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Fcasdo seems to me your doing your tour the wrong way round would it not be better to go Newcastle to Norway -Finland _ ferry to Estonia - Baltic states - Poland - Germany - slovak countries - romania - bulgaria etc back towards italy - austria - swiss - france UK. It would seem then you would save a fortune on repeating countries have less ferry journies and also you would get the better climate while in the north and the cooler climate when down south sept/oct. Just a thought.
But then we'd miss Denmark, also we'll do just the south of France on the second leg of the journey, then Spain and Portugal.
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Yep had not thought of it like that - hope you have a great journey Brad.
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I've just played the route on Viamichelin.com and it came out to be 600 Km (Copenhagem to Oslo)...The best thing is that we can spend a night in Goteburg (about 300Km from Den), so I think we'll leave the ferry option then!

Thanks a lot for that Indu!

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My pleasure. However, if seeing Denmark is your prime concern, I'd go up to Hirtshals and take the 4 hours crossing with Color Line from Hirtshals to Kristiansand, Norway. 2 pax plus bike is some 60-70 GBP, I think. Easy reservation, no need to sleep over, and a nice break in the driving. You could also do some tax free shopping on board (Norway is non-EU, remember).

Check out this site:

http://www.colorline.com/servlets/page?section=4000

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Yep had not thought of it like that - hope you have a great journey Brad.
Hope you didn't get me wrong! I really appreciate every single input here, and have all these long threads on the HD! We'll try to avoid ferries when possible because they're usually quite steep!

Indu - Thanks again!

Will have a proper look on website...

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