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	Norway June 2002 - BIG Trip… Return to JRG Home Page... *UPDATED - click on map “Photo Albums” to view additional, larger photos...UPDATED If you want to view the new Photo Albums only, then click here...

We took a trip to Norway in June 2002 to tour the country with our good Norwegian friends (of 45 years). So we had some “expert” tour guides.
As part of our trip planning, we jointly developed a day-by-day itinerary document for the trip. That document, updated with actual pictures from the trip, formed the basis for these web pages.
We covered a great deal of the Norwegian West & Northern coast, both by car, ferry boat and Coastal Express (cruise ship). We drove back from far northern Norway (Kirkenes) thru Finland and Sweden, visiting Stockholm for three days and then back to Asker (suburb of Oslo) before returning to Boston…. The trip cover over 5000 km by car and 1000 km by ferry and Coastal Express ship.

Trip Itinerary:
June 8 – 65^th Birthday grilling party, Asker, Norway
June 10 – Eidsvoll – Hamar – Lillehammer
June 11 – Trondheim
June 12 – Torghatten – 7 Sisters Mtns
June 13 – Arctic Circle – Svartisen Glacier
June 14 – Saltstraumenmaelstrom – Skutvik
June 15 –Lofoten Is.– Svolvaer– Kabelvag– Henningsvaer
June 16 – Ballstad– Nusfjord– Flakstad – Sund –Å
June 17 – Ballstad – Borg – Borkenes
June 18_19 – Hurtigruta Ship – Tromso – Honningsvag
June 20 – Kirkenes – Russian border – Bugoynes
June 21 – Karasjok Sami Parliment – drive to Alta
June 22 – Alta Rock Carvings – Kautokeino
June 23_ 24 – Pajala – Lovanger, Sweden
June 25 – Soderhamn, Sweden
June 25pm, 26, 27 – Stockholm, Sweden
June 28 Stockholm-to-Asker, Norway return trip

You can click on any trip-day above to view pictures from that day/place. You can also just click on any town/place on the map with links to the same pictures - try it...

We have included many web links in the daily itinerary pages if you have some interest in a particular area.
Editors Note: check out the Lofoten Islands and Stockholm in particular…

General Norwegian sightseeing Info…
http://www.norway.com/
http://www.norway.org/
Current Norwegian Weather...

Technical Notes:
This web site was originally developed using MicroSoft FrontPage. Subsequently, it was “imported” into NetObjects Fusion 7.5/8.0 which is a web site development tool. The Norway web pages are constructed of approximately 200 pictures (.jpg's), each about 30-50 Kb in size. The smaller file size allow the pictures to download faster over telephone modems. It was a compromise between picture quality and file size. In addition, each day of the trip itinerary is a separate web page (again making it download faster).
I recently developed a technique for linking the “PicasaWeb Albums” web site to my web pages. This technique allows me to display higher resolution photos in a “Slideshow/Album” format easily. Therefore, I reviewed the 1100+ digital photos I took during or trip and selected some 400 photos to display in five separate “Photo Albums”...

Any comments and/or questions can be sent to me.
Last Updated on May 15, 2007