The North Cape - An itch that needs to be scratched...

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Thirty years ago I was in Evoz Ramet visiting some Belgium friends of mine who had just come back from a trip to the North Cape. We were sat around the kitchen table looking at their photographs, they really looked amazing and I said "I'm going to go there" and here we are thirty years later and I still haven't quite made it. I say "haven't quite" because Blondie and I together with bike are booked on the Harwich Esbjerg ferry next friday, I booked the ferry in January, it didn't really seem real then but it does now... Today I've whacked a new back tyre on the bike, cleaned it and it's serviced so ready to go. I don't much like planned trips so the extent of my planning has been the return ferry journey, a ferry from Stavanger to Hirtshals, we're heading north through Sweden and south through Norway with the northern leg being a sprint and the southern leg being a saunter.

Am I excited? Just a bit :)

I plan to write the trip up but who knows...

That's all.

Dave
 
You better write the fecker-up because it's one of my itches too, but doubt it'll get scratched.

:beerjug:
 
Ride report please! Very interested to know how it goes..

Have a great trip.. :thumb
 
Mr K said:
You better write the fecker-up because it's one of my itches too, but doubt it'll get scratched.

:beerjug:
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Now now mr K things might be a bit tough at the mo
BUT none o that negative talk in here me boyo:rob
There is a lad just been and has posted a rr on the adventure bike rider forum
he,s been oop n back in not an a great deal of time and recons it,s cost him about 1 grand total
I AM GOING TO GO NEXT YEAR
 
I was close to going a few years ago but had to cancel....:(

Look forward to your posting up here....enjoy..:thumb
 
Scratched that itch twice in 03 and 07 and i'm getting itchy again:blast

Have a good one and watch those Norweigian speed limits

Oh and enjoy all those Pylsur:barf

FP.
 
Farmer Palmer said:
Have a good one and watch those Norweigian speed limits
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The speed limits in Norway spoilt the trip for me last time and the prices at North Cape were eye watering enough for me not to ride on to it. That said, enjoy your trip and next time you have the time and money, tour the Faroes and Iceland instead :thumb
 
Devon said:
The speed limits in Norway spoilt the trip for me last time and the prices at North Cape were eye watering enough for me not to ride on to it. That said, enjoy your trip and next time you have the time and money, tour the Faroes and Iceland instead :thumb
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If you've got time go to Grense Jacobselve east of Kirkenes at the Russian border then you'll have ridden all of 'Norways Blood Road' the 'Arctic Highway' and if you haven't had enough you can ride all the way back down the E6 to see what it looks like going the other way. You're so far north up there that you can just kick the bike into neutral and it'll roll all the way back down south again!

What can I say Faroes are amazing.........Iceland is amazing! I was watching the fireworks over the icebergs at Jokulsarlon Glacier Lagoon lastnight on the Mila webcam and had an Icelandic friend visit our farm a couple of weeks ago!

FP.
 
Instead of the obvious, why not try the Lofoten Islands instead..?

Nordkapp has become a tourist car park, expensive and full of coaches.
 
David Nimrod said:
Instead of the obvious, why not try the Lofoten Islands instead..?

Nordkapp has become a tourist car park, expensive and full of coaches.
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It's the North Cape that I've been aiming for for the last thirty years so anything south of that just won't do. From what I've read I understand that the scenery is more impressive further south hence the "sprint north saunter south" bias to the trip, the Lofoten Islands look interesting so we may well find ourselves having a nosey on our route south. We'll see what develops :)

Dave
 
Well we're there, the tunnel no longer has a toll and The North Cape was free entry.

Off to chuck the tent up and enjoy a refreshingly expensive Norwegian beer or two.

Dave & Blondie
 
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