House On Wheels In Norway
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In August 2014, my family and I rented a trailer and went on a road trip to Scandinavia. Travelled Finland and Sweden, visited the capital of Norway, Oslo. In a few weeks, we've had almost 5,000 kilometers.
The first thing that hit us, we haven't seen a single accident during our journey. In Russia, on my way from Obninsk to Moscow (approximately 100 kilometres) I often see two or three accidents. There's no one here in 12 days. In addition, if the roads were wide enough in Finland and Sweden, the main roads in Oslo are relatively narrow, bipolar. Some sections had to be particularly careful: the trailer was a small vehicle, and in the capital of Norway road vehicles there was a good number.
But despite the dimensions of our " home on wheels " , we felt very comfortable even on the narrowest road. And largely because local drivers have something called driving culture. Let the city, as I thought, have a fairly saturated movement, but there's no road chaos, no one goes right-handed. Drivers respect each other. Nice.
To travel with your own home on wheels Scandinavia, and in particular Norway, is very comfortable. There's a great network of campings for these trips. There's even a special phone application that shows how many miles to the nearest parking lot, how many free spaces there are, you can see pictures of the camping. All the parking lots are well built and equipped: here, electricity, you're home!
Most often, Norway can be said to be a very dear country. Yeah, Scandinavia's a bad region. The prices there are fairly high, and the farther from Finland, the more noticeable. But it wasn't a surprise and therefore the journey didn't ruin.
Also from the " home-grown " , which is surprising in Norway by the Russian population, we have almost forgotten the possibility of drinking water from under the crane. You can open a plumbing crane, at least in a normal apartment, at a gas station, anywhere! The water is very clean. And it's delicious. The Norwegians themselves are very generous. There is a long-standing myth that the inhabitants of the northern “non-sleath” countries are furious and inviolable. Not in Norway!
