Norway - midnight Sun?

[Felters]

Thinking about going to Norway for the 20/21st June to see the midnight sun.

Haven't yet got it planned - but I do know people that did it last year so will be getting ideas from them.

It'll be camping or whatever is the cheapest way of doing it - it looks like being a 4,000 mile round trip. From here (Hampshire) it looks like Dover/Calais/Tunnel? and then Belgium, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Norway to Rognan. Apparently the toll bridges and ferries are not cheap...

http://www.visitnorway.com/uk/Product/?pid=92154

Any bright ideas, tips or even potential fellow travellers are welcome to chip in.

Love and peace
Mike

PS Health Warning: I'm well into middle age, have a beard, an old bike and drink flat warm beer. The good news is I hate folk music.

 

[Grey Beard]

Thinking about going to Norway for the 20/21st June to see the midnight sun.

Haven't yet got it planned - but I do know people that did it last year so will be getting ideas from them.

It'll be camping or whatever is the cheapest way of doing it - it looks like being a 4,000 mile round trip. From here (Hampshire) it looks like Dover/Calais/Tunnel? and then Belgium, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Norway to Rognan. Apparently the toll bridges and ferries are not cheap...

http://www.visitnorway.com/uk/Product/?pid=92154

Any bright ideas, tips or even potential fellow travellers are welcome to chip in.

Love and peace
Mike

PS Health Warning: I'm well into middle age, have a beard, an old bike and drink flat warm beer. The good news is I hate folk music.

If you are biking, you don't pay Norwegian tolls except for one on the Atlantic Road going to Christiansund and one tunnel to Mageroya (which won't affect you, since you are not going to the Nordkapp).

You don't need to go via Sweden. There is a Colorline ferry, which goes twice/day from Hirtshals in Northern Denmark to either Larvik or Christiansand. Christiansand would be my preferred route, unless you want to visit Oslo.

Usual Government Safety & Health regulations apply! Don't speed as the limits are low and fines very expensive if caught by a police laser speed gun trap.

Camping is free if wild (subject to a few common sense limitations). If too wet, Hyttes are the sensible but more expensive option.

Grey Beard