After a typical Scandinavian wonderful breakfast I hit the road further north. Again I have quite some kilometres to go, I hope to reach Alta today, the last bigger city some 240 kilometres south of the Cape. It gets colder and cloudy, soon the rain follows. After around 350 kilometres I cross the arctic circle and stop to take the obligatory foto. Not far from Rovaniemi, said to be Santa's home, I cross the border to Finnland, a few hundred kilometres on I enter Norway. This is the country of the indigenous Sami people, they are specialists in Reindeer breeding; it pays to be careful as the grey/brownish animals are well camouflaged on the grey/brownish roads and they tend to like just standing there gazing at you, not moving even when you use the horn.
The landscape reminds me of some deserted parts of the USA; long stretches of straight roads, hardly any civilisation. It rains more or less permanently, the temperature remains pretty cold at around 10 degree centigrade. After quite a few thousand kilometres of no real challenge in driving the road enters a small canyon that gives a pretty good impression of things to come along the Norwegian fjords. Lots of bends, up and down, terriffic surroundings, little traffic - this must be GT3 territory... Well not fully as noone up here drives fast, Scandinavian traffic fines are said to be pretty draconian so I remain somewhat defensive.
I arrive at around 21:00 pm in Alta, the world's northernmost city with more than 10.000 inhabitants. After enjoying a nice dinner (fish, what else?) I go to sleep. It doesn't really seem like night though, it's not really any darker than during the day.
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