TRØNDELAG (VG) The prices of food and fuel are skyrocketing. Tourists turn their money, but some have developed a taste for a Norwegian petrol station special.
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Gaetan Muller and his family stop at Nordlandsporten in Grane, the arch that separates southern and northern Norway. They have driven from Belgium to Lofoten. Now they are on their way down.
Here you can spend the night in the car park with a camping car for NOK 130 a night.
When VG dropped in, they were getting ready for an aperitif. Chips and beer – brought from Belgium.
– Alcohol is so expensive in Norway, says Muller.
–The family has long since accepted that this year’s holiday will be a hoot. That’s just the way it is, says Muller. First and foremost, it is diesel that eats up money on trips.
– In three weeks we have spent between NOK 15,000 and 20,000. It is much.
Almost double the price of diesel
– There is something crazy, says Svein Cato Jacobsen.
Helgelendingen is on his way north in a motorhome after visiting family in Eastern Norway. VG meets him at Shell Verdal.
He puts the pump in and sees the number on the screen increase. NOK 1,457 poorer, he is ready for the leg home.
– The fuel price has doubled since we started driving.
–They bought the car in 2011, when the diesel price, according to Statistics Norway, was down to 12.69. When he turns Friday afternoon, it costs 24.59.
At the same time, food prices have skyrocketed, just like electricity. Food prices also rose 5.6 per cent from June 2021 to June 2022.
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Cycling Norway lengthwise
Others don’t have to think about diesel. Just south of Namsos, VG’s photographer will capture the German pensioner Bernd Eckstein. He has cycled from Germany to the North Cape. Now he is on his way home.
–While the inattentive VG photographer takes two steps backwards, past his wrongly parked motorhome, he overtakes two Swiss at full speed on a tandem bicycle.
The couple’s names are Stefan and Angelika Graber. VG finds them again during a rest break at the nearby bus stop.
– It’s a bit heavy, says Angelika about the cycle trip with the finish line in Tromsø.
– Especially with all the bags, but you get used to it, says Stefan.
–Tandem cycling up Norway is still absolutely excellent, they explain. They can enjoy the landscape, chat together and also save on fuel.
They say the holiday will be relatively cheap. Mostly they set up tents in the wilderness and cook themselves.
Soup in bags with couscous has become a classic, but Norwegian petrol stations offer the occasional temptation on the road.
– We like “the cheese sausage with bacon”, says Angelika with a Swiss German accent.
– And everything with cinnamon. Cinnamon knot and cinnamon bun, says Graber.
VG’s research has shown that a cinnamon roll can quickly cost NOK 50 this summer.
– Oh my God
Whether you need diesel or not, there are certain things the hero cannot do without. And Jens Gartner needs a lot of food.
The German walks the length of Norway – from Lindesnes to Nordkapp. He is four months old when VG meets him.
– You save a lot of money on petrol?
– No, no, no, I’m not saving any money. Norway is so expensive. Oh my God. It’s so expensive. Haha!
– I paid 40 kroner for a chocolate I would have paid 10 kroner for in Germany.
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