Finding lanes abroad

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And something else the brochures don't mention is the pollution. When Viv and I were at Geiranger there were- from memory - 6 or so cruise ships, incl. the QE2 in the harbour and the diesel fug from all the generator plants hung over the town and stunk the place out.

Roger

The shape of the fjord and surrounding mountains and the temperature differences creates subduction that keeps the smog down in the fjord.

Now there is a limit to 2 or 3 ships depending on size and a ban for the oldest most polluting ones. But there still is a cloud hanging in there.
This is why I called them stupid up here, the amount of pollution just from the flight to the ship is more than your car would release driving there but the focus on pulltion problems is still on the cars. If there was the same fee on CO2 emissions on the fuel for planes and ships that there is on cars, that form of vacation would stop pretty fast. But the rich will not get to pay for their pollution, only ordinary people.

It is not becoming a country that gets all its electrical power from clean sources like wind and hydro in my opinion, and there have been warnings that Geiranger will loose its status as a world heritage if they do not do something to it..

It's beginning to sound as if Viv and I went to Norway at the right time. How often in the UK can you drive for 70 miles and not see another car on your side of the road. Now that's eerie!
On one trip we were supposed to drive from Bergan to Hammerfest via the E6, a distance of 1,100 miles. Instead we meandered all over the place and drove 2,500 miles. Even with all the traffic, I would still go back if there was a viable route.

Roger

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Never got to Try the Bergen Newcastle ferry or the Bergen iceland before they closed.
But via Denmark it is still possible but costly.
Still we see a few english cars here in the summer. I live "close" to Geiranger and the Atlantic road but Try to avoid those places in the high season. Gets way too crowded for my liking.

Been around most rypical overlanding routes in the South of Norway though the years now. South West and North still to do. I would avoid the most touristy spots during high season.

Recommend the TET track as in link above, did some of it this august during a severe weather warning, and flooding. that was fun

One quick word of caution regarding using the TET - certainly over in Poland where I live there are numerous sections of the TET which are only passable using a motorcycle. Think byway which suddenly turns into a foot wide track between a wall and Trees and you’ll get the general idea. I don’t know if this is true for other sections of the trail as well just something to bear in mind!