From Gothenburg to North Cape in three days. Seriously?

Come on guys, this web page is about travelling, not racing. While I understand that some people have not weeks of vacation for a Scandinavia trip, if the aim is just to get to North Cape in the shortest possible time, without looking at what's left and right of the road and choosing really the best route, why not simply take a flight to Hammerfest, get a rental car and drive to North Cape in three hours.

Scandinavia has so much to offer and the north cape is just a theoretical point on the map - yes it is the northernmost point in Europe that can be reached by public road, but if you want to get to the northernmost land point you need to walk anyway (something I am planning maybe for the coming summer).

Norway has spectacular landscapes both in the south (the fjord country) and in the north (Lofoten). Sweden at the other hand offers endless gravel riding, camping at lonely quiet lakes and is is the perfect place if you want to find relaxing camping spots with a campfire, fishing you own dinner. Same basically with Finland.

Remember that traveling is not about rushing from one place to the other as quickly as possible. It is about exploring and experiencing, about looking, hearing, tasting and smelling, about time to inhale atmospheres, about meeting people, something that I can't do if I need to cover 1.000km a day just to get to a certain point on the map!