Planning a trip Uk to North Cape (Norway) in June

[donciuz]

Hello, there.

So I am planning to travel this June to the most northern place in Europe - North Cape. I have a 1986 Westfalia California 1.6TD. I intend to drive it there
Now i am thinking of the best way to get to Norway, as this will be the "boring" part or the trip. Any sugestions? One plan is to take a ferry to france, then drive to denmark and take a ferry to norway.

Anyone here has any suggestions? usefull tips?
Thank you.

[R0B]

Take lots of money.Everything costs a small fortune in Norway.

Anyone here has any suggestions? usefull tips?

[AdrianC]

Now i am thinking of the best way to get to Norway, as this will be the "boring" part or the trip. Any sugestions? One plan is to take a ferry to france, then drive to denmark and take a ferry to norway.

The only ferry from the UK to Scandi these days is Harwich-Esbjerg (DK). There used to be one to Bergen, but no longer. If you're thinking of just doing a cross-channel boat instead, you might as well drive up to and through Denmark.

This might sound a daft question, but have you looked into how far you're going to have to drive once you're over that side? It's a VERY, VERY long way... And there's not much on the way.

RoB's right about prices, too - two mediocre take-away-styley pizzas and two beers were north of £40 in a small town back in 2007. And DO NOT get nicked speeding. A Norwegian friend was telling us he'd been tugged for about 10mph over a 50mph limit - a choice of a ~€600 fine or 14 days inside.

It's a beautiful country, but there's plenty of other beautiful countries to visit without the expense and control-freakery...

[donciuz]

Well. For starters i have been to Norway once in a small town called Roros. I know that everything is expensive. It is a fantastic country though and i promiced my wife i will take her there. I also found two friends to travel with and share the expences. My camper has four seats and four sleeping places so we should be fine. As for speeding I should be ok as the vans engine is very low on power
I know that it is a very long journey about six thousand miles both ways. Still wondering what would be the best way to reach southern Norway. Then the plan is to ride along the coastline north to the north cape.

[AdrianC]

Still wondering what would be the best way to reach southern Norway.

I'd go Harwich-Esbjerg, and either drive up through DK to the northern tip, then a ferry to the southern tip, or if I wanted to see Copenhagen & Oslo, there's ferries between the two cities.

If you look at http://www.directferries.co.uk" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;, and select "Denmark" as the starting country, it shows you all ferry routes available out of there.

There's two bridges between the Danish islands - the second one, the Storebælt, is absolutely amazing - better than the Öresund over to Sweden.

[hugomonkey]

i live in denmark and regularly take a trip back to the uk to visit family and i gave up on using the ferry from harwich to esbjerg a long time ago as it became so ridiculously expensive so now i drive all the way through germany, holland, belgium and france ,its about 1100 km takes about 12 hours( instead of 18+ hours on the ferry) and is a third of the price of the ferry , i always get the ferry over to the uk from dunkirk it shortens the trip on this side and is really cheap.
there are loads of ferries from the north of denmark to norway and sweden either from hirtshals(google maps shows dunkirk to hirtshals as 757 miles and 11hours 31 mins) or frederikshavn that will take you to oslo, stavanger(your best bet if you want to take the norweigen coastal route) or goteborg depending on what you want to do and see, if your goal is to get to your destination as quickly and easily as possible then i would take the ferry over to goteborg and drive as far north as i could through sweden avoiding al the road tolls in norway and also the cost of living in sweden is probably the cheapest in scandinavia, diesel is way cheaper too.
hope that helps a bit
have a great trip
Regards Jason

[captain Byrne]

Hi,
Good thread here about my trip last year to Norwy. https://club8090.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=94938" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Give me a shout if any questions.
Cheers,
Pete.

[RuneK]

Bring as much food and drinks you dare crossing the Border with, beautiful country, but probably the most expensive one in Europe.

[Pandion]

I am currently in Norway. I do the trip a lot, thou this is the first time in a camper. The cheapest way is via Dunkirk then up to Hirsthal in Denmark and the ferry to Larvik. Driving through Sweden is a close second. I've done the drive to Nordcap a couple of times, once in a camper. The roads actually suit a camper as you can't drive that fast anyway.

Norway is expensive but you can find bargains. I spend two months a year here and it's possible to manage if you don't eat out of buy alcohol ( duty free is your friend...)

Have a good trip

[jed the spread]

We are going this summer too

jed

[Pandion]

Btw if anyone wants any info/suggestions or a hand with anything, let me know I am here until early July and back again in August. I'm currently in the south but will be in mountains in August . I have friends in Bergen who are VW/Audi mechanics and a few other contacts if disaster strikes anyone