We stopped for a night in Øse camping where we had the warmest welcome and the best view from our bed on the trip so far (I think!) before heading further up the E6.
We climbed higher and higher and really thought we must be at a huge altitude looking at the scenery and amount of hills we’d climbed, but it turned out we were only at 104 M (1300ft). It must have been the fact we were now so far north that made it seem so remote. As you can see the cyclist ( yes people cycle this!) thought so too!
With another stop at Alta river camping we were finally ready to make the journey to the top of Europe.
Heading off early we had the most beautiful sunny day with bright blue skies, we were hopeful. Many people have, planned for months, saved up, driven this far and had thick fog, have seen nothing of the stunning landscape and although made it to NordKapp ( The North Cape) they didn’t see it..
(This sign, will come to mean much more to us than we could ever imagine... more on this later!)
We felt we might but in places like this the weather can turn in an instant. Reaching Nordkapp Kommune, ( the community of Nordkapp) it still looked hopeful, but we still had a long way to go. We knew that the North Cape tunnel can bring different weather on the other side, so it felt like an important landmark as we entered.
North Cape Tunnel ( Nordkapptunnelen) is one of the longest and the northernmost of the subsea road tunnels in Norway. The tunnel is 6.875 kilometres (4.272 mi) long and reaches a depth of 212 metres (696 ft) below sea level, it’s not unusual to have fog in the tunnel.. The tunnel has automatic anti-freezing doors which close the mouths of the tunnel in the winter to avoid the freezing of any leaking water. These gates open automatically when cars approach and are permanently open in the summer. Thankfully we didn’t need the doors and no fog was encountered mid tunnel.
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