Wednesday, September 20, 2006

Knivskjellodden

It doesn’t roll off the tongue very easily but that's the name of the most northerly point in mainland Europe, though most people have heard of the more famous point nearby - The North Cape (Though there is a further argument that it's not even the most northerly point because it is technically located on an island off Norway connected by a tunnel)

Anyway it looks an interesting place and it can probably be done with a reasonable exploration of Norway in around 2 weeks. Ideally June-August would be the time to go and see the midnight sun at the same time. Norway is another place that I promised I would return to after going there on a geography field trip in 2001. We camped rough near a village called Gjerde and spent most of the day sitting in the sun or walking on glaciers.

Though holiday time is already starting to look very stretched next year as a trip to Spain with the Rangers is planned and I couldn't live without my annual pilgrimage of a week in Greece and a former USSR trip thrown in there.

And if you wanted to know where the most northerly Subway sandwich shop (Alta) or McDonalds is (Rovaniemi), here it is
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_world's_most_northern

1 Comments:

At 5:59 AM, Blogger -=EviL Ras=- said...

There's only one thing for it..

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,5-2004591303,00.html

 

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