Day 7. I’ve Arrived.

Start point. Vadheim, 100km north of Bergen.

Finish point, Kristiansand. Between Bergen and Trondheim.

Distance. 230 Miles.

Total. 1970 Miles.

One of the reasons I wanted to do this trip was the inspiration from Heinrich Peter Kostka, aka “Buzz”, who posted some pics on Facebook of his trip up to Norway to work, they were just stunning, and now that I’ve had the chance to see some of this amazing country its the best decision I could have made.

The one Fatal flaw I made in planning the trip was thinking it would just be a road trip and that was all, how wrong could I be. I eventually planned to get all the way to NordKapp at the very top of Norway and return through Finland etc, you probably gathered from my earlier posts that it was worrying me that I wouldn’t have time to do it, wellI now know there isn’t a cat in hells chance of doing it in my time frame.

This country is just so huge, everything is BIG, the Fjords just keep getting bigger and bigger, the mountains have got themselves lost in the clouds and the distances you have to travel to cover any ground are unreal. I’ve already done 500 Miles more than Google predicted. And so it is with a bit of regret I’m giving up on that mission and instead going to head east and pick up the planned return leg of the journey somewhere in Finland. This will give me a more relaxing drive and time to take in the sights, especially in the Baltic States

On a brighter note the drive today was great, the E39 is Norways main west coast route from Kristiansand to Trondheim and is under constant improvement, they plan to do away with all the ferry crossings to speed up the flow of traffic, this will call for some massive building projects over and under the Fjords. As it is I used 3 ferries on todays little 230 Mile jaunt, nothing especially exciting happened and it was an easy run, the roads were quiet considering it’s a Saturday but it was still a full days drive, with all the waiting for the ferries etc..

Bugger, missed this one by a whisker, another 45 minute wait.

I continued to pull over at odd times to get a few pics to post her so I hope you enjoy them.

The main destination I had in mind for the trip was the Atlantic Road just south of Kristiansund, not to be confused with Kristiansand which is on the southern Norway coast famous for the Kanonmusuem I visited earlier in the week. The Storseisundet Bridge is the highlight in a series of bridges that make up this stretch of the Atlantic Road that link the small islands together. This marvel of engineering is featured in a lot of motoring adverts, namely Volvo Truck, and its the bizarre shape that makes it look, from some angles, to be an impossibly severe hump back of a bridge.