my favourite route was probably the 63. Some of these altenate between normal A class road width and narrow single track where rock faces, or fjords stop road widening; some care required as you are quite likely to meet a 40 tonner or camper van road on a blind bend. The skid marks on the road were a good guide to the danger areas.

Don't know how much the Norwegians get paid but the prices of fuel, food and accommodation were high. Surprised at fuel prices given that Norway is an oil producing country. Camping was relatively cheap and hytters were good value (by Norway standards) at 250 to 300 NK per night. £10 for a burger & chips in a cafe; this is the only holiday I have lost weight on.

Nordkapp itself was an overpriced anticlimax. 195Nk to get into the Nordkapp visitor site after already paying a 68NK tunnel toll to get there and the same to go south again. E69 road to Nordkapp was pretty nice as the sun was out and I saw basking sharks and reindeer. Watch out for the latter, they have no road sense at all !

Would I go back to Norway; definitely. Fjord land is like nothing else in Europe.
 
Hi Wicker!

You wrote:
'' £10 for a burger & chips in a cafe; this is the only holiday I have lost weight on. ''
But it was a fun way of loosing weight, I guess? ;)

It's good to read you liked it, and perhaps we meet next time! :bounce1
But don't go all the way up; the south west is the best area with many nice places in a small area.

Reindeers? I like them best when they are food or clothes!

:) Liv.
 
Hi!

I was in UK and was not logged in here for some weeks.
Today I saw this
http://www.ukgser.com/forums/showthread.php?t=77649
and saw you got some good info about Nordkapp, roads, diesel and stuff.

To put some of it in a few words:
Norway is a loooong country!
Many things are expensive, but petrol is about the same as in UK.
Norkapp is wery expensive, and if the weather is not good it might be a bad idèa to go up there. (Fog?)
The fun part in Norway is the narrow roads and the area south of Trondheim and west. Far east in the south is boring. Sweden is even more boring (sorry Swedes!), and far east in the north, Finnmark, is even more boring then Sweden - if you don't love wind and wind and a flat landskape...

At the ferry going from Newcastle to Norway Knut and I met two blokes I'm sure had some fun for the last 8 days:
They had two motorbikes, a tent, a map, and had no idèa where to go in Norway. I told them to ride to Lysebotten (hairpinroad the last part!), Haukeligrend, Odda, Voss, Gudvangen (do not miss the hairpins in Stalheim!), Lærdalstunnelen, Øvre Årdal, Turtagrø/Fortun, and then look at the weather forecast and choose directions from that. And camp in the forest if it seems like it's not a farmers home, or at campsites.
That is the way to have fun in Norway!

:) Liv.
 
Webcams - and a weather station.

This http://www.lysefjordcam.com/?side=map&lang=en is a good one! :thumb
Klick at one of the 9 webcams and see Lysefjorden - not far from Stavanger and Lysebotn.
For each webcam you get a new infobox, and each number at the bottom of each webcam there is a picture showing the area.
There is a movie too.

There are a link to a weather station, and to webcams all over this Globe we are living at!

Sometimes, like today, it gets windy out there.

Enjoy!
:) Liv.
 
We have some old fortress in Norway, and this is Oscarsborg.
(The site are in Norwegian... :eek: )
http://www.nasjonalefestningsverk.no/oscarsborg/index_html
When the Germans went out for a tour with the ship Blucher, we didn't believe it was for fun, so one the cannons at Oscarsborg sank it.
Shortly after that the roal family moved to England for some years - there was a war going on.

The ship are still at the bottom of the fjord.

Years went by and now we are friends! We even buy motorbikes from the Germans, and they buy bumpers for some of their cars from Norway!

Oscarsborg are not a military fortress like it was; now we can spend a night there, if we like!
...and don't you think there are ghosts..? :eek:

Oscarsborg are less the one hours riding on nice roads south of Oslo, close to Drøbak. ...and you need a boat.. there are ferries from Sætre (Hurum), Drøbak and Oslo in the summer.

Oh, and there is a shop in Drøbak selling Christmasthingies 12 months a year! There is a sign on the road showing Santa!

:) Liv.
 

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