-non cycling.
Going Easter time.
Decided on Oslo for a couple of nights then the train to Bergen. After that, do we go North and loop round back to Oslo, or go South and go back to Oslo that way. Not enough time for everything, so what do you think is best?
Cheers
Either way will be scenically gorgeous, I have only spent some time around Tromso and Lofoten Islands and a few weekends in Oslo.
Second mortgage might be useful 😉
Tip?
Save up.
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We loved Bergen!
Tip; we found a bar that does food at almost British restaurant prices - Pingvinen http://www.pingvinen.no/
Big flask, plenty of butties.
Norway is a fantastic country.
remortgage - you'll need it
Take any booze with you, or buy it in duty free. Alcohol is incredibly expensive and everything else is roughly x2 or x3 what you would pay in UK. That said, its a beautiful friendly clean efficient country...enjoy
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Pre-planned itineraries out from Oslo to Bergen, then round trips from Bergen. Amazing place, was lucky enough to go to Bergen for work in the 90s, on expenses. If you're in Bergen, the funicular is good for the view from the top. Brown cheese is worth trying, I love it.
+1 on second mortgage or saving the pennies.
Even not drinking it's expensive! The figure above of everything costing 2-3x (more like 3 IME) is right. And that's _everything_.
Yep, we didn't get much change out of £100 for a two course meal and one drink ea for 2 of us!!
First group holiday I've ever been on where virtually no one drunk more than 2 pints every night and no one went into rounds!!
It was about 8 years ago when I last went (to Bergen) and a take-out pizza and a coke was £25!
We found the wooden chalets on the camp sites the best option. They are heated and the kitchen facilities on the sites are generally very good. We found supermarket prices not so bad, including alcohol, so self-catering can make it relatively affordable to visit.
explore sognefjord and hardangerfjord
beautiful.
Take walking boots
stay here: http://utnehotel.no/english/
Do not go to Kirkenes. I was there earlier this week & the only highlights were the king crab (yummy) & my colleague catching a Russian purse thief on the plane back to Oslo.
Bergen is great as is Oslo. Not super expensive apart from the alcohol. There is always duty free shop at each airport when you disembark. The Norwegians go there like a shot 🙂
Been a few times now, but always driving and camping. Never found it to be that expensive. Fuel costs only a penny or 2 different to UK. Campsites and chalets actually cheaper than UK, supermarket food can be got as cheaply as the UK if you are careful. Just don't buy alcohol or eat out and it is not bad at all:-)
I guess for many that is part of a holiday, but I can eat out or get drunk anywhere, including back home. Norway for me is all about scenery and the Great Outdoors, great feats of engineering, hiking, waterfalls, glaciers, fjords lack of people, huge vistas, etc. All of those are free.
There is always duty free shop at each airport when you disembark. The Norwegians go there like a shot
Apart from the ones that got so mullered on the trip to the UK that they don't actually know what dimension they exist in anymore...
In Norway: A small triangle of lasagne with a few token lettuce leaves and a coke.
£45
Each.
My wife was muttering about taking the camper to Norway, as I am lazy whats quickest or easiest way to get a van over there?
Dover-Dunkerque, drive across Belgium & Germany, then options are
Ferry, Kiel - Oslo
Drive to Copenhagen and ferry/bridge to Sweden and drive north to Norway
Drive to northern tip of Denmark and ferry across to Noway from there.
Lots of driving whichever route. Sadly there is no longer a direct ferry to Norway and the last direct ferry to Denmark has also just stopped. There "may" be a new service to Scandinavia next year but that is still up in the air and subject to sufficient perceived demand
http://driveeuropenews.com/2014/05/01/jaguar-mille/
