This is a report of our recent three week trip to Nordkapp. The plan was to take eight days to get the top via Germany, Denmark, Sweden and Finland... then a more leisurely 2 week ride back down through Norway's western coast.
Here's a bit of background to the trip. We first visited Norway in August 2014, when we rode our Harley to Andalsnes and did the Atlantic Highway, the Trollstigen and Geiranger fjord. Whilst researching this trip we kept coming across references to Nordkapp (somewhere we had never heard of before). The more we found out about the location, the more we wanted to do this ride.
So when we returned from Norway, we decided we would do Nordkapp the following year (2015), but not on the Harley.... we would buy something a little more adventure based. Then in November 2014, Phil had a serious industrial accident which almost severed his left arm. Nordkapp would have to wait.
2015 went by waiting for what was left of the arm to heal and learning to ride with the injury. In 2016 we brought a 2002 1150GS from dcarvoss of this parish, and then in the September rode it to the Hardangerfjord region of Norway....basically to make sure the arm would manage the bike, two up with luggage. There were no problems so the Norkapp trip was on again for 2017.
Thursday evening after work we rode to Ashford, Travel Lodge had KFC for tea, then off to bed, with an early tunnel crossing the following day.
3 by Phil Perks, on Flickr
4 by Phil Perks, on Flickr
Here's a bit of background to the trip. We first visited Norway in August 2014, when we rode our Harley to Andalsnes and did the Atlantic Highway, the Trollstigen and Geiranger fjord. Whilst researching this trip we kept coming across references to Nordkapp (somewhere we had never heard of before). The more we found out about the location, the more we wanted to do this ride.
So when we returned from Norway, we decided we would do Nordkapp the following year (2015), but not on the Harley.... we would buy something a little more adventure based. Then in November 2014, Phil had a serious industrial accident which almost severed his left arm. Nordkapp would have to wait.
2015 went by waiting for what was left of the arm to heal and learning to ride with the injury. In 2016 we brought a 2002 1150GS from dcarvoss of this parish, and then in the September rode it to the Hardangerfjord region of Norway....basically to make sure the arm would manage the bike, two up with luggage. There were no problems so the Norkapp trip was on again for 2017.
Thursday evening after work we rode to Ashford, Travel Lodge had KFC for tea, then off to bed, with an early tunnel crossing the following day.
3 by Phil Perks, on Flickr
4 by Phil Perks, on Flickr