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Great to see you arrived home ok. Enjoyed reading about the trip. Given me some ideas for a jaunt in 2019 although my old Dee will be approaching 200k miles by then, so perhaps that would be tempting fate.2005, TDV6 S, Auto, 190k miles, owned from new, V8 Brake Upgrade, Nancom Evo, RLD protector, BAS EGR blanking & Remap, separate ATF cooler, changing all the fluids ahead of time.
10th Jul 2018 7:43 am
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Sheâll love it. No reason why not, just think what youâd need to do is worst case happens. Make sure you get the best recovery cover, cheap is deffo not best. The more time you see âunlimitedâ in the details the better, it would get very expensive very quickly without decent cover. Hopefully you wonât use it but thatâs what insurance is for.
10th Jul 2018 8:07 am
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Welcome back and good to see a fellow Frexinet fan. SWMBO quaff of choice
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Del that was a fantastic road trip to follow. Glympse made it more enjoyable, but the pics and your write up just kept me looking for more the next morning. Better than last years fiasco. Thank your SWMBO for letting it happen for us. Mantec sump guard.
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10th Jul 2018 4:31 pm
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Great pics as usual and looked like a nice Jant -------------------------------------------------
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10th Jul 2018 6:04 pm
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Parky63 wrote:
Welcome back and good to see a fellow Frexinet fan. SWMBO quaff of choice
David
Especially at Channel Tunnel prices, âŹ5 a bottle.
11th Jul 2018 8:00 am
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biskit wrote:
Better than last years fiasco.:
I was going to go to near where all that happened and stay in Harstad, where sheâd have ended up. Glad I didnât though, wild campervanning at Batterie Dietl was one of the highlights of the trip.
But even there the cruise ships were stalking me!!
11th Jul 2018 8:03 am
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Was asked by PM about costs, thought nothing here I wouldnât say in open forum so fill yer boots if anyone else is interested/mad enough/needing to find themselves/experience the Arctic in summer. Any detailed questions, fire away.
Not cheap! Food is really expensive, prob 3 times what weâd pay. Also sometimes the supermarket prices are on LCD displays in a row above or below lots of items so difficult to know what stuff costs as itâs all in local lingo. I can work out some of the Swedish but none of the Finnish. Forget buying booze there, thatâs something youâre much cheaper taking with you. Also a lot more pre-packaged food cf fresh, well compared with UK. I took a lot of food with me, thinking of wild camping, but brought most of it back as I stayed a lot more in hotels so main meal was breakfast.
Hotels varied from ÂŁ60 to ÂŁ110, getting more expensive generally further north. Plus I earned enough Scandic points for 2 free nights at the end of the trip.
Wild camping is pretty straight forward, find a place and spray up for bugs. Lots and lots and lots of places to camp, right by lakes or rivers or the sea, itâs a case of seek and yea shall find. Camping in campsites, lots of them and prob ~ÂŁ15 a night for one with car and tent, more with more peeps. I used mostly hotels mainly because itâs nice to get a good nights sleep and breakfast, plus gets away from the temptation to keep going to find the ârightâ spot. Also helps with the 24/24 daylight, which can really mess with your mind. One night I woke up and was getting ready to get up then noticed it was 2:25am.
Fuel was a big cost. You can work out where is the cheapest ahead of time country wise, ie fuel up to Germany where itâs cheapest, stock up leaving Germany, leaving Denmark, enough to get to Finland, and stock up before Norway. But even in my 2 weeks fuel prices varied massively in Sweden as I came back at the start of a holiday (I think) and the really cheap stations Iâd clocked on the way up were up to expensive level, indeed as was virtually everywhere. Itâs a case of fill up when you see cheap stuff, especially in Norway where prices vary massively. I had tanked up to Arjeplog in Sweden on the way back but passed a Circle K station with diesel at much cheapness (cheaper than I would see in Sweden) so tanked up there. German fuel prices are available live through 1-2-3 Tanken app, Sweden through some websites, as Denmark, and Finland through the Fuel Fellows app. No data for Norway anywhere, plus that can vary on a daily basis and through the day.
Road trips to Scandinavia are expensive, purely due to the distances involved and the costs of food & accomodation, but those can be kept to a minimum. Using a Halifax Clarity card saved me prob ÂŁ80 (2/3 tank of fuel) as no commission and good rated. You can go there via Baltics, big variability in ferry to Helsinki crossings but slow ones usually pretty cheap, plus cheap Polish and Estonian fuel. And hotels are cheap. But itâs 400 miles more driving.
Count on 4 days driving, 3 if really pushing it with two drivers, to get to near the top, the best bits. Just a thought but itâs could work one driving the car up & the rest flying up & RVing up there. Would be via Oslo or Helsinki but do-able.
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that was a fantastic road trip to follow. Glympse made it more enjoyable, but the pics and your write up just kept me looking for more the next morning. Better than last years fiasco. 
Thank your SWMBO for letting it happen for us. 
