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The final leg has come, 382 km to Vardø, the most eastern town in Norway. The first part of the journey, so remote that I have to dig deep into my luggage to find a package of emergency meal. The last part of it, so windy that I'm hardly able to keep more than 10-12 km/h on flat roads. Read more »

The road continues with great mountain scenery around Lyngen, then further to the green city of Alta, before heading into a weather battered no-mans-land, where rein deer is a more common sight than human beings. Read more »

This leg covers maybe the most beautiful part of Norway, from Lofoten and then further to Vesterålen, Andøya and Senja. Fjords, steep mountains popping out of the ocean everywhere, but still remarkable flat and easy for cycling. I had high expectations for this stretch of road, and was not disappointed (except for the headwind). Read more »

Kystriksveien (The Coastal Route) from Namsos to Bodø, also known as Helgelandskysten, contains some of the loveliest scenery on the Norwegian coastline. It is surprisingly few tourists here because most of the cars stick to E6 heading directly to Lofoten and/or Finnmark. They don't know what they are missing out, but for cyclists I hope this stretch of coast will continue to be a hidden gem with few cars. Read more »

I had not chosen an easy start on my NPL, preferring mountains and fjords in west instead of the flat but boring E6 in east. From Stryn it would continue in the same way, a lot of high mountain passes to cross in Møre og Romsdal, but eventually it would be much easier cycling when I joined the normal NPL route from Oppdal to Namsos. Read more »

The lighthouse manager at Lindesnes told me that the good weather would continue for at least one week. That promised good for the first leg on this NPL, crossing some awesome mountains and fjords on the west coast of Norway. Read more »

The starting (or ending) point for the NPL (Norway cape to cape) is Lindesnes. I could have taken a bus/train from Oslo, but I had never seen much of the south coastline before, so why not cycle this part too! Read more »

The main reason for cycling from Stryn to Oslo was to buy a good map of Norway and maybe get some spare parts for the bike. I could have made it easy and taken a bus, instead I chose the hard way, to cycle the 470 km to Oslo. Read more »

After a longer period of travels abroad, I have finally decided to explore my beautiful home country on two wheels. The bicycle trip will last for approx 6 weeks, and be close to 4000 km in lenght. Read more »

Eidskyrkja (1482m), also called Kyrkjefjellet, is a huge mountain that easily can be seen from the road between Stryn and Nordfjordeid. I did it on a beautiful summerday in August.