The Route in Detail……

The little red dots are ferry rides, so there are five altogether:

  • Harwich to Hook of Holland – 9 hours overnight, there and back!
  • Hirtsals in northern Denmark to Stavanger in south western Norway: 10 1/2 hours overnight
  • A short four hour ferry ride from Bodo to Moskenes and Reine about halfway up the west coast of Norway
  • The longest ferry trip – just under 30 hours including an overnight – from Helsinki in southern Finland to Travemunde in northern Germany.

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Some of the highlights of the adventure are:

The Norwegian Fjords: Lots of majestic mountain passes, spectacular waterfalls and picturesque fjord villages and a trip on the world’s steepest railway at Flam!

The pic shows the village of Reine where i will be staying in one of those little red huts and the Reinebryggen Peak behind it which i have an ambition to climb!!!

The Trollstigen Mountain Route: A 65 miles stretch of road through west Norweigian nature at its most powerful, with dizzying views of sheer mountainsides, waterfalls, deep fjords and green valleys.

The Arctic Highway: Developed by the Norweigians over many years to give a reliable and driveable land link with the country’s most remote Arctic regions. The road crosses one of Europe’s most remote and least inhabited regions and not only does the road go to within 19 and a half degrees of the North Pole, it also reaches as far east as Istanbul!!! Before the road was built the only reliable way to get to the northern tip of Norway was on a ferry which took several days….

The Flam Railway: A 12 1/2 mile train ride through some of the most dramatic and magnificant Norweigian nature: rivers that cut through deep ravines, waterfalls plunging from the vertiginous cliffs of snow-capped mountain slopes. Nearly 80% of the journey is on a 5.5% gradient and there are 20 twisting tunnels that spiral in and out of the mountain.

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