Under and Over

Here I am, fresh from my Route 66 trip with my good lady and all ready to carry on with the Scandinavia trip.

In truth, there wasn't too much left to do, as I'd already got hotels and fuels stops identified and booked. I was waiting for the Eurotunnel dates for July to come available, which they did at the weekend. So, armed with Grizzly's credit card details, I bought a new car!  Joking, of course. I have bought a new car but I digress.

There were three pieces of this jigsaw to fit together, the travel under the English Channel, the ferry over the North Sea between Denmark and Norway and finally, the midpoint stopover for Grizzly, on his way to and from Chatham. Like last year, he's going to stay in the Travel Lodge at the Leigh Delamere service area on the M4. Like last year, their website refused to take an Irish credit card number, so I've paid that and Grizzly will give me some euros when he comes over.

I have booked us on the 8:20 Eurotunnel departure from Folkestone to Calais, so we won't have to get up at the crack of dawn. With the time difference, we effectively arrive in France around 10:00. With a lunch, coffee and fuel stops, I calculate we'll arrive at our overnight stop in Senden, Germany, around 17:00. It's 470km or 290 miles.

We have another overnight stop en route to the ferry at Hirtshals on Day 2 and about a hundred miles from there, to the ferry terminal, on Day 3. The fast ferry, is at 17:00 and will get us into Kristiansand, Norway, at 19:15. Our Norwegian adventure will begin on Day 4, Wednesday 6th July.

I plan to revisit the route and have another look for things to stop and look at/do on the journey but to be honest, I think the natural beauty of the place will be the main highlight.

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That's all for now.