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01/05/2007 06:03:07 PM · #26 |
What time of the year are you thinking of going there?
June, July, August and even May/September could be far to bright because of the short nights / no night at all situation.
Winter would be best, or late november, early april.
But take some tyres with studs with you because I heard the Tromso area is one big platter of ice at the moment. At least something to think about.
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01/05/2007 06:34:52 PM · #27 |
Originally posted by Azrifel:
Winter would be best, or late november, early april.
But take some tyres with studs with you because I heard the Tromso area is one big platter of ice at the moment. At least something to think about. |
txs for the info, was thinking early April 2008. Was speaking to another Roadster owner from Iceland the other day and he just uses winter tyres. Getting a decent set of winter tyres would be a good investment on the brc but studded tyres would be a big cost as they can't be used in the UK (I'm pretty sure).
Rims are BRABUS "monoblock VI" alloys
front 17/205/40
rear 17/225/35
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01/05/2007 06:52:08 PM · #28 |
Can I go too? I wanna go!!!!
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01/05/2007 07:15:03 PM · #29 |
Originally posted by idnic:
Can I go too? I wanna go!!!! |
Of course you can come Cindi! my car is full so you'd need to hire one when you arrived.
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01/05/2007 07:34:27 PM · #30 |
Originally posted by talj:
By posting here I was hoping for ideas on roads, places to stay, possible GTG's along the way etc etc. Any information Norwiegians or people that have visited Norway can throw at me will be gratefully received!:o) |
I was in Oslo last year. Here's my summary: Beautiful country, expensive beer. |
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01/06/2007 05:55:38 AM · #31 |
Originally posted by Ecce Signum:
Hey, I have been thinking! |
Always worrying :-P
Originally posted by Ecce Signum:
Remembering we have to get back as well Hammerfest is a 5,000 mile round trip and we will be sightseing. I'm sure you'd still have a great break even if we only made it to Narvik and maybe miss the AB? |
The smile the idea of this trip gave me in hospital is worth more to me than seeing the AB! If you can make it live upto what I was thinking when I was sick I'd be the happiest girl on the planet :o)
Originally posted by Ecce Signum:
August Bank Holiday will be a good test for us (if your recovered from the op)The BritBall Rally is a mere 1,000 miles over 2 and a half days ;) |
Hey the BBR is a test of how long it'll take before you lose your cool! We've spent a couple of days in eachothers company and usually we are ok....an excessive amount of drinking is usually done but that's never been a problem! :o) 2 weeks together....am sure we'll be fine ;o)
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01/06/2007 07:53:28 AM · #32 |
The road(s) from Bergen to Tromsø are fairly convoluted. You effectively have to head due East for about 500 kilometres before you hit 'the road' that runs North. North and then East, actually - South and East of Bergen is Hardangervida, where Roald Amundsen used to take his boys for practice before having a go at the South Pole. The South Pole was OK. More than once they had to turn back from Hardangervida.
I hasten to add that as long as you're not caught in blizzards you'll be enjoying some magnificent scenery.
Everything in Norway is horrendously expensive. It pans out if you earn Norwegian wages etc, but beer's £5 a pint, so...
Hurtigruten seem to tell you everything about themselves other than which boats go where for how much, when and whether or not they carry cars. I think the information's supposed to be there, though. 'Everybody says' it's the thing to do. If you could somehow get yerselves and the liddle roadster up to Tromsø (or as far as you dare), you could then drive Southwards.
Bergen to Kirkenes looks fabulous, but probably takes forever and costs a fortune. (If you stick a pin in Oslo and rotate Norway around it, Kirkenes ends up in the Mediterranean).
I just laboured through 'booking' a one double-cabin with car and three daily meals from Bergen to Bodø (just inside the Arctic circle) - 3 days and eleven thousand Norwegian kroner, or 10,700.
I seem to remember seeing a fair bit of aurora late summer early autumn, around the time of the potato harvest. The ideal might well be to find a time when there's still a couple of hours of daylight.
 terje is the nature (landscape) photographer, so if you don't want to go home without snapping vistas of ice, stone and water then maybe you should nudge him.
Norway.no should get you a cargo of information otherwise, but if you need to run on a shoestring then maybe we'll have to see what we can do. I think the simplest way - if not the prettiest - to take a car to the North of Norway, is to come to Oslo and drive on up. I've lived here for 20 years, but most of my wildlife experience consists of nipping out on the verandah for a BBQ.
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01/06/2007 07:56:43 AM · #33 |
WOW Peter your information is fantastic! Andi is probably the one to get back to you about what you have posted and ask questions etc For me all its done is make me even more excited about our trip!!! :o)
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01/06/2007 01:55:28 PM · #34 |
Thanks for all the info raish, I was actually on the Norway.no site when I was reading your excellent reply. I think Talj and I need to do some more talking to decide exactly what our main goal is. I'm already suffering withdrawal from the 0.2 alchohol limit so might spend longer getting to places (so I get the odd nights drinking lol).
A couple of people on another site have suggest leaving the 17" alloys at home and putting winter tyres on some 15" steelies and maybe chains if we go North of Narvik. I'm glad this is a 2008 break and not this April - soo much to do.
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01/10/2007 06:59:37 AM · #35 |
Can anybody tell me just how cold Norway is in April??
Edit toadd: when I google I am getting about 3 degrees celcius as Aprils average...anyone able to tell me any different? :o)
Message edited by author 2007-01-10 07:03:39.
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01/14/2007 11:26:07 AM · #36 |
Originally posted by talj:
Can anybody tell me just how cold Norway is in April??
Edit toadd: when I google I am getting about 3 degrees celcius as Aprils average...anyone able to tell me any different? :o) |
What I was told about Finland above the Pole Circle was that it could go in any direction. Sometimes it is still freezing a little bit during the day and night and the snow will stay to the end of April, sometimes it is +0 during the day and the snow melts a bit and goes hard during the night or it melts day and night. You never can tell, certainly not with a crazy year like this. Last week I had 0 overcast, +1 with rain, -1 with snow, -7 with a clear sky, -15 slightly overcast, -26 with a clear sky, -8 with snow..... Crazy, even the Finnish were puzzled about it.
-26 clear sky, no wind was the best btw, no joking. Only thing that I was unhappy about was that I lost some skin on my foot when I came from the Sauna to jump in the snow. My wet feet touched a bit of ice and it worked like glue (same idea as licking freezing iron...)
Did not see any Northern Lights the last week. :(
It was overcast most of the time, one evening there was nothing and the evening when there was a little bit of activity I was in a Sauna (a good 80 years old log hut Finnish one) while my travel companions were making a big fire and couldn't see it (heard later there was some from a guide). I am in for some crazy stuff, but even if they warned me I would not have run out wet and naked to fetch my tripod and shoot some pictures at -15. :)
(all temperatures in Celcius)
Edit: Finland has a land climate, which is a bit different from the Norwegian sea climate. So the above will most likely not apply to Norway, altough the variety will be alike probably.
Message edited by author 2007-01-14 11:27:35.
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