Don't Skip This Route If You Come To Norway | Vanlife Norway

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When planning our road trip through Norway we had a couple of options when heading north from Trondheim towards Lofoten. We could either turn right and blast up the E6, or we could turn left and explore a route we hadn't even heard of before coming to Norway.
And today, we are forever thankful that we chose to turn left. This route is simply incredible.
Welcome to Kystriksveien.
❤️ Thanks for watching and we will catch up next time.
Nicola and Nigel
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[@torfinnskari]

Yours sea eagle's most likely come from Norway, there is/ have been a program for re introduce them to Scotland and Ireland, and they are collected from different areas along the Norwegian coast line, so maybe the eagle on the poster there are cousins to the ones you see in Ireland

[@TheTravellersCookeBook]

They are such beautiful birds …

[@frosty6960]

Great video! These kinds of walks are the absolute best for your body. If you walk on flat asphalt all your life, you will break something first step in the wild. These uneven surfaces improves your ancle strength and will make it less likely you hurt yourself. Your body has to do all the motions when climbing hillsides. Walking down is also very good exercise for joints.

[@TheTravellersCookeBook]

Thanks … yes a walk like this you certainly feel it in more muscles compared to a simple walk on the flats :)

[@glacieractivity]

To everyone watching - our two tour guides are not joking around. I am willing to say that the coastal road from Brønnøysund up to Bodø, then Lofoten, then Andøya, then Senja then Kvaløya is the most insanely beautiful road trip one can embark on. The wildest thing is - there is this progression going on, causing the traveller to think "Nothing can top this" and then Nordland is going to prove everyone wrong. Am not tooting my own horn here. I have professionally worked in the mountains of the Swiss Alps, the Brecon Beacons in Wales, the French Alps, the Himalayas, Nepal, and New Zealand (etc). There is something absurd about going North and having the lush green Birchforest at sea level (with a dropping treeline dropping while moving north just to further underscore the pure beauty of the Granit monolithic mountains growing straight out of the Nordic Seas. (Also, everyone knows that we Norwegians do not thank ourselves for this beauty: We know it was Slartibartfast who got that design prize - glory to him. Furthermore, as a geoscientist myself, we do in science have some other ideas about the formation of this landscape too, and none of them includes humans. For hikers like you (thumbs up) - one of the few claims to fame we Norwegians can put forward is the Freedom to Roam laws that got written into the constitution already in 1957 (before that nobody cared, I guess). And perhaps we also can claim a bit of the universal architectural sensibility and beauty that villagers developed in different forms all around the North Atlantic over the Millennia. And of course, our generations of old who started to build these roads in the first place with hand-power back in the day. Jokes asides, I had worked extensively deep inside the European Alps, New Zealand, Wales and the Himalayas before I visited my own country north of Trondheim. I thought I had seen it all - I had grown up in Jotunheimen after all (for British friends, the playground of the highest peaks and glaciers in Northern Europe, that your countryman William Cecil Slingsby explored extensively in the 19th century. (Since you are falling in love with the Norwegian landscape, I can HIGHLY recommend his book: "Norway, the Northern Playground". It is absolutely fantastic, and my feeling is that it is undeservedly unknown in the UK. We Norwegians have paid respect to his legacy by naming "Slingsbybreen" (Slingsby's glacier) and Slingsbytind (Slingsby's Peak). The latter is significant - only 3 of the 228 peaks above 2000 meters in Norway (6562 ft) are named after a person. Slingsby is obviously the only foreigner that has that honour. I have even been lucky enough to have read Slingsby's handwritten climbing route directions (I am not going to tell you where that book is, I am not sure that is public knowledge) - and my hands were literally shaking since I had climbed several of his routes when I was young and promising (now I am just "AND") I want to add one more thing, as a heads up: The outer Helegaland road has many ferries - and during peak holidays tempers can run high as you may wait in line, watching the ferry return both 2, 3 and 4 times before you are first in the queue. Patience and fresh groceries to make a good and long-lasting lunch is advisable to have stocked in the car. Remember to plan for this. A map may indicate that you can move at an average speed of 50 mph/80 kmh. No - nonononono. If you want anything near that speed you have to drive E6 over Saltfjellet. A final tip (maybe more for people who drive their car not a camper van, since I am unsure about the prices post-C-19) - drive the outer coastal route North to Kvaløya and then turn back to Tromsø and take "Hurtigruten" back to Trondheim. This used to be a fantastic bang for the buck "grand tour" since you now got to see the scenery from two perspectives. Let me finish with a quote from my dear old Swedish friend (who spent years working in the Himalayas while also being somewhat of a hippie) after doing this trip up the coast of Helgeland: (I translate this adlib from Swedish). "Right, now I get why you do not need (insert any controlled substance) - you wake up in a reality that bends your brain every single morning, brother". 25 years later I still think that the Norwegian tourist office should use that quote in a campaign.

[@LeNaInLoVe]

this.... deserves a big 🤗! from Arctic Lo-Ve Islands, Norway...🥰

[@TheTravellersCookeBook]

What an incredible description … ‘Don’t Do Drugs … Do Norway’ :)

[@kristian6674]

Yall will be famous soon!

[@TheTravellersCookeBook]

Hehe ..

[@BelltexTu]

Congratulations. You now have over 1,000 subscribers. 👋💯As the channel becomes more well-known, this figure will increase. Well done! ❤

[@TheTravellersCookeBook]

Thank you very much!

[@Youtube_Stole_My_Handle_Too]

You've got the right spirit. Exploring Norway is best done by spontaneously choosing on your own on a crossing-to-crossing basis.

[@TheTravellersCookeBook]

We have loved travelling slowly .. opens up a different day to the one we thought we had planned :)

[@peacefulminimalist2028]

A small foss - not fossen :) Fossen means "the foss.". So exciting to watch your travels.

[@TheTravellersCookeBook]

Oops … sorry about that :) Norway continues to amaze us :)

[@peacefulminimalist2028]

@@TheTravellersCookeBook And this Norwegian here keeps being amazed at how many peaks you’ve climbed in a few weeks! Even done the research to know the names of every mountain, nook and cranny - even if it sounds funny at times 😂

[@Luredreier]

​@@TheTravellersCookeBookEssentially the "en" suffix on Norwegian words means "the".

[@LeNaInLoVe]

Oh my, I wish you'd take a chance on Dønnamannen, Ibut it's best that it's at least clear weather, no rain when doing it. And YES, Helgeland and the coastal route is AMAZING! So... Question; are you travelling now, or are you done with your travel? If you travel RT, when you reach Vesterålen, shout out, and I can show you some sights 😀 Btw, Petter Dass, was my forfather, and perhaps now, 1000 others 😜

[@TheTravellersCookeBook]

Ha one for the next time we are on the area :)

[@CM-ey7nq]

The only time I've really felt in danger from some kind of a wild animal in Norway was that one time when I came out of the woods and suddenly found myself 3 meters from a very aggressive bull moose in heat. Fortunaly I had skis on, and was less than half a meter away from a pretty darned steep, very long and yet somewhat smooth downward mountain side. That was the day I became grateful for the fact that moose can't really ski. They can swim, they can run, they can perform very well as snowplows, some of them can even choose to sneak up on you at times for whatever nefarious reason, but they don't do downhill skiing all *that* well.

[@TheTravellersCookeBook]

Let’s hope they don’t get skiing lessons for Christmas :)

[@buza1300]

😎💙👍

[@TheTravellersCookeBook]

It’s a stunning place

[@Luredreier]

By the way, it's not Hegland but Hegeland. The "e" is a separate syllable. Unlike English we don't treat the "e" at the end of words as silent.

[@TheTravellersCookeBook]

I’m pretty sure we only got 10% of the pronunciations right :)

[@Luredreier]

​​@@TheTravellersCookeBookDamned, wrote that wrong myself, "Helgeland" But yeah, there's a "e" at the end. But "Helge" is a Norwegian male first name meaning something like "Holy" or "Blessed". And "Helgeland" essentially means the land belonging to Helge or something to that effect... Edit: I didn't catch my error, although I probably should, because "Hege" is also a Norwegian name, a female first name in this case).

[@Luredreier]

​@@TheTravellersCookeBookOh, you two are doing better then that, don't worry. But yeah, you've butchered a few names here and there.

[@IANREA]

Where’s the link for the dark web groans😂♥️

[@TheTravellersCookeBook]

Haha … must have lost that link down the back of the sofa :)

[@Traslan]

Norwegian easy 😂😂😂

[@TheTravellersCookeBook]

:)