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Offline Asmith61

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Re: Touring in Artic.
« Reply #40 on: August 03, 2017, 16:55:51 »
Loving this keep em coming fantastic photos and blog  :thumb:

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Re: Touring in Artic.
« Reply #41 on: August 03, 2017, 23:55:16 »
Hi.
we left Lofoten a couple of days ago and went to Narvik. Not so many Pictures of this leg but the scenery is much of the same as you have seen. we stayed in Narvik for two days visiting relatives and for the WW2  Museum, there was a great Battle in Narvik were many British soldiers fought With the Norwegians and drove the Nazi's out of Narvik. But sadly Our allies where called to Normandie and Narvik where again on Nazi`s hands. I don't now if this is interesting but the Museum in Narvik is Worth a stop if you are coming this way.
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Re: Touring in Artic.
« Reply #42 on: August 04, 2017, 05:13:32 »
Great! I viewed this at 5am (before doing the milking). I'm counting the days to my turn :lala:
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Re: Touring in Artic.
« Reply #43 on: August 04, 2017, 08:47:59 »
Wow! fantastic pictures, what a trip

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Re: Touring in Artic.
« Reply #44 on: August 04, 2017, 20:12:00 »
hi. today we are touring below the artic circle.
we started in Fauske above the artic circle and when we took the ferry Jektvik - Kilboghamn we passed the artic circle and there is now more midnight sun. so there are maybe only 23 hours daylight. we stopped for the day in Aldersund because we wanted to save the hole day tomorrow to the rest of this crazy beautiful area. for those of you that are going to travel in this part of Norway, take your time, don't hurry!
have to mention that we also passed the famous Saltstraumen, on of the worlds strongest tide streams (v-strom).
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Re: Touring in Artic.
« Reply #45 on: August 05, 2017, 11:20:33 »
I watched the Saltstraumen whirlpools on You tube - most impressive. Did you get to see the northern lights?
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Re: Touring in Artic.
« Reply #46 on: August 05, 2017, 11:44:40 »
We have to wait for the winter to see the Northern light

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Re: Touring in Artic.
« Reply #47 on: August 05, 2017, 19:54:33 »
well below the artic circle the weather is fantastic, so even if the midnight sun is no longer present I don't think there will be any dark tonight :). we started today in Aldersund and 3 Ferry's later we stoped in Brønnøysund.
 I can`t explain the beauty of the landscape we are passing but I have some videos that seems that the format is wrong, maybe I can fix it when I am back home. I will then show you the videos.

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Re: Touring in Artic.
« Reply #48 on: August 06, 2017, 15:29:40 »
Looking forward to the videos, Save some good weather for me,
It looks like I'll have to return at Christmas to see the northern lights  :grin:
The photos are (I'm running out of adjectives) stunning. Thank you.
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Re: Touring in Artic.
« Reply #49 on: August 12, 2017, 10:21:37 »
Great trip,  great photos! 
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Re: Touring in Artic.
« Reply #50 on: August 13, 2017, 09:59:25 »
First post on here in quite a while!

We had a chat near Jektvik - I was on the xt1200

Great pics - I Hope your trip continued in the same fashion!

My pic dump will be going on the YST forum soonish