PPR-53 17.05
Start: 06:20 Finish: 14:08
Total km., for day: 238,4
Camped at: N62°16’53” E9°30’54”.
Yesterday was grand, walked morning and afternoon, did wonders for my long suffering back. Shame I can't find a Troll lady to massage my bum, it lost all feeling weeks ago, sure I must have some callus on it.
Parked up in front of Rema, the Supermarket in Tynset as I’ve run out of food and they also have a good wifi connection. Started updating the Blog while waiting for them to open. Was finished with the blog at about 9:15 and they were still closed and should have been open at 8:00. This stirred something way back in my “pea” and I ran a quick check on the web. Guess what, its Constitution Day and everything is closed. Do my weight some good I suppose, demolished the rest of my grub yesterday hoping to stock up today. That rather obviously ain’t gonna happen.
Decided to check out the Musk Ox location on my way out of here, this was a delusion of course no doubt brought on by the thought of no food until the morrow. Just have to hope my belly doesn't keep me awake.
One advantage of it being a holiday turned out to be the fact that everywhere I went the folks were turned out in their full National Costume. Very impressive!
Camp for the night is great as well, all by myself with a view over the Fjell. On the way up saw a Fox ambling across the road.
PPR-54 18.05
Start: 06:40 Finish: 16:45
Total km., for day: 258,7
Camped at: N61°05’05” E10°20’32”. Altitude 510m
Another day that proved that there is great deal of hidden Norway still to be discovered.
Woke with it raining and the cloud ceiling almost touchable. Quick check of the Musk Ox location, you never know, then turned around and headed down off the Fjell into Dombås and towards Otta. All of this on the E6 as far as a place going by the name Nord-Sel where I managed to get off of it and stayed off until a town called Vinstra where I filled up, still without a clue as to where the day was going to take me.
From there onto the 255 down to Forset and it was absolutely brilliant. I was literally in the clouds for almost all of the time but what I did see in the gaps will definitely bring me back next year. It climbs up over a 1,000 meters but does not land on a plateau as is usually the case. The road follows along the side of the mountain and is truly awe inspiring. How the folks manage to farm on terrain like this beats me. About halfway along the stretch it starts down again, steep in places and past a dammed up lake, still frozen solid and on down into the valley.
It runs off into a pretty large river and it was well and truly in full spate, what with the thaw up high and the torrential rain all day. It had burst its banks in a lot of places and on a couple of occasions was encroaching on the road. Quite alarming to be honest. Helped me make up my mind as to where I would be seeking a stop over anyway. Not near water and down low.
From Forset I had thought of going up over the plateau to Fagernes. No go, closed still lost under the snow. So I snaked around on the backroads onto what I had decided would be my route tomorrow.
Found a place to stop, must have an incredible view. Find out in the morning if the clouds lift and the rain stops. At least at 520 meters above sea level I should be safe from all of the wet stuff other than that streaming down endlessly from above.
Having looked over the map decided to make a big loop out in a westerly direction and then loop back east onto the Horten-Moss Ferry below Oslo and out via my standard route
PPR-55 19.05
Start: 06:00 Finish: 16:20
Total km., for day: 292,6
Camped at: N60°18’54” E9°12’34”, Altitude 700 m.
Logged N60°51’22” E9°11’12” as a campsite for next year. At least it stopped raining overnight and I had a quiet night. Down to Dokka onto the 251 to Fagernes, the 51 across to Gol then down the 7 until I could connect with the 287. From there up and over again, stopped off finally just before Eggedal which is where I am now. Supposed to rain for the next two days, we shall see!
PPR-56 20.05
Start: 08:00 Finish: 22:55
Total km., for day: 968,5
Camped at: N54°56’56” E11°59’11”.
Man oh Man No. 1 Sons fiftieth birthday today, wished him well then put it out of my mind, reminds me of how bloody ancient I’m getting. He’s on his penultimate day of the West Highland Way and having a great time. Well done mate.
In the middle of all my driving around this morning I suddenly realised I was revisiting all of the places that have been to many times before and find really pretty uninspiring after what has gone before. Reason, trying to kill time until I have my appointment to get the van problems fixed in Schwerin on the 31.05. Stupid bloody idea, bored stiff and gobbling up litres of what must be the most expensive fuel in Europe so decision made. As can be seen from the distance traveled today and the time it took. 13 hours 23 minutes driving time. Thank goodness for cruise control.
Crossed the boarder into Sweden at 17:23, last wild life to send me on my way was a little deer which popped up at the banks of the lake I had stopped at for a quick ten minute driving break. Lovely creature.
Back road out of Norway to Dingle in Sweden on route 22 to pick up the E6 and thats it. Crossed into Denmark at 21:50 and am camped up at the bridge again.
PPR-57 21.05
Start: 06:15 Finish: 16:56
Total km., for day: 286,7
Camped at: N53°39'38.46" E11°29’48.47”.
Straight through to Leezen near Schwerin in the hope that the guys will fix the van on the fly tomorrow.
Went first to an official camp site at a place called Seehof that we have used before and spent about an hour under the shower scrubbing all the accumulated muck off myself. Felt good I have to confess. Into Schwerin for some grub and stretch the legs then an early night.
PPR-58 22.05
Start: 05:30 Finish: 16:56
Total km., for day: 532,5
The Campmobil guys didn't bat an eyelid, they are used to me just appearing out of the blue and within an hour all fixed, part under guarantee and on my way. Drive to Düsseldorf as always uneventful and boring.
Tacho reading at home was 73,604 kilometres so the round trip was 14,113 kilometres all in.
At the moment I'm plotting all of the overnight coordinates that are to be found above. Correcting those where my TomTom decided I was parked in the sea or the middle of a road. Hoping to added them to this last collection as a link into Google Earth so for interested folks my course can be plotted. Using the PPR number and date as the references
Right I've tried various alternatives and can't be as slick as I would have liked. What you have to do if you would like to see a plot of my overnight stops is download the hic_norway_2017.kmz file that is shown under this text and open it in Google Earth. Should work, has for me! In doing this I checked each one in Google Earth and where necessary corrected the TomTom ones I had been using in the text and recorded from that device each evening. Now you should be able to see fairly accurately where I was. In some I was parked in the middle of a road, out to sea or in the middle of impenetrable forest, with a vehicle that is.
Start: 06:20 Finish: 14:08
Total km., for day: 238,4
Camped at: N62°16’53” E9°30’54”.
Yesterday was grand, walked morning and afternoon, did wonders for my long suffering back. Shame I can't find a Troll lady to massage my bum, it lost all feeling weeks ago, sure I must have some callus on it.
Parked up in front of Rema, the Supermarket in Tynset as I’ve run out of food and they also have a good wifi connection. Started updating the Blog while waiting for them to open. Was finished with the blog at about 9:15 and they were still closed and should have been open at 8:00. This stirred something way back in my “pea” and I ran a quick check on the web. Guess what, its Constitution Day and everything is closed. Do my weight some good I suppose, demolished the rest of my grub yesterday hoping to stock up today. That rather obviously ain’t gonna happen.
Decided to check out the Musk Ox location on my way out of here, this was a delusion of course no doubt brought on by the thought of no food until the morrow. Just have to hope my belly doesn't keep me awake.
One advantage of it being a holiday turned out to be the fact that everywhere I went the folks were turned out in their full National Costume. Very impressive!
Camp for the night is great as well, all by myself with a view over the Fjell. On the way up saw a Fox ambling across the road.
PPR-54 18.05
Start: 06:40 Finish: 16:45
Total km., for day: 258,7
Camped at: N61°05’05” E10°20’32”. Altitude 510m
Another day that proved that there is great deal of hidden Norway still to be discovered.
Woke with it raining and the cloud ceiling almost touchable. Quick check of the Musk Ox location, you never know, then turned around and headed down off the Fjell into Dombås and towards Otta. All of this on the E6 as far as a place going by the name Nord-Sel where I managed to get off of it and stayed off until a town called Vinstra where I filled up, still without a clue as to where the day was going to take me.
From there onto the 255 down to Forset and it was absolutely brilliant. I was literally in the clouds for almost all of the time but what I did see in the gaps will definitely bring me back next year. It climbs up over a 1,000 meters but does not land on a plateau as is usually the case. The road follows along the side of the mountain and is truly awe inspiring. How the folks manage to farm on terrain like this beats me. About halfway along the stretch it starts down again, steep in places and past a dammed up lake, still frozen solid and on down into the valley.
It runs off into a pretty large river and it was well and truly in full spate, what with the thaw up high and the torrential rain all day. It had burst its banks in a lot of places and on a couple of occasions was encroaching on the road. Quite alarming to be honest. Helped me make up my mind as to where I would be seeking a stop over anyway. Not near water and down low.
From Forset I had thought of going up over the plateau to Fagernes. No go, closed still lost under the snow. So I snaked around on the backroads onto what I had decided would be my route tomorrow.
Found a place to stop, must have an incredible view. Find out in the morning if the clouds lift and the rain stops. At least at 520 meters above sea level I should be safe from all of the wet stuff other than that streaming down endlessly from above.
Having looked over the map decided to make a big loop out in a westerly direction and then loop back east onto the Horten-Moss Ferry below Oslo and out via my standard route
PPR-55 19.05
Start: 06:00 Finish: 16:20
Total km., for day: 292,6
Camped at: N60°18’54” E9°12’34”, Altitude 700 m.
Logged N60°51’22” E9°11’12” as a campsite for next year. At least it stopped raining overnight and I had a quiet night. Down to Dokka onto the 251 to Fagernes, the 51 across to Gol then down the 7 until I could connect with the 287. From there up and over again, stopped off finally just before Eggedal which is where I am now. Supposed to rain for the next two days, we shall see!
PPR-56 20.05
Start: 08:00 Finish: 22:55
Total km., for day: 968,5
Camped at: N54°56’56” E11°59’11”.
Man oh Man No. 1 Sons fiftieth birthday today, wished him well then put it out of my mind, reminds me of how bloody ancient I’m getting. He’s on his penultimate day of the West Highland Way and having a great time. Well done mate.
In the middle of all my driving around this morning I suddenly realised I was revisiting all of the places that have been to many times before and find really pretty uninspiring after what has gone before. Reason, trying to kill time until I have my appointment to get the van problems fixed in Schwerin on the 31.05. Stupid bloody idea, bored stiff and gobbling up litres of what must be the most expensive fuel in Europe so decision made. As can be seen from the distance traveled today and the time it took. 13 hours 23 minutes driving time. Thank goodness for cruise control.
Crossed the boarder into Sweden at 17:23, last wild life to send me on my way was a little deer which popped up at the banks of the lake I had stopped at for a quick ten minute driving break. Lovely creature.
Back road out of Norway to Dingle in Sweden on route 22 to pick up the E6 and thats it. Crossed into Denmark at 21:50 and am camped up at the bridge again.
PPR-57 21.05
Start: 06:15 Finish: 16:56
Total km., for day: 286,7
Camped at: N53°39'38.46" E11°29’48.47”.
Straight through to Leezen near Schwerin in the hope that the guys will fix the van on the fly tomorrow.
Went first to an official camp site at a place called Seehof that we have used before and spent about an hour under the shower scrubbing all the accumulated muck off myself. Felt good I have to confess. Into Schwerin for some grub and stretch the legs then an early night.
PPR-58 22.05
Start: 05:30 Finish: 16:56
Total km., for day: 532,5
The Campmobil guys didn't bat an eyelid, they are used to me just appearing out of the blue and within an hour all fixed, part under guarantee and on my way. Drive to Düsseldorf as always uneventful and boring.
Tacho reading at home was 73,604 kilometres so the round trip was 14,113 kilometres all in.
At the moment I'm plotting all of the overnight coordinates that are to be found above. Correcting those where my TomTom decided I was parked in the sea or the middle of a road. Hoping to added them to this last collection as a link into Google Earth so for interested folks my course can be plotted. Using the PPR number and date as the references
Right I've tried various alternatives and can't be as slick as I would have liked. What you have to do if you would like to see a plot of my overnight stops is download the hic_norway_2017.kmz file that is shown under this text and open it in Google Earth. Should work, has for me! In doing this I checked each one in Google Earth and where necessary corrected the TomTom ones I had been using in the text and recorded from that device each evening. Now you should be able to see fairly accurately where I was. In some I was parked in the middle of a road, out to sea or in the middle of impenetrable forest, with a vehicle that is.
| hic_norway_2017.kmz |
In PPR-46 10.05 I mentioned a Stavkirke and thought in case it is of interest to anyone I'd include this link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stave_church
Finally in closing this out I have found a myriad number of mistakes, spelling being the least. Thought about correcting them but some are so convoluted I thought, no leave them be, folks can either puzzle away, laugh or whatever!
Maybe I'll run a Blog for the planned Romania Trip later this year. If it comes about.
Thats it, a truly wonderful and revitalising trip and I enjoyed every second of it. I hope it has been of some interest to folks who have bother to keep up with the trip and that one or the other has found something of interest in it. Even if its only to decide that there is no way you intend to finish up like this crazy old fart.
Enjoy life folks it can come to an abrupt end. Fact!!!
Finally in closing this out I have found a myriad number of mistakes, spelling being the least. Thought about correcting them but some are so convoluted I thought, no leave them be, folks can either puzzle away, laugh or whatever!
Maybe I'll run a Blog for the planned Romania Trip later this year. If it comes about.
Thats it, a truly wonderful and revitalising trip and I enjoyed every second of it. I hope it has been of some interest to folks who have bother to keep up with the trip and that one or the other has found something of interest in it. Even if its only to decide that there is no way you intend to finish up like this crazy old fart.
Enjoy life folks it can come to an abrupt end. Fact!!!
