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National Cycle Routes

Route 8

Alta – Kirkenes: There’s something cool about riding to the Russian border. Russia extends 9000km east to west, through 11 time zones and I bet a lot of people don’t realise it shares a border with Norway and China! It just sounds like some faraway place really and so ending a bike ride there has a certain aura about it…

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