standard accident form
 

Same place - your insurance company. Europe and Scandinavia use these forms - where you fill out all the details of the incident, ticking boxes and marking point of impact on little drawings, with a rough map of the situation. Insurance companies use these to assess blame and compensation.
Suprised you don't have them in the UK, they are international, and you can fill it out if you have an english language one, as can the nitwit who knocked you over using their version to translate.
These forms are not mandatory, just very useful if you have cause to use one.
Enough gloom, your route plan looks very well thought out, Norway is best on the roads less travelled, just don't rush. No gaurantees about the weather, you take your chances along with the rest of us. Rain gear and wool underwear for the high areas and shitty weather, even midsommer can be a challenge in one area, and lovely weather in the next valley.
Your boat is very noisy, containers squeeking and banging against eachother, take earplugs. One time we had really bad weather, rolling all over the North Sea, I never left my bunk, but the bike was professionally secured, ask the crew for help.

Have a great trip

Peter, in Oslo

Hello everyone,

I don't mean to be a troll and highjack this discussion, but I am going on a similar trip (mid June - mid July) and there is a lot of good info in here.

I really hope and look forward to bump into some of you up there!

Boat booked.

I am in the final stages of planning. Going from Immingham (Hull, UK) to Brevik in Norway by DFDS freigh ferry. Frem Brevick we will drive to Stavanger.

I am returning via Gotherburg to Keil and drive to Amsterdam to take a passenger ferry to Newcastle.

Stavanger to Bergen It looks lilthe there are several ferry crossings. Do I have to book them in advance? Will that segment take a day to do?

Badrakumar

It depends on your route sir. If you drive route E39, the main route between those cities there is two ferry crossings namelly Halhjem to Sandvikvåg and another Arsvågen to Mortavika.
It will take approx 4-5 hours.
As you can see on the map there are many other roads that can lead you the same destination with several other ferry crossings.
Anyway ferries like that doesnt have to be prebooked.

Thanks Snakeboy for the information. It is very helpful.

Thanks everybody.
We did the Norway trip. The information given by all of you was very useful. I will share my experience in the coming posts one by one to make it useful for other going to Norway.

I thank all the HUBB members for all the guidance once again.

After visiting the Stave Church in Notodden we drove towards Stavanger. On the way we took a deviation to go to Lysebotn via FV 500. It is a spectacular rout for motorcyclists. Near Lysebotn we encountered 27 hairpin bends with in 6kms. Each bend was coming up in a gap of 50 to 75 meters. 25th bend was inside a tunnel. We spent that night there. The next petrole station is in Forsand

Remember there are no frequent ferries from there to Forsand. The last ferry leave at around 6pm. Advance booking is useful. It is worth all the trouble to go to Lysebotn. It is a beautiful spot at one end to Lysefjord. To understand FV 500 read the link below

Lysevegen

and watch this youtube video

Fv500 - Lysebotn - The Lonely Motorcyclist - YouTube

After visiting the Stave Church in Notodden we drove towards Stavanger. On the way we took a deviation to go to Lysebotn via FV 500. It is a spectacular rout for motorcyclists. Near Lysebotn we encountered 27 hairpin bends with in 6kms. Each bend was coming up in a gap of 50 to 75 meters. 25th bend was inside a tunnel. We spent that night there.

Remember there are no frequent ferries from there to Forsand. The last ferry leave at around 6pm. Advance booking is useful. It is worth all the trouble to go to Lysebotn. It is a beautiful spot at one end to Lysefjord. To understand FV 500 read the link below

Lysevegen

and watch this youtube video

Fv500 - Lysebotn - The Lonely Motorcyclist - YouTube

These cairns were built by people who were working on the construction of Tjodan Hydro-electric project. Who knows why?

Most Norwegians I met would call the stone cairns "Troll houses", it must be almost a right of passage to build them.

Did you do the walk upto the Pulpit Rock which overlooks the Lysefjord? Again a spectacular sight - just one of many when you visit Norway though.

Yes we did. Climbed Prekistolen. Unfortunately it rained when I reached the top.

After Prekistolen we drove to Bergen.

That's a shame about the weather, when I visited I got clear skies and could look across the fjord to the spot we wild camped the night before with a couple of German guys on ex German military police bikes - thought we were going to get nicked when they turned up. Great night getting pissed and looking up to the Pulpit Rock and along the fjord.

The walk/climb upto the Rock was amazing with thousands of Norwegians all wanting to get there as well - plenty of the Troll Houses on the way up as well.

Also did the run down to Lysebotn and the 27 bends!! Stopped to watch a bunch of guys base jumping and landing in the campsite at the bottom - and missed the ferry by a bees dick.

A taste of Norwagean pricing. £1 = NoK 9. Soup £10, Beer 250ml £5. Obviously it is not the food capital.

what was the Brevik - Immingham ferry like?

Also, thinking of going to Norway myself this summer .... is it feasible to get to the Bergen and up to the Arctic, taking in the sights in a week?

Many thanks

Andy