+++ Error: Redo from Start +++

Its a BASIC problem!

Too many sights to see in too little time so after 24 hours of thinking on it, I've decided to redo the entire route so that I can spend more time in Norway.

I've crunched the numbers and sketched another map of the route using myrouteapp that includes many of Norways National Tourist Routes. The main changes are that this route meanders a little more slowly through the south of Norway while still hitting the Fonna Glacier, Gerainger Fjord, Trollsteigen and the Atlantic Road. The northern leg hasn't changed much but now allows for a little more time in Lofoten. The return is still routed via Inari and Lapland in Finland but now after passing Rovaniemi (and Santas Village!) heads for the northwest coast and Tornio rather than heading south on the 78 towards Helsinki. Back in Sweden, I'm left with a long haul back along the Gulf of Bothnia to Stockholm and then home via Malmo.

It turns out to be roughly the same sort of distance that I started with (8700 kms) but adding a day or two means less pressure to mile munch and more time to take it all in.

Unfortunately with limited time of work available, and several long weekends planned in the UK with the Sealed Knot, something had to give and so the new route comes at the expense of having to drop Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland. I'll just have to save them for another time.

I've added a page called "References" which will collect the links to useful information sources in one place so that I (and anyone else who might be reading this) don't have to keep trawling through the posts to find them.

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