Sorry guys have to count me out.

Opportunity has arisen to go to Germany in June 2009 with 20 members of the fireblade club, and do a tour plus few laps of the Nurburgring. I'm afraid that although the bones are getting older (much) the mind still thinks it belongs to a 20-something and I can't pass up the opportunity to add the 'Ring' to my tick-off list of things to do before I shake off this mortal existence!

Next time maybe? Have a great trip and I look forward to seeing the write up and pictures!

Hmmm. So some of the secondary roads may be unsurfaced?? Also, what's the quality of "local roads" and "cart tracks"?

Basically my idea is to cruise up the country on all the best gravel roads.

Secondary roads are usually paved. Local roads too. Cart tracks: Unpaved. But it's hard to be certain on basis of the map. If you go to my page you'll find link to a webpage where you can look for unpaved roads all over Norway in a digital base. It's in Norwegian but you get the recipe for how to use it on my webpage (scroll down the Travel on a budget page until you find the Gravel Travel section).

I can start looking at it as well to put together a gravel tour for you in Norway, from - say - Oslo to Nordkapp? It will be a lot of mountains but you could do the fjord thing on your way down?

If you want to go on gravel roads it’s easiest to go from Oslo to Røros, then into Sweden and head further north. A friend of mine used 4 days on this route, but it was hard driving and long days (somewhere around 3150km!) There are multiple ways to get to Røros so you can easily spend quite a few days on the first stage,

This route will not include the fjords but if you keep right on your way south you will see them all.

I think mountains/gravel up and fkiords down soound like a plan!

Indu, any help with planning a route would be more than welcome - I've tried that map form your website, previously the map wouldn't let me select road types, and now I can't get to the map at all.

Alibaba - do you have more info about the route your friend took?

Cheers

Chris

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Hi Hans,
Perhaps our intrepid traveller doen't quite know how far Nordkapp is away from Oslo !
To do that distance on gravel really would be for the brave

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Ah, but I believe our friend has been studying the maps? If he's still up to Oslo-Nordkapp, then AliB's suggestion is a very good one. One could do the tour by gravel on - say 7 days one way. That should be plenty, I think.

If that's too much, there are plenty of other options for shorter, fun gravel tours.

well "studying" might be a bit of an exaggeration, more like briefly looking at....

and whilst i know how far it is, it's all a bit irrelevant until you know the surfaces and speeds on the way. while i'm keen to get off the tar, going miles out of my way just to stay on gravel seems a bit pointless. i was kind of thinking of getting onto as many fun gravel roads as possible with a bit of tarmac to link them.

hi all, new here, great place !!!
i'm going also to nordkapp beginning of june :thumbup1:
leaving from The Netherlands up to Sweden and back via Norway
Pls let us know more your plans :mchappy:

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As in Copenhagen to Malmo, the tunnel / bridge affair?


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