Monday, 11 August 2008

Proposed route for Team-PIPE

Day 1: Copenhagen, Denmark > Lillehammer, Norway.


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Day 2: We have a choice, go straight for Umea, Sweden (starting point of day 4) or take the long route and take in the "trolls ladder" near Trollstigen and then on to somewhere like Kristiansund, Norway.


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Day 3: Where ever we end up on Day 2 > Umeå, Sweden


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Day 4: Is a choice of catching the ferry across the Baltic and then drive to Kuopio, Finland. Or take the costal road and drive all the way.
Yep, we're driving.


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Day 5: Kuopio > Helsinki, Finland.


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Whilst the millages covered don't look to huge per day, the Scandinavian countries have some pretty strict speed limits and I'm guessing we'll be stuck at 30~35MPH for most of this trip. Add in the fact that we have to drive to the Start of the event in Copenhagen from the UK and then we have opted to bring our car back to the UK, it's going to be a bit of a trip.
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The Valhalla Run

In Norse mythology, those who fell gloriously in battle passed on to a magnificent place called Valhalla. In bangerese we call that a scrapyard. If Valhalla has a car park, we're sure to be adding to it before this route is run.
Valhalla Run is StreetSafari's 5th European Banger Rally.
We've gone in every other direction: East through Europe; South to Africa; West to America.

Nowhere to go now but North...



The event starts in Copenhagen on the 18th of August.

We cross into Sweden, and then on to Norway to do the impressive Trollstigen (Troll Ladder), before a night in Kristiansund.
For anyone dipping their toes in the various seas and oceans around the world, this is your chance to see the Arctic Ocean.

From Kristiansund we travel all the way to Umea on the Baltic Sea, cross by ferry to Korsholm and then head towards Helsinki for the final night, 22nd August.
The distance is around 1,700 miles, through terrain unlike most people have ever seen before.

This is more different than any other StreetSafari event to date. You can also bet it's more desolate than the other European countries we visit. Norway has less than 5m people in a country nearly 50% bigger than the UK!