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Continue reading →: Day 59 – to Tollådalen – Saltfjellet Svartisen National Park
Day 59 – to Tollådalen – Saltfjellet Svartisen National Park Another day another National Park. I am becoming predictable. But there are many up this way, and I want to get at least a feeling for as many as possible, as I plan to be back, and spend longer in…
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Continue reading →: Day 58 – to Sjunkhatten National ParkDay 58 – to Sjunkhatten National Park A mild 11C here yesterday early evening, as I stood outside chatting, after most of the day with cloud cover. Good for hiking, not good for northern lights viewing, or for the van solar, but good also for a stray, frail, elderly, starving…
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Continue reading →: Day 57 – at Lakshol
Day 57 – at Lakshol There was just the Dutch van and mine at Lakshol last night. There’s a few houses in the village, but with the exception of a farmer the rest are holiday homes and vacant at the moment. The Dutch, in their spanking new 4 x 4…
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Continue reading →: Day 56 – to Lakshol
Day 56 – to Lakshol Scores of websites, tens of guide books, four different online maps, all that research and I stumbled on this most inspirational of places quite by accident. And it’s certainly one I’ll be back to. It’s at the foot of Håfjelltuva mountain and massif, with several…
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Continue reading →: Day 55 – to Kråfjellet, above Ballangen
Day 55 – to Kråfjellet, above Ballangen Bardufoss is a service town on the E6, the main arterial road north south, situated roughly midway between Nordkjosbotn and Narvik. It has a huge motorhome / caravan sales outlet, as big as I’ve seen. It seems a lot of Norwegians have them.…
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Continue reading →: Day 54 – to Bardufoss
Day 54 – to Bardufoss Alongside the still fjord waters this was another of the great overnight stops. It was only a couple of kilometres across the fjord to the E6 road running north south down the coast, with the sharp sided huge peaks towering above. There must have been…
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Continue reading →: Day 53 – to Balsfjord, Norway
Day 53 – to Balsfjord, Norway It may have been a degree warmer this morning, but with the northerly wind stringbas yesterday it was difficult to tell. Could be the fresh snowline on the hills was a few metres higher. It wasn’t enough to hurry me out of bed, and…
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Continue reading →: Day 52 – at Kilpisjärvi
Day 52 – at Kilpisjärvi The first snow of the season arrived overnight. Though not settling here at 550 metres asl, it is just a hundred metres or so higher. Even though it was forecast it took me a bit by surprise, probably as it is accompanied by a strong…
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Continue reading →: Day 51 – to Kilpisjärvi, FinlandDay 51 – to Kilpisjärvi, Finland The mountain I had planned for today was Halti, Finland’s highest, though it’s peak, at 1365 metres, is actually in Norway. By the border, on the slope of the mountain is a point which is 1324 metres, the highest point in Finland. But, it…
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Continue reading →: Day 50 – to Guolasjávri Lake, Reisa National Park
Day 50 – to Guolasjávri Lake, Reisa National Park The overnight rain was winding down first thing this morning, but it gave me the excuse of reading a book from one of my favourite writers before heading out, Georges Simenon, and a really good stand-alone novel also, called Old Man…
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Alice asked the Cheshire Cat, who was sitting in a tree, ‘What road do I take?’ The cat asked, ‘Where do you want to go?’ ‘I don’t know,’ Alice answered. ‘Then,’ said the cat, ‘it really doesn’t matter, does it?’
Lewis Carroll
