Re: FF2: Filling in the Suburbs
Posted: 19 Feb 2024 23:13
Alright, in this set we're exiting the Varanger peninsula and heading for Kirkenes.
First, a final three shots from Vardo. I just checked out the menu for the ABC Thai restaurant in Vardo on Restaurant Guru and found they offer an insane variety of alcohol - seemingly hundreds of different beers from all over the world, if I understand what I'm seeing. Well, what else are you going to do in Vardo while you contemplate whether or not to leave before something unpleasant happens?
Well, that's it for Vardo. Time to teleport to Vadso...
...specifically to the Netto supermarket car park, where that car is still burning merrily as we pick up some Used Plastics for Kirkenes.
Leaving Vadso and heading westwards in the general direction of Tana bru.
Back through rolling farmland.
This is Annijoki. Grimstunga for coffee and cake? Sounds good, and only 4km to the right. Sorry, can't go there, it's the XXXXXs, you know.
Crossing the river.
Nesseby.
Varangerbotn. We take the third exit but get immediately distracted by a 'secret road' leading east once again.
The secret road passes through houses, and there's also a pedestrian to look out for.
Checking out the view of Varangerbotn shortly before getting back to the road we were just on and trekking back to the roundabout again.
Right, we're back on the 'Kirkenes road', otherwise known as the E6. This road starts out in Trelleborg, south Sweden, heads up to Oslo, and then continues all the way up through Norway to Kirkenes, a journey of 3, 056 km. It's been a constant companion during this final part of the tour, and we are about to reach its end.
A low-flying turboprop buzzes overhead. We must be near Kirkenes Airport.
And there it is.
The wind must have changed - it's taking off in the other direction now.
Okay then! Kirkenes just up ahead!
We've arrived.
We're delivering to Kirkenes' port, from where ferries make the long crossing of the Barents Sea to Svalbard.
But we're STILL not quite ready to leave mainland Norway behind yet, so we'll leave this here.
Next time we have a date with one of, if not THE, most terrifying jobsite access roads ProMods have ever created - the route to a Nordic Mining quarry next to the Borisoglebskiy Dam
Cheers! Krigl
First, a final three shots from Vardo. I just checked out the menu for the ABC Thai restaurant in Vardo on Restaurant Guru and found they offer an insane variety of alcohol - seemingly hundreds of different beers from all over the world, if I understand what I'm seeing. Well, what else are you going to do in Vardo while you contemplate whether or not to leave before something unpleasant happens?
Well, that's it for Vardo. Time to teleport to Vadso...
...specifically to the Netto supermarket car park, where that car is still burning merrily as we pick up some Used Plastics for Kirkenes.
Leaving Vadso and heading westwards in the general direction of Tana bru.
Back through rolling farmland.
This is Annijoki. Grimstunga for coffee and cake? Sounds good, and only 4km to the right. Sorry, can't go there, it's the XXXXXs, you know.
Crossing the river.
Nesseby.
Varangerbotn. We take the third exit but get immediately distracted by a 'secret road' leading east once again.
The secret road passes through houses, and there's also a pedestrian to look out for.
Checking out the view of Varangerbotn shortly before getting back to the road we were just on and trekking back to the roundabout again.
Right, we're back on the 'Kirkenes road', otherwise known as the E6. This road starts out in Trelleborg, south Sweden, heads up to Oslo, and then continues all the way up through Norway to Kirkenes, a journey of 3, 056 km. It's been a constant companion during this final part of the tour, and we are about to reach its end.
A low-flying turboprop buzzes overhead. We must be near Kirkenes Airport.
And there it is.
The wind must have changed - it's taking off in the other direction now.
Okay then! Kirkenes just up ahead!
We've arrived.
We're delivering to Kirkenes' port, from where ferries make the long crossing of the Barents Sea to Svalbard.
But we're STILL not quite ready to leave mainland Norway behind yet, so we'll leave this here.
Next time we have a date with one of, if not THE, most terrifying jobsite access roads ProMods have ever created - the route to a Nordic Mining quarry next to the Borisoglebskiy Dam
Cheers! Krigl