Nordic travel plans August / September 2017

[moulin 87]

Tea Norwegian / UK style, local fishcakes with mushy peas

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I'll never complain about my wife's quick meals ever again... Mushy peas...

 

[jumartoo]

Good luck with the fish things. The ones we bought had the consistency of .... hard to explain .... no can't!!!

Hope yours are better than ours were.

We even threw some away! At Norwegian prices

 

[DavidG58]

Loved ours. Even Bev who doesn't do fish. They were the most expensive they had with highest % fish but really nice

BTW moulin I do the cooking and not ashamed of this one, decent starter for the jarlsberg and crackers later

Edit - with a snack size bounty and snickers while I wait

 

[Riverbankannie]

I'll never complain about my wife's quick meals ever again... Mushy peas...

You cannot have fish cakes without mushy peas. Right choice

 

[moulin 87]

You cannot have fish cakes without mushy peas. Right choice

@DavidG58 I accept my limitations of the culinary attributes of mushy peas.. perhaps the fact they were Harry Ramsden's own made the difference..

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[daveandsan]

@DavidG58 I see your chin is on holiday as well.

 

[DavidG58]

@DavidG58 I see your chin is on holiday as well.

I thought while nobody but Bev could see and comment I would try a Norge beard it highlights how grey the top has gone 5 days in now looking very scruffy may be gone soon

 

[Debs]

I thought while nobody but Bev could see and comment I would try a Norge beard it highlights how grey the top has gone 5 days in now looking very scruffy my be gone soon

Stick it out, Bev might feel like she's got a new man

 

[Just smiffy]

Stick it out, Bev might feel like she's got a new man

Yeh, like the local tramp...

 

[DavidG58]

Yeh, like the local tramp...

Oi, I resemble that remark

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[Debs]

Oi, I resemble that remark

And I clocked the 'informative'

 

[DavidG58]

Morning all forgot to update a couple of oddities from yesterday.

We had been warned that fuel prices change daily, seemingly in line with peak need. On Monday we found high prices which followed this logic but still had half a tank so left it, by yesterday' now needed some and leaving Mo I Rana for what looked to be pretty wild country decided we had to fill up. But still showing 1.4 NK £1.40 / litre had no option and I have said this trip was never going to be cheap so just fill up. It only makes about £12 difference on the whole tank anyway. But the point of my waffle is we only got charged 1.23 NK



I didn't actually check the pump before filling but presume it must have showed the lower amount

While refuelling noticed loads of people topping up washer bottles so many that I wonder if they were giving it away free. A plus side of this was they had a huge open container for empty plastic bottles with other plastic bottles added I was able to offload our plastic recycling

We had to throw our first few days in the general waste which is a real shame but we don't have enough room to carry it all. Norway only has obvious recycling for glass and tins nothing else, I am really amazed and hope they sort all the general rubbish as it arrives as we now mostly do in the UK

As we headed north we drove into masses of road improvements, plus another toll I don't really mind paying for the new roads and tunnels but to pay and then mainly drive on rough roads past roadworks was slightly odd

Moving further north today Bodo then overnighting just up the coast at Kerringoy. I can't do a link on my phone but anybody with a few minutes google it, hope its half as good as it looks

Photos to follow when back on laptop with decent internet

Edit forgot to add it is 6C pouring down but with very rare and occasional blue bits in the sky, we are over 2.000' feet above sea level and we feel it really could turn to snow. Luckily moving back to coast soon

Double edit spelt Kjerringoy wrong if anybody does try to look

 

[jumartoo]

We found the oddities in the fuel prices also, I posted at the time, but the other way round. Pump price NOK11.48 receipt NOK12.48. Don't normally look at the price on receipts but did this time.

Hope your weather improves. Ours is similar but near Bergen, apparently, rain is expected!

 

[DavidG58]

Still in shorts, walked Lola in rain earlier and Bev did say I really should be dresssd more appropriately, she did say she was going to take my shorts off me but I think only meant hide them not what I thought

Now we have moved lower rain has stopped more or less and sky looks a lot brighter

It might only my imagination but I can see a rainbow

 

[DavidG58]

todays destination above

now parked with free wifi at Nord Norge visitor centre, which also has 4 x Tesla fast charging points, there really are loads of Tesla's over here possibly 1:25 or so of all cars on the road it feels like. There must be some incentive on them over here

Although Norwegians do not seem poor, loads of new cars and Carthago MH's all over the place

there are even 2 normal electric car charging points next this and we are more or less in the middle of nowhere, which might be exactly why they are here I guess it is still a long way to anywhere in any direction

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[Scout]

Hi Davd, Bev , Lola just caught up after a few days aay with no net contact. It looks a fantastic trip and you look like yor enjoying it (even ifyou are a bit scruffy ((not bev)) ) lola seems to be looking good

Enoy and keep the pictures coming, any resturantsyet?

 

[DavidG58]

evening all, we have possibly fallen for a great marketing campaign got ferry across about 4:30, think we really upset some locals by taking the space they could all have fitted in, but only a short crossing so half hour wait , but had I realised I would have waited

nice looking area, but spoiled by the weather today at least, found a camp site that had rave reviews and talked about being on the beach, but is more than a mile away and a real dive, reckon they have written their own reviews , we are 'wilding' in a new car park far enough from the sea not to blown to bits, seriously windy with heavy rain every half hour or so

massive aurora ratings for next few nights though so just need clear skies, we are about 20 miles north of Bodo on a small island, will maybe stay here for 2 nights depending on the weather tomorrow, will check out the tourist things promised tomorrow if dry enough to venture out. Hope now this isn't a sign of equally over hyped Lofoten Isles

no photos, too wet and not enough internet anyway

I really thought we had found the perfect spot for a few days rest, but not to be just yet

 

[Jenben]

there really are loads of Tesla's over here possibly 1:25 or so of all cars on the road it feels like. There must be some incentive on them over here

It has changed slightly now I think, but up until very recently electric vehicles had no purchase tax, no road tax and all tolls, bridges and ferries were free. So compared to say a BMW which would have 100% purchase tax they are seen as very affordable.......

 

[DavidG58]

Driven to end of road, a little like a Norwegian version of Key West but far less people and no shops. Pretty though and the sun came out for a few minutes

Have just seen a sea eagle but too quick to photograph

 

[Robert Clark]

Is it getting unnoticeably colder the further you drive north David?

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[DavidG58]

Still in shorts and last night although really strong winds and raining till midnight heating didn't cut in set on 15C

Still on first bottle of gas 12 nights only 4 on hook up and all cooking and kettle on gas

Think must be mid teens today no breeze and pleasant. Tonight is the best chance for aurora must find good spot for tonight will somewhere around Bodo not sure where yet

 

[Robert Clark]

Are you planning to take pics of the aurora?

 

[DavidG58]

Are you planning to take pics of the aurora?

You betcha

Although I am rather suspicious about a lot of the photos we see are long exposures and never seen by eye

Just had an awesome sighting of a sea eagle only 50' away stopped to look / photo it flew off and another swooped down and took the fish it had left got a couple of poor pics but brilliant moment for us will post what we got later

 

[Cal54]

I envy you David. Currently in stationery traffic on the M11 - road closed after an earlier accident!

 

[DavidG58]

we had the amazing sight of eagles close by mentioned above, got this photo with no doubt a white tailed sea eagle that we had been watching, blurred poor photo but confirms sighting

then this soon after, didn't spook but now not sure if my heart just wants it to be another eagle, huge feet and beak, but might just be a buzzard, don't think so though really more likely to be a juvenile sea eagle

any experts out there looking in @CWH @DBK ?? what do you reckon

the sea eagles we saw were much browner than I expected

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[DavidG58]

some of todays scenery, it is bigger than Scotland although similar in so many ways

never seen a herd of Heron before though

 

[DBK]

Both White-tailed (aka Sea) Eagles I think. The second one possibly a second winter (it's almost winter ) juvenile. It looks very like the image in my Collins Bird Guide, the pale yellow base to the bill is exactly like the one in the book.

 

[CWH]

we had the amazing sight of eagles close by mentioned above, got this photo with no doubt a white tailed sea eagle that we had been watching, blurred poor photo but confirms sighting

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then this soon after, didn't spook but now not sure if my heart just wants it to be another eagle, huge feet and beak, but might just be a buzzard, don't think so though really more likely to be a juvenile sea eagle

any experts out there looking in @CWH @DBK ?? what do you reckon

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the sea eagles we saw were much browner than I expected

I'd agree about a juvenile sea eagle - legs make it a sea eagle; darker bill than an adult or even a second-plumage immature; a bit bedraggled so difficult to tell length of wing-tips - if the same length as the tail (which I think it is) then it's a male, if shorter it's a female.

Sorry, just got a bit side-tracked, I'll show you why shortly...

EDIT just seen @DBK 's post & would always give way to superior knowledge

 

[Langtoftlad]

Although I am rather suspicious about a lot of the photos we see are long exposures and never seen by eye

I wouldn't worry David - the human eye is way more light sensitive than a camera, thus long exposures needed to capture anything like what you see.
Good luck

 

[DBK]

EDIT just seen @DBK 's post & would always give way to superior knowledge

No superior knowledge I can assure you - I was just quicker getting to my book.

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