 Jim: have you considered Lulu.com for your book? Publishers are very conservative beasts and I'm sure there's more that could be made available through self-publishing in this way.
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 I must say I'm a little surprised at the notion of night-time temperature of +7C. As I said earlier my only non-winter experience of Norway was a trip to Trollheimen, which is considerably further south (still south of Trondheim), in the first week of September, and I encountered overnight temperatures of -3 and -4 on several nights. I'd be assuming it'd be colder still further north?
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It might be further north, but it's not as high up, which is why it will be warmer. Sounds like you'll have a great trip! I buy gas for my primus from petrol stations in Norway.
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Again, many thanks to all. Zubald - the links are very useful - and inspiring! I've got clearance for three weeks off, hopefully going first three weeks in Sept. Possibly to Narvik after TBT, or Lofoten Islands. Does anyone have any comments on choice? Both sound good, perhaps a more stunning scenery in the latter? Anthony Dyer et al's book is useful for this - Connie Roos's does not mention it.
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Def. go to Lofoten!!! Much more scenic and worth a visit than Narvik.
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Thanks SS - very tempted, unless saved for another trip. What's it like getting to Lofoten from the TBT area? We have three weeks. Ironically, coming back three days later would make it £50 cheaper, but not good on domestic front...
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 Hi Rob I am going to trek Iceland and Norway next year, so this thread has been very useful for me also. So as not to go off thread, I would really like to ask you Rob about your time in Iceland. Could I do this by email? Dawn
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Hi Dawn, Happy to help! We had a brilliant time - really want to go back. email me at rob@dixon-a.freeserve.
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 "Lots of elks (what the Americans call moose)" I've heard that often and read it a lot but it really puzzles me. The European Elk more closely resembles the Red Deer than it does the Moose which is an awkward looking, great gawky hulk of a beast with a really big ugly head. Its antlers are more substantial too with large flattened palmate type processes rather than the slimmer more finely branched antlers of the Elk.
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Dawn, Not sure what happened to my last post - part of my address got chopped. Sorry if you've tried to contact me but try rob@dixon-a.freeserve.co.uk. Well, our tickets are booked, going for three and a half weeks - should be enough to explore a bit.
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I'm confused about the Elk and Moose posting - the animals I've seen in Norway are enormous and nothing like a red deer. Their antlers and massive and the animals are bigger than horses. They are really graceful when they run in their hoofy kind of way. My favourite sighting was when one swam past us!
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 "the animals I've seen in Norway are enormous and nothing like a red deer" Yes, that's right. The animals known as 'elk' in Europe are called 'moose' in North America; Alces Alces. Why Americans had to change a perfectly good name I'll never know. Anyway, now the name 'elk' was vacant in North America, so they gave it to an entirely different animal, the Wapiti Cervus elephus which is known as the Red deer in the UK
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Jim, thanks - interesting. Saw elk and moose in Yellowstone - and bison, too. Moose are amazing - lovely to watch swimming. We had elk, I think, sniffing our tent one night but my son was convinced it was a bear. I was not going to check! He kept his finger on the bear spray all night...
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