I live in Finland, have driven around Norway and felt those tips relevant. You asked for an opinion of the most beautiful areas and I can say that my favorite are Vestland and Finnmark regions. They are very different and can't be compared. One very important thing on driving in Norway is to realize that it's very time consuming. There are a lot of narrow curvy roads, ferries etc. and the average speed will be very slow.
When we visit Norway during our vacation, we always drive to the furthest place as quickly as possible. Coming from the Netherlands we drove Kirkenes near the border of Russia! This is done in 4 days. Now we have 3 weeks to drive home. Visiting the NordKapp, The Lofoten, down Riksveg 17 along all the fjords with numerous ferries in between, around Trondheim, we go over the Troll Stig to Sognafjord and Geiranger. After that to the summer ski region, the Heidangervidda National Park and many gravel roads in Norway. These are “Tollways” over the Norwegian alms, with great scenery’s. We normally drive in our Jeep Wrangler with army trailer, packed with our gear. We never plan or make reservations. Ever day around 16.00 ours we start looking for a Hytte or Stuga, so we can sleep. These are vacationhouses on camping or are private owned. This mostly works 👍 We drive approximately 9000km on our roundtrip! Norway is a beautiful country with great scenery 😊
I’m from Northern Norway, and since I live in the capital, Oslo, I’ve been driving that stretch many, many times. My tips would vary quite widely, depending on what season of the year you would be driving in. The tips for driving in the winter, crossing mountain passes might be the most crucial ones, the ones for summer would be more practical for saving time and money, and miss out on any gems you might just drive by.
Small roads LOL, that actually happens to me in Scotland in 2005, I'm from Norway and I was taking my kids to a trip around the UK and started in Scotland, on our way down to England we followed TomTom's GPS and found ourselves in a valley with a narrow road that barely could take our car (Mercedes 190e station wagon), we barely got across a bridge but it was an awesome trip, the kid's loved it. GPS failure...Guess that happen's everywhere 🙂
It totally common to see sheep and livestock on the road (local smaller village roads) in Norway. Tho not near any cities or urban places or highways. Mostly out in the country side as farmer let them graze outside or up in the mountains (therefore the sheep at the reststop). It's common to see sheep, seldom goats, cows and horses out and about, loose in herds.
Living in Norway:don't be afraid... of heights, tunnels, narrow roads, snow, whatever😀 please make room, that the other cars behind you, can pass you. Don't only visit the Lofoten, nothern Norway is amazing elsewhere, too. And respect warning signs, put on good shoes and right clothing and remember. The weather can change fast..and so on😄
Norwegiens are some of the best drivers in the world. Cuz all the practis hour we need to have before we even can try to get the lisenc. I think 30 hours is obligaroric + practis on slippery road, driving at night, driving at higeway and long destination driving. Before you even can start practise you have to pass a teoretical test about what the signs meen, rouls and stuff like that.
The ferries are okay , but. If you encounter bad weather, they can really suck. It is really windy where I live, and to get to a large city. You have to do at least one ferry crossing. And oh man, I have seen more than one puking on those ferries. Because of the way the hull is, the ferry, they sway in a way that goes really slow and makes you sick fast. If it gets too bad though, they stop it. And most of them are electric by now by the way 👍
my husbands style of driving change, in Germany he is very aggressive and in Norway the opposite. He also said that it is very booooring driving in Germany.
And in regards to how we behave in traffic, this depends on the individual, setting and emotion state lol. Tho most of manage to behave, people can be assholes, some would even follow you, and attack you or go out of their car and start hammering your car, tho this isn't common normal behavior. Even my mom gets roadrage, tho it's more yelling and.swesrinf than any physical altercations... it's definitely a difference being local and someone from out of town.
Quality wise, our roads sucks compared to fellow European countries like Germany. Even a poor country like Albania has better roads than us no joke... And I say driving in Norway is quite boring, but depends on where in the country. I hate long distance driving, if by myself. I prever driving in the suburbs, tho I refuse to drive within Oslo where I've lived most of my adult life. I grew up outside the city so less stress driving there. I'd say the further out you get, let's say the smaller local roads, and not the bigger main roads or highways, are worse. Some even so narrow as in Scotland that you have to pull over to these specific sites along the road to be able to pass incoming cars. We have our own word for it in Norwegian as was the norm before wider roads and the highways came. Tho this is more common along the coast where the fjords and the amounts of mountains makes making wider roads difficult so ferries and tunnels are the standard. The hilly plains, deep forests of the Eastern part and the tundra up north doesn't cause the same issues...
I live in Finland, have driven around Norway and felt those tips relevant. You asked for an opinion of the most beautiful areas and I can say that my favorite are Vestland and Finnmark regions. They are very different and can't be compared. One very important thing on driving in Norway is to realize that it's very time consuming. There are a lot of narrow curvy roads, ferries etc. and the average speed will be very slow.
When we visit Norway during our vacation, we always drive to the furthest place as quickly as possible. Coming from the Netherlands we drove Kirkenes near the border of Russia! This is done in 4 days. Now we have 3 weeks to drive home. Visiting the NordKapp, The Lofoten, down Riksveg 17 along all the fjords with numerous ferries in between, around Trondheim, we go over the Troll Stig to Sognafjord and Geiranger. After that to the summer ski region, the Heidangervidda National Park and many gravel roads in Norway. These are “Tollways” over the Norwegian alms, with great scenery’s. We normally drive in our Jeep Wrangler with army trailer, packed with our gear. We never plan or make reservations. Ever day around 16.00 ours we start looking for a Hytte or Stuga, so we can sleep. These are vacationhouses on camping or are private owned. This mostly works 👍
We drive approximately 9000km on our roundtrip! Norway is a beautiful country with great scenery 😊
I’m from Northern Norway, and since I live in the capital, Oslo, I’ve been driving that stretch many, many times.
My tips would vary quite widely, depending on what season of the year you would be driving in. The tips for driving in the winter, crossing mountain passes might be the most crucial ones, the ones for summer would be more practical for saving time and money, and miss out on any gems you might just drive by.
Small roads LOL, that actually happens to me in Scotland in 2005, I'm from Norway and I was taking my kids to a trip around the UK and started in Scotland, on our way down to England we followed TomTom's GPS and found ourselves in a valley with a narrow road that barely could take our car (Mercedes 190e station wagon), we barely got across a bridge but it was an awesome trip, the kid's loved it. GPS failure...Guess that happen's everywhere 🙂
It totally common to see sheep and livestock on the road (local smaller village roads) in Norway. Tho not near any cities or urban places or highways. Mostly out in the country side as farmer let them graze outside or up in the mountains (therefore the sheep at the reststop). It's common to see sheep, seldom goats, cows and horses out and about, loose in herds.
Living in Norway:don't be afraid... of heights, tunnels, narrow roads, snow, whatever😀 please make room, that the other cars behind you, can pass you. Don't only visit the Lofoten, nothern Norway is amazing elsewhere, too. And respect warning signs, put on good shoes and right clothing and remember. The weather can change fast..and so on😄
yes we have snow in the winter and they cant change all the signs
Norwegiens are some of the best drivers in the world. Cuz all the practis hour we need to have before we even can try to get the lisenc. I think 30 hours is obligaroric + practis on slippery road, driving at night, driving at higeway and long destination driving. Before you even can start practise you have to pass a teoretical test about what the signs meen, rouls and stuff like that.
The ferries are okay , but. If you encounter bad weather, they can really suck. It is really windy where I live, and to get to a large city. You have to do at least one ferry crossing. And oh man, I have seen more than one puking on those ferries. Because of the way the hull is, the ferry, they sway in a way that goes really slow and makes you sick fast. If it gets too bad though, they stop it. And most of them are electric by now by the way 👍
my husbands style of driving change, in Germany he is very aggressive and in Norway the opposite. He also said that it is very booooring driving in Germany.
And in regards to how we behave in traffic, this depends on the individual, setting and emotion state lol. Tho most of manage to behave, people can be assholes, some would even follow you, and attack you or go out of their car and start hammering your car, tho this isn't common normal behavior. Even my mom gets roadrage, tho it's more yelling and.swesrinf than any physical altercations... it's definitely a difference being local and someone from out of town.
Quality wise, our roads sucks compared to fellow European countries like Germany. Even a poor country like Albania has better roads than us no joke... And I say driving in Norway is quite boring, but depends on where in the country. I hate long distance driving, if by myself. I prever driving in the suburbs, tho I refuse to drive within Oslo where I've lived most of my adult life. I grew up outside the city so less stress driving there. I'd say the further out you get, let's say the smaller local roads, and not the bigger main roads or highways, are worse. Some even so narrow as in Scotland that you have to pull over to these specific sites along the road to be able to pass incoming cars. We have our own word for it in Norwegian as was the norm before wider roads and the highways came. Tho this is more common along the coast where the fjords and the amounts of mountains makes making wider roads difficult so ferries and tunnels are the standard. The hilly plains, deep forests of the Eastern part and the tundra up north doesn't cause the same issues...
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